Patch cable & crossover cable
Patch cable is pin to pin - and is used with Hubs and switches etc.
Crossover cable has some pins crossed (hence the name) and is from attaching 2 PC's (or
PC to xbox) directly together.
You can check what you have by looking at the ends of the cable, hold the two ends up and
compare them are they identical
- if so its patch cable and you will not be able to plug you PC directly to your Xbox (you will
need 2 cabled and a hub)-
if some of the cables are moved its Crossover and you can.
Other than this they look identical. In summary get a crossover cable if you can.
EVOX BOOT DISK
Download and burn the EvoX ISO disk.
Boot your xbox with this disk and check out the settings area - this is were you can set the
static ip you want (note ensure you have STATIC IP - set to yes.
And so with a Xbox booted with the Evox Boot disk, connected to your PC with the correct
cable you are ready for...
*Welcome to the wonderful world of Xbox networking - class 101*
To understand Xbox/PC networking you need to think about PC networking a bit even if you
know nothing about it - its very logical.
An IP address is exactly what it sounds like -its an address expressed as numbers - it
identifies a device on a network and allows you to contact it - there more to it that this but its
this concept you need to understand.
There are 2 ways to get an IP address - dynamically (DHCP) or statically,
this first option is called dynamic or DHCP because your IP may be different every time you
switch the device on as it gets the IP at that time from a selection of possible ones available
on the PC giving them out.
To get an IP you need a device that can assign them - makes sense you say - Xbox cannot
assign IP's - it doesn’t have the ability as its not got the correct software. PC's can do it but
they need to be set-up correctly for this (its easy).
Personally I don’t use dynamic IP's on my Xbox as I like to know what IP it has every time
and I find it easy to set-up so I suggest you stick to static by setting it on you Evox Dashboard
and on your PC to be the same all the time.
WHAT IP ADDRESS TO USE ?
No two devices can have the same IP on the same network - if they did how would you know
which was which - they have to be different But they have to be able to "see" each other and
to do this you need to have the same subnet - WTF is a subnet ?
Basically - (very basically - please forgive me networking gurus out there) just make sure the
first 3 numbers (called octets) are the same but the last number is different.
E.g. these are good example of 2 IP's on the same subnet - I use this at home. I won’t go into
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