Tutorial: Mac Internet Sharing (with Xbox 360)
A very hidden and somewhat unused feature of Mac OS X is the internet sharing application which can be found in System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing. This feature is very basic and easy to setup but it allows you to share the incoming internet connection on your Mac with other computers in your vicinity. You can even turn your Mac into a wireless hub using this feature. We’ll help show you how to set this up properly in this guide, along with a step by step tutorial of how to use your Mac’s internet connection in order to get your Xbox 360 online without having to purchase a wireless adapter.
The first step is getting familiar with Internet Sharing. As mentioned above, you need to navigate to System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing (which is an option listed on the left). Once on the Internet Sharing option page, you need to setup exactly what you want to do before you proceed to turn it on. As you can see, you need to select where you want the shared connection to come from and then where you are going to output it. So, if you want to turn your Mac into a wireless hub, you would select “Share your connection from: Ethernet”…”To computer using: Airport”. You can mess around with any configuration here including Airport to Ethernet, Bluetooth to Ethernet, etc. In order to enable it, you must click the check box next to internet sharing. You can now turn your Mac into any sort of internet hub that you want it to be. This works great when you are somewhere such as a hotel which might only have one Ethernet plug but you have 4 laptops. You can create a wireless hub for everyone else in the room to connect to.
One of my favorite uses for this feature is sharing my MacBook’s Airport connection with my Xbox 360 through an Ethernet connection. I have been doing this for years, and it has saved me the $100 I would have had to spend on a wireless adapter for my 360. Here is a step by step guide on how to setup your Xbox 360 to share an internet connection with your Mac:
1. Enable internet sharing as described above in System Preferences. You will want to select sharing from Airport to Ethernet.
2. Connect your Mac to your Xbox 360 using an Ethernet cable.
3. Open up Terminal on your Mac by going to Applications > Utilities.
4. In terminal type “ifconfig en0″ (that is a zero)
5. In the terminal screen, you need to look for the line which displays as “inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx”. Write this number down. For example, mine is currently 192.168.2.1
6. Also get the IP Address of your wireless router. This can be found in System Preferences > Network> Select Airport > Advanced> TCP/IP Tab > Router. Write this number down. Mine was 10.0.1.1
7. Start your Xbox and get to the Network Settings menu. You will now have to put some numbers in manually…
8. For IP Address you need to enter the inet number you found in your terminal but with the last number being 1 digit higher. For instance, mine would be 192.168.2.2
9. For Subnet, enter 255.255.255.0
10. For Router/Gateway enter the inet number from earlier. Mine was 192.168.2.1
11. For DNS (both primary and secondary) enter the IP of your router. Mine was 10.0.1.1
12. You need to leave PPPoE and advanced settings blank (default was off and automatic).
13. Test the connection and enjoy having a shared internet connection to your Xbox from your Mac.
If you need any help with this, please leave a comment and I’ll get back to you.
Also, do not forget to set the correct ports for forwarding in your internet gateway for the 360′s IP address. Otherwise you’ll be working with a STRICT NAT…
Haven’t tried this method, but it sounds like it should work. I’ll check into configuring Mac OS X IPtables.
when i try to connect to xbox live, network connects, but internet fails. i know i’ve done all steps right, and when my ethernet cable is connected to my mac, i can not use my internet, though it says it’s connected. any suggestions?
I’m the exact same problem as the above user (lui)
Any fixes?
This works on my MacBook running 10.5.6 and my XBOX 360 with NXE update installed.
You must first go into System Preferences > Sharing and enable internet sharing.
Then, if you want to, disable your firewall (System Preferences > Security > Firewall). If my firewall was not disable XBox Live gave me a NAT error, but still let me connect.
Network Settings:
Manual IP/Manual DNS
IP Address: 192.168.2.2*
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.2.1*
Primary DNS: 192.168.2.1**
Secondary DNS: 192.168.2.1**
*Run “ifconfig en0″ in the Terminal, use the IP address returned after “inet”. I’ve been told that it’s always 192.168.2.1, but I’m not sure. For “IP Address”, add 1 to this number, for “Gateway”, use the number.
