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| Probably DHCP circular routing by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 01/09/2012, 8:21am PST | ||||
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| Now, you're getting your Internet connection coming out of a router, I guess. Doesn't it have multiple Ethernet ports? Oh, it's that it's too far away to run two or three cables to it, and you do have cables on the PC and the XBox. Okay, you either need a splitter (Radio shack might have one, it should be about $3, the price of a phone splitter but they will charge you out the ass for it, of course) or you need a hub. As the other guy said, you want it as close to a switch as you can rather than a router, you just want it to pass signals through, no processing and nothing done. If it is a router it will probably do DHCP which means it will create a 10.xxx.xxx.yyy or 192.168.xxx.yyy connection for everything connected to it. If both are using "Network 10" or both are using "192.168", make sure the first 10.xxx or first 192.168.xxx number is different on each router, e.g. one can be 10.0 and the other can be 10.1 or 10.1 and 10.2, or 192.168.0 and 192.168.1 etc, but they MUST NOT both be the same subnetwork, e.g. both MUST NOT be 10.0 or both 10.1 or both 192.168.0, or both .1. I think it causes problems because of "circular routing" in which each thinks the other is already connected to its network instead of passing it on to the other.
I've run double-routed DHCP'd networks fine as long as both have different network numbers so the packets correctly flow up to the next and down from the parent. I was testing a really inexpensive 100 megabit wireless router from Tenda, was $19, and Tenda also makes nice wireless-N USB adapters for the ridiculously low price of $9, also 100mbit), had it hooked up wired to the other router, I think it was a Netsys that the wireless part had failed. So the Netsys talks to the cable modem, which assigns it a regular number on the internet, and the Netsys uses DHCP to assign the Tenda a number like 10.0.0.100 while assigning itself the gateway address 10.0.0.1. Then the Tenda assigns all of the wireless devices connected to it numbers like 10.1.0.100 through 110 or so while assigning itself the gateway address 10.1.0.1 Worked fine. When I moved the Tenda over to the main connection (removing the Netsys with the failed transmitter) it continued to work perfectly, just using the same 10.1 network. If you can get the nearest router to turn off DHCP that might help. Otherwise just make sure both are using different network prefixes. |
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I have one ethernet cable and want to hook up my PC and 360 to it. by 12/30/2011, 12:49am PST  Re: I have one ethernet cable and want to hook up my PC and 360 to it. by 12/30/2011, 11:11am PST Using a proper switch just makes the 360 disconnect immediately NT by 01/08/2012, 11:28pm PST Diagram this shit NT by 01/09/2012, 12:33am PST I think I just got a bad switch, it was like 12 bucks by 01/09/2012, 2:12am PST You know, you can buy a 3 foot cable for under 6 bucks. Or less on eBay NT by 01/09/2012, 7:54am PST I'm like two floors away from the router if doing another run was easy NT by 01/09/2012, 9:41am PST Probably DHCP circular routing by 01/09/2012, 8:21am PST It's happening with hubs, switches, and routers so I don't think it's that. by 01/09/2012, 9:48am PST Re: It's happening with hubs, switches, and routers so I don't think it's that. by 01/10/2012, 4:33pm PST |
