XBox 360 direct cabled to Airport Extreme...

I thought this would be easy and straightforward, but it ain't.
My Airport Extreme base station is right next to my XBox 360, so wireless is really unnecessary. I just ran an ethernet cable from the XBox to the ethernet port on the AE base station thinking it would connect without trouble, but the Xbox is not getting an IP address from the base station. Everything else is fine, all wirelessly connected devices are connecting normally.
Am I overlooking something here? Is that ethernet port not compatible for some reason?

Verify that the Xbox is connected to the LAN port on the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS).

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Hi, and thanks for looking. Here are the facts in a nutshell.
1. Xbox 360, set up for wireless connection.
2. Wireless network, all apple equipment. Main Base station is the new Airport Extreme, hooked to a Cable Modem (Toshiba), with transmission via Comcast Internet.
3. All wireless connections between Mac computers, and Dell PC's working flawlessly, including multiple printers.
4.Cannot connect to XBox 360 because when attempting to wireless network not recognized. When editing Wireless connection, by manually typing in the Network Name, and the WPA password, still does not work.
5. Incidentally, I have had this XBox connected before,until I purchased the new Airport Extreme Station (the rectangular one). What has changed? For one thing I added WPA security, and secondly, I got rid of a Netgear Router that I had been using for better distance, at the end of the Airport extreme chain. So the equipment is slightly different, and the security is definately different.
So please, someone tell me what I must do to have the XBox connect to a Mac AEx Network, that has WPA security, and then, how do I get XBox to recognize a computer.
Prior to this, without security, and with a netgear router as an ethernetted remote to an Airport Extreme, the XBox could get on the network, and see a Dell computer for programming. Now it can't do any of that. Sorry to be so long winded.
I've tried everything including turning the firewall off the Dell. I even tried putting the Netgear back on the network by ethernet, which then allowed the 360 to log on wirelessly, but, still could not see the Dell, even with the firewall off. Thank you
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You should really search for your question in the Airport forum found here <http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=140>. The forum you've posted in is dedicated to Macintosh and Windows compatibility issues. While XBox 360 and Windows are both Microsoft products they are not the same thing.
I think you'll find that many folks with the new Airport Extreme base stations are having compatibility issues with many devices when trying to use any security. The best workarounds are to either hide the SSID and restrict access using the network hardware address while using no wireless security, plug the XBox 360 directly into the station with an Ethernet cable or not use the new Airport base station altogether.
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This has been driving me crazy I don't know what to do...
I had an Airport Extreme for a few years, worked fantastic and was able to connect wirelessly with my Xbox 360 with no problems.
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I have been on hold with Comcast for an hour and so far no end in site. So I thought maybe someone here might be able to help me.
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I can't believe how complicated this has turned out to be. The apple page directions are totally outdated (looks like Tiger) and every online explanation seems to involve older g routers.
I have the latest airport extreme n (not a time capsule) as my main wireless router, and an airport express n which I just bought from apple to extend the wireless signal in my house.
While my Airport Utility shows both routers and allows me to configure them as a bridged or extended wireless network, none of my apple products (ipad, macbook pro, imac, G5 tower) can detect it on wi-fi.
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+Can anyone give me a simple step-by-step explanation on how to extend my extreme's wireless signal using the express?+
Sure, here you go. You can also reference pages 43-44 in the Apple AirPort Networks Guide.
_On the AirPort Extreme (AEBS)_
Open AirPort Utility and click Manual Setup
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Update to save changes
_On the AirPort Express (AX)_
Open AirPort Utility and click Manual Setup.
Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons
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Wireless Password…..exact same setting as your AEBS
Click the Base Station tab to assign a name and device password for the AX
Click the Music icon to enable AirTunes if you wish
Update to save settings.
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Final point. The ethernet port on on AX is active in this configuration, so if you need to connect an ethernet device, just plug it in.
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cshamis wrote:
Please, pardon if this is remedial networking for some of you:
It was really helpful, thanks!
The problem is that the airport extreme is "in front of" your computer. So that when Internet services (like BitTorrent) try to connect to your machine (which is expecting them), they hit the Airport first, (which is NOT expecting them)... since it doesn't know what to do with them, it throws them away.
So I know you go on to explain how to let this traffic through, but should I place the airport in front of the modem (I dont even know if this is possible)
The reason why things like WWW work, is because the Airport isn't completely brain-dead. It knows how to "follow a conversation" and it essentially eaves-drops to all outgoing connections from your computer. If your computer deliberately asks for a response, then the Airport extreme "knows enough" to send the expected response back down to your computer. This magic all happens automatically for things like your email, web, ftp, etc.etc... because these services all follow a "back-and-forth" communication model.
The problem with protocols like BitTorrent (or running your OWN webserver for example) means that, you never know who is going to come knocking. It's not that the Airport is denying these "visitors" so much as, it wasn't told that anyone was coming.
To fix the problem you need to tell the Aiport extreme to roll out the welcome mat, and also... you need to the the Airport *where to send these visitors* That is what you do with the NAT port maps. This is how you tell the airport, when somebody comes and knocks on this door, send them to my PC. (Not, my laptop, or my iPhone, or my printer, or anything else that may be on the network: send them to my PC) After all, it is the PC that would be running BitTorrent, or Unreal, or a webserver, or ICQ, or what-have-you...
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It has been my experience that BitTorrent uses the following ports:
tcp 13405
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udp 6881-6999
TCP and UDP are two different flavors of internet traffic, and there is a section in the NAT redirections that allow for each... make sure you place them in the proper places.
Hope that helps. If it doesn't, let me know and I'll email you a screenshot of what the config page should look like.
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Could not access it because their network security blocked you by intent, or had some unknown technical difficulty?
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Xbox 360 and wired connection

