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hussain · New Member Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 31

Please review my network below. My problem is that My xbox does not detect network if my htpc is switched. However as soon as a switch the htpc on, xbox also connects to the network.

Hence to play xbox live, If have to turn on my HTPC.

Thankyou

DIREWOLF75 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:40 am Post subject:

The picture is all black??
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o'h3nry · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:12 am Post subject:

I can see the picture just fine. Very well drawn diagram, hussain!

I'm no expert at networking, but I'll give my 2 cents...

I've heard that if you go through too many routers, the DHCP won't assign properly. It seems like you're going through 3 routers before getting to the 360 or HTPC. Does anything change if you connect your Netgear WNHDE111 (hard-wired to the HTPC and 360) directly to the Linksys WRT54 and skip the middle Netgear WNHDE111?

EDIT: I see your Netgear routers are wireless-N and that is why you're going from one to the other, to maintain your wireless N speeds- very good idea for streaming from the storage PC to the HTPC! Still, I wonder if going through too many routers is confusing the DHCP distributor (which I assume is the WRT54) and that could be giving you trouble.
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Sauron_Daz · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 21985

Why so many routers?
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DIREWOLF75 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:32 pm Post subject:

hussain · New Member Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 31

WNHDE is not a router it is access port as well as bridge. I use them to get both N as well as G wireless connectivity.

Now someone can please answer my question.

Sauron_Daz · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 21985

And why can't the HTPC and XBox connect directly to the WRT54?
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