ive got a wireless router, installed to my PC.

 

internet works great.

 

on the xbox, it picks up the router. and i can go on xbox live :)

 

 

however, it cannot locate my PC??

 

(i want to share media etc)

 

 

if i go to media player, libruary, media sharing, the xbox is there, and i select allow, but the xbox just cant find my PC???

 

is there a alternate way i can pair the xbox to the PC?

 

manually? or as the xbox cant find my PC, get my PC to find the xbox?

 

please help!

 

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you mean windows media centre?

no windows media player on the PC.

 

thats where the option is to share the files?

 

 

media centre is on the xbox, but it cannot locate the PC to conenct?

Does the PC have a firewall enabled ?

you can use media player? new to me

you need to enable file sharing in your network settings , if its still as set up at the factory then it will be a private network , make it public and enable file sharing

easy way is go to media player, click the arrow under library , select media sharing

you can use media player? new to me

 

yes so long as its MP11 or above

 

I used to share with my Xbox360 and now do with my PS3

 

to answer your question... you say you've installed a Wireless Router on your PC?

 

Do you mean, you have a wireless router and both your PC and your Xbox360 are connecting to it wirelessly?

 

Or do you mean the PC is plugged into it via the ethernet cable, and the Xbox360 is looking at it wirelessly?

 

if it is the latter, you will probably find that your wired lan, and your wireless lan are on diferent IP ranges, and THIS will cause you issues

 

Id check the firewall also.

 

way to test if your setup is the latter, is connect a laptop to your wireless, do an IP config on both your PC and the laptop, and see what IP addresses you get.

 

This is my home lan

 

(xbox360 now replaced with Ps3 due to RRoD)

 

All divices on the wired part of the lan can see eath other fine, but any devices connected to the wireless router can NOT see the devices on the wired side due to the diferent IP address ranges.

 

Now i could fix that, but I can't be arsed as this way, my home lan is secure, even if someone hacks my wireless AP and uses my internet, my other devices are safe.