I'm trying to connect my Xbox 360 to my Airport Extreme using a wired ethernet connection. However, the Xbox 360 always says "MTU Failed". I've reserved an IP address for my Xbox 360, and tried opening ports 88 and 3074 for UDP and 3074 for TCP as Microsoft suggests, and I even tried using the IP assigned to the Xbox 360 as the NAT host, but it still doesn't work. I also tried connecting my Xbox 360 directly to the modem and it worked perfectly so I know it's not an issue with my ISP. Does anyone know what the problem might be? I tried searching, but it seems everyone's problems are when trying to connect the Xbox wirelessly and disappear when they connect the Xbox 360 directly to the Airport Extreme.
Thanks in advance.

Ok, i have it sorted
MTU setting should be:
Primary DNS server -> your router address (which could be 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 etc.. depend on your number, everybody is different, check underneath your router box)
Secondary server: Your ip address, can be found in -> safari: type www.whatsmyip.org (don't give this away!!)
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There are several prior threads on this, and on the Micros**t board, but none resolve the issue - so here's hoping someone can help the father of a frustrated 15 year old (please, please!!).
Bottom line - my son got an XBox 360 for Christmas. We have an Airport Extreme network (with an Airport Express range booster down stream) for our home network. Cable modem with static IP. The XBox with its wireless networking adapter will recognize my home network (with WEP security) - it's located about 10 fet from the Extreme Base Satation, but the XBox will not connect. (We tried the XBox website's "set up wizard" to no avail; Microsoft simply says that Airports are not supported and they have no clue as to how to establish a connection with a non-PC).
I know an XBox 360 can join an Apple Airport Extreme wireless network because others have posted the result - but without any explicit instructions on how to do so (at least none that I can find).
I'm pretty Mac savvy, but don't want to get into doing terminal commands as I don't want to mess up any aspect of my home network (since I have an office there as well and can't afford to rebuild a network like I did last night for 6 hours when someone at Micro told me to change my Airporst security, which sent a ripple effect throgh my system to the point I lost all internet for hours).
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