Xbox Cable Help

[Superbean]

Ok guys as you no i squashed in a little room with my xbox on a small telly for xbox live. But my dad says he will fit a cable up the stairs to my bedroom for me so i can use xbox live in my own room on a nice 32inc. But theres so many diffrent kinds of ethernet cable and i was looking on the web for some.

heres what i found.

20 Metre Crossover Network Cable
(Crossover Cat5 Ethernet) with RJ45 Connectors

Cat5 is that cable compatable from my 205 router to my 360 upstairs.

A nice straight yes or no would be great guys so i can get it orderd tonight

heres the link
http://www.gfsupplies.co.uk/acatalog/crossovercable.html

plz plz say if this cable will bve alright

thanks dan

[Superbean]

So does anyone have any idea if it will work? plz reply

[Benj]

Yes, thats the one you need.

[Blaze Lord]

No, you don't want a crossover cable. You want the regular network cables, not crossover.

[Benj]

No, you don't want a crossover cable. You want the regular network cables, not crossover.
The 205 only has one ethernet port. You can't run a second cable out of it, you need to run one out of the pc to the 360.

My bad for not reading the post properly and making assumptions without explaining. You will either need to buy a router or set-up ICS and plug the 360 into the pc with the crossover cable.

[Blaze Lord]

The 205 'router' isn't a router, then? One ethernet port?

Doesn't that mean his PC will have to have 2 ethernet ports? Or is this another of those wacky USB based connections?

[Benj]

The 205 'router' isn't a router, then? One ethernet port?

Doesn't that mean his PC will have to have 2 ethernet ports? Or is this another of those wacky USB based connections?
It's a cheap thing that BT give away for free with their dsl. It has 1 USB and 1 Ethernet port which let's it be called a router. It's fine with just one of the ports being used but is known to be erratic when using both, and, to quote BT techinical support "doesn't support internal routing". In other words it's a modem with a choice of USB or Ethernet.

You could plug the PC in via USB and the 360 using Ethernet. However that would mena using BT's software on the PC and risking the dodgy routing when using both. I had one when I first got dsl and was getting massive packet loss when using both usb and ethernet ports at the same time.

[Blaze Lord]

Ah, gotcha. Ok, well, that means the best thing is plug the modem into the PC with a USB cable, and then use a PC-to-360 connection with Ethernet, and set up ICS. Now, I'm 90% sure that this means you do need a crossover cable, but I think Thornbag said he got it to work with just a regular networking cable.

[Benj]

Ah, gotcha. Ok, well, that means the best thing is plug the modem into the PC with a USB cable, and then use a PC-to-360 connection with Ethernet, and set up ICS. Now, I'm 90% sure that this means you do need a crossover cable, but I think Thornbag said he got it to work with just a regular networking cable.
It would normally need a crossover but I've heard that the 360's network adapter is capable of making the switch itself so you may not need one. I don't know whether or not that's true so the safest bet if you do things that way is to go with the crossover.

[Dcontrol]

It's a cheap thing that BT give away for free with their dsl. It has 1 USB and 1 Ethernet port which let's it be called a router. It's fine with just one of the ports being used but is known to be erratic when using both, and, to quote BT techinical support "doesn't support internal routing". In other words it's a modem with a choice of USB or Ethernet.

You are correct on this as I have two of these "cheap" routers and I have had no problems with them either. As for the erratic bit you are quite correct as if I'm on the pc and the missus is on Live then she could lag a fair bit but then its only of I am downloading something.