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27 February

Crossover cables and you

It's weird when a particular issue doesn't seem to get talked about much for a long time, then wham, you see it all over the place. Just in the last few days, I've noticed a bunch of people on the forums advising other people on the forums to use a crossover cable to do system link or PC direct link with their Xbox 360. Honestly, I know you mean well, but stop it. Why? Because:

You don't need a crossover cable with Xbox 360.

It's true. Xbox 360 comes with nifty auto-sensing switching capabilities that renders crossover cables obsolete. Crossover cables still work, but you can use a regular old Ethernet cable to do direct link now. I know where this perception comes from: it was an absolute requirement to do direct system link with original Xbox. But no longer. You're free.

Now, go forth and spread the word.

10:52:36 | Blog it | Tidbits

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	Adolphsenwrote: Okay,so i have asked every one thats good with internet that i know and no one can help ME!!! Now I'll tell you whats going on,My grandfather has the internet going into his house and he has 2 routers and wirlles access point ,and out of the routers he has a wirless raido signal or some weird thing going from his house to mine...now we have a recever of some kind in our house and and from that we can only have one ethernet cable,(going to our pc)and it will not let use use a rouer or wirless router or anything....It just that one ethernet running to our pc!HELLLPPPP!!!! 5 June
	Kyle Hudsonwrote: Hey man, since you know a bt bout this sorta stuff, what is the best way to frap your xbox 360 and how? many thanks 12 Mar.
	Joe Santorsierowrote: Great to know. I have not thought of hard wiring my Xbox360 to my MCE computer since the wireless works so well. Good to know in case I move the MCE next to the 360 one day. 1 Mar.
	Nicholaswrote: I'm such a nerd cuz I already knew that. From what I hear though you do need a crossover cable to link an og xbox to an xbox 360, is that right? 1 Mar.

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