** This is the same number returned using “ifconfig en0″. Others have said to use the DNS of the ISP or the router, this has never worked for me. Instead, using the IP of the Mac did.
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ok wen i type “ifconfig en0″ in the Terminal, I get this:
en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500
ether 00:23:df:7b:58:92
media: autoselect status: inactive
supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 1000baseT 1000baseT 1000baseT
It doest say inet anywhere, and I don’t see anything that looks like an IP address, if thats wat we’re looking for. I’m not sure why. I am using the MacBook OS X Version 10.5.6 if that matters at all.
does anyone think this can be done using an ethernet connection from the modem to the computer, and another from the computer to the xbox? cause i have the regular ethernet plug on my computer and i have an extra usb ethernet adapter from another computer.
this worked for me for about a week and then all the sudden it says my pc cannot be found. shows the network is fine but the internet is a no go
How can I share my printer with a laptop? I saw it in the system preferences, but don’t know how it works.
jim; i’ve tried that before, it doesn’t work, not with your explenation either. if i have to use my DNS or ISP or router, where can i get those? complete data n00b in those arias
When I try connecting to xbox live it says my dns server can’t resolve the xbox live or xbox.com servers
Which ports do you forward, or how do you find out your xbox 360′s ip address to forward so you dont have a ‘strick NAT’?
It says that mt MTU failed how do i fix this
I got it to work for the most part, but it says on the Xbox my NAT type is moderate, how do i get that to open?
has anyone found a fix to the problem that lui and alex had?
“when i try to connect to xbox live, network connects, but internet fails. i know i've done all steps right, and when my ethernet cable is connected to my mac, i can not use my internet, though it says it's connected. any suggestions?”
I don’t have a problem using the internet on my mac tho, i hate how microsoft has to have such strict thing for XBL i rember the old xbox had a lot of problems trying to connect arugh it’s anoying
i have found a solution although i still have that restricted NAT error
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360
i followed the steps from the link above and not only didnt it work, i now cant even get a network connection like i used to
i had the same problem some of you had with the internet failing on the xbox. You should do all the steps above but befor you finish try system prefrences> sharing>services and then enable personal web sharing. it worked for me hope it works for you too.
well, now that i cant even get a network connection for some reason it doesnt seem like anything is working at all
not to jinx myself, but now i just set everything to automatic and im on Live
good grief. we’ll see how long it lasts
ah that sucks and i resized turning on personal web sharing only works for on line play but you can always turn of your fire wall for when your downloading stuff im still trying to find away to not have to turn off my fire wall to download stuff.
Yeah its working up to the point and gives me “Your NAT type is Moderate. people on networks with…. blahblah”
Damn how annoying!
its as though my xbox takes a week to figure out what i did then tries to work against me. once again, no xbox live…
I need help! I think “noob” has the same problem as me.
When I go into terminal and put “ifconfig en0″ it doesn’t have inet anywhere.
I’ve been trying to get it to work for days but I don’t know what to do! I posted my problem on the Xbox forums,here:
http://forums.xbox.com/25854259/ShowPost.aspx
E-mail me if you can help me!
brar.amber@gmail.com
Network=connected
internet=FAIL!
i dont know what to do, this is so frusturating
The number i get after inetis different every time I restart my compueter and it always starts at 169.xxx.xxx.xxx You say it should be 192.xxx.xxx.xx is this odd? Also I got a network set up but was unable to get on the internet. It said my DNS was wrong. My DNS was 192.168.1.4, you said it should b3 10.0.1.1, is that odd?
