X-Box to iMac

Hi guys,
Have just recently bought an iMac and am still currently getting to grips with it after years of Windows. I have a Sky Netgear router that is connected wirelessly to my iMac Airport and I have an X-Box wireless adaptor that also connects to my router with no difficulty.
The problem unfortunately is streaming the movies from my Mac to the X-Box. When I 'test PC connection' on the X-Box it can't find my Mac however when I use a cable to connect the router to the x-box it CAN find my Mac.
The iMac connects to the router fine, the X-Box connects to my router fine, but they can't seem to connect to eachother. Help!

sounds like a network addressing issue.
Are you Wireless addresses the same as your Wired ones? You have 2 routers/access points so there may be some stuff going on there.
The two devices (Xbox and iMac) have to live on the same subnet to talk right.
At least this is this is the typical case I've seen many times.

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