I want to try out xbox live but have a cabling/modem question!

 

I currently have

 

1 phone line

 

1 adsl filter with modem and laptop connected to this.

 

On the phone outlet I have my home phone and hard drive tv recorder connected to this (tivo).

 

I want to twin again the phone line to the tv recorder, stick a modem on it to supply internet to the xbox, can it be done?

all i did to get on xbox live was use the ethernet cable supplied with my 360 n plugged it into one of the spair ports on the modem ....or if ya got wireless thn ya can get a wireless addaptor for ya 360 ...bowt 120 quid a think.

Thanks for the reply but I don't want to go wireless, and modem/router for both would mean running another 10M wire which I don't want to do!

There are loads of ways of doing it, but the easy way would be getting a router.

 

I guess you could bridge your connections, plug an Ethernet cable into your laptop from the xbox and bridge your usb modem connection and local area network. It might work, it might not.

 

But if was you i would get a router, make life easier!

So, if I understand it correctly, your modem/laptop are 10 metres away from your xbox, which is where your TIVO/phone are, that are connected by a cable to the same filter that your modem is connected to! Is that correct Mark?

If it is, then you can't do it! But you do have options.....

 

1) Assuming your modem is purely that, and only has one Ethernet outlet, then you could add a router to it and run a new cable to your xbox. but you've already said you don't want to do that.

2) Go wireless! Quite an expensive way to go if you only have a modem at the moment, as you'd need a wireless router and the wireless adaptor for the xbox.

 

Ive just been trying to work any other ways around it, but I can't think of any, due to the technicalities of multi-plugging and filtration.

 

Sorry bud,

Dave

It will probably work, but ultimately it won't be reliable in the slightest. it will depend if your filters are good or not. The bad link in the path from your 360/modem is the last DSL filter as you're trying to go through the 'telephone' side. That final 'telephone' side will be a low-pass filter, effectively filtering out any frequency above 26khz, ie. your upload and download frequencies on a DSL line.

You can hope for a really badly built/designed filter which doesn't filter the higher frequencies very effectively. Lol.

 

The best way to do it would be to take the cable that goes to your phone/tivo and wire it directly into the master socket (Not through the filter). That way you will have two lines that are unfiltered.

You will then be able to put a filter where the laptop is and have Phone and DSL, and a filter where the Tivo is to have phone and DSL for the XBOX/modem