If your having trouble with your 360 not connecting to the internet but it will connect to the network it’s more than likely a problem with your DNS. to fix it go to the terminal (look above for instruction on where to find the terminal if you don’t know how) and type “cat /etc/resolv.conf” notice the space between “cat” and the first slash. Something like this should come up
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain hsd1.co.comcast.net.
nameserver 68.87.85.98
nameserver 68.87.69.146
The two addresses are your DNS servers that your Internet provider has supplied for your network. Now type the first one into you Primary and secondary DNS on your Xbox and you should be in business.
I typed in “cat /etc/resolv.conf” and only got
andrew-garcias-macbook:~ gwarcia$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.1
am I messing up? Should I have the two addresses or is the one sufficient?
Thanks for the help.
I’m having the same problems as everybody else it seems. My 360 will connect to my macbook, but will not connect to the internet. I have checked to make sure my DNS server settings are correct, and that did not seem to effect anything. Could it be my wireless router being stingy? I have a D-link router, thats pretty much the lowest of the low. What kinds of routers are everybody else using who have this problem?
So if all else fails use the cord that came with the Ethernet cord that came with the xbox not one you already owned, such was my problem and after deciding to troubleshoot I switched the cords and worked perfectly, just to mention I am using a mac to connect and it all worked out very well.
Thank you … Thank you … Thank you … You’re directions were PERFECT !!!!
well i entered the manual stuff and it can connect to my network, but it says it cant find the DNS xbox live servers. PLZ HELP!
NVM! yay! look at the 4TH comment and do exactly what he says. it worked for me
this is frustrating
i cant get my DNS thing to connect
plz help me
Same problems here… I’ve been sharing my internet through my mac for a long time and have tried everything that used to work but now something is wrong. Getting very annoyed here… There has to be a better way.
Yeah, Follow the 4th comment. I did and it worked! Thanks!
i dont know how to get my connection to open instead of moderate can some one help
i need help plz i had this workin yesterday and now it doesnt let me pass dns!!!!
nvm bout the dns now but how do you change the nat?
again, i also am having trouble.
same as many other people, mine was working for a few days and now all of a sudden something’s wrong with the DNS and connecting to the xbox live or xbox.com servers.
the difference is the fact that i used this exact method all winter break and it worked perfectly.
for my primary and secondary DNS, i’ve tried every method. the actual way described in the tutorial, the 4th comment and using inet for both DNS’, and even bumping up the inet 1 digit, and using 192.168.2.2 for both of them.
nothing is working, not even enabling personal web sharing. this is so incredibly frustrating because it worked before and now it just doesn’t.
When I do this I consistantly get a DNS error when I log in saying that it can’t resolve the names of the xbox live servers or xbox.com
I followed the steps Jim told us above (Use the Gateway adress returned from terminal as DNS servers).
For me it works perfectly. thanks a lot!!!
“This works on my MacBook running 10.5.6 and my XBOX 360 with NXE update installed.
You must first go into System Preferences > Sharing and enable internet sharing.
Then, if you want to, disable your firewall (System Preferences > Security > Firewall). If my firewall was not disable XBox Live gave me a NAT error, but still let me connect.
Network Settings:
Manual IP/Manual DNS
IP Address: 192.168.2.2*
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.2.1*
Primary DNS: 192.168.2.1**
Secondary DNS: 192.168.2.1**
*Run ifconfig en0? in the Terminal, use the IP address returned after inet. I've been told that it's always 192.168.2.1, but I'm not sure. For IP Address, add 1 to this number, for Gateway, use the number.
** This is the same number returned using ifconfig en0?. Others have said to use the DNS of the ISP or the router, this has never worked for me. Instead, using the IP of the Mac did.”
taken from Jim (above)
I am not sure how to get my xbox live to work i am a profile i have xbox live but when i try to get on A display comes up and says ” Connection failed because Xbox Live is resticted on this gamer profile. WHAT DO I DO ?????
I have this setup going, but i am having trouble forwarding the ports. All the right ports are forwarded to my mac by the router but my mac is not passing them along to the xbox. Any clues on how to fix this? I am running 10.5.
im gettin the nat prob. any suggestions?
What if i go to get the wireless router ID and it is blank in the feild?
Man, thank you so much. I read on a forum how to do this and it just kept NOT working. Read your tutorial and it is running great. Thanks, you saved me $100.
The directions here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360
Make solving this problem on the mac WAYYY easier.
I can connect and play but it tells me i have a restricted NAT, this prevents me from playing Halo efficiently. Whenever i play Halo 3 i get booted from the game, but all of my other games work fine. Any solutions?
,Dan Brazier
THANK YOU it was a great help PERFECT and it’s all because of you much love JP
Hey,
does anybody have any tips on how to set up an connection between my xbox 360 and my macbook via an vpn server to let my xbox think it is connected via an us ip?
i tryed alot of stuff and there are some tuts for doing it with windows, but ot for the mac…
any help would be nice…
Thanks in advance.
THANKYOU!
worked a treat!
Hey,
I did everything you said to do and it still didn’t work. I can connect to the network but not from the network to the internet. My Xbox says that my “DNS server can’t resolve the names from of the Xbox Live servers or Xbox.com”
Guys I am having the same DNS error. The crazy frustrating thing is that everything was working perfectly, went on a 1 week vacation, and now it doesn’t work. I have tried freaking everything…any ideas?
I used the tutorial above but whenever i test my xbox live connection the network adapter says wired, IP Adress says confirmed, but DNS says failed, and i’m not sure why..help?
When I typed “ifconfig en0″ i got this:
inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
And when I typed “cat /etc/resolv.conf” into Terminal i received three nameservers…
nameserver 192.168.2.1
nameserver 209.18.47.61
nameserver 209.18.47.62
Can someone please be patient with me and tell me what numbers to use?
You have to turn off YOUR FIREWALL! Under system pref>security>firewall (set to allow all incoming traffic) also under internet sharing turn it off and on and make sue the window pops up saying “start sharing” I had a headache trying to get my DNS to work but after this works like a charm. Hope this helps
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You are awesome. this worked perfectly. Saved me 100$!!!
Works Great! I had some trouble at first. Then I went to System Preferences — Network and manually entered my IP Address. For some reason the automatic DHCP config was assigning some random address.
Configure: Using DHCP w/ manual address
IP Address: 192.168.2.1 (per directions)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DNS Server: in the same place (System Preferences–Network) see what DNS Server and Search Domain your connection has. In my case 10.0.1.1
Search Domain: follow DNS step… in my case ca.cox.net
that fixed my problem
i dont know who you are, but you sir, who made this tutorial, are my savior. you saved me 100$.
i need help my internet router crashed a day ago and now my xbox linked with my mac does not get the inter net from the mac ive tried all the settings and nothing will work plz helpme
Wow that worked like a dream thank you!
Hey so i am having troubles like a couple of people above
i can connect to the network but not the internet
i am following all the steps but nothing is working
whats wrong?
Excellent tip, thanks a million, really useful.
This worked great! (see below) …although about 6 addresses came up, I typed in the first two, and it worked like a charm.
>”If your having trouble with your 360 not connecting to the internet but it will connect to the network it's more than likely a problem with your DNS. to fix it go to the terminal (look above for instruction on where to find the terminal if you don't know how) and type cat /etc/resolv.conf notice the space between cat and the first slash. Something like this should come up
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain hsd1.co.comcast.net.
nameserver 68.87.85.98
nameserver 68.87.69.146
The two addresses are your DNS servers that your Internet provider has supplied for your network. Now type the first one into you Primary and secondary DNS on your Xbox and you should be in business.”
when i test it works till it gets to DNS then it “fails” i put in the one that i got from ipv4 address but it didn’t work. i also tried the inet on. neither worked
i tried the ipv4 and the network address
For those of you having problems with the internet connection failing when plugging in the ethernet cable, try this:
1. Go to System Preferences > Network.
2. Select “Ethernet”
3. Set “Configure” to “off”
4. Type in your routers ip adress in DNS.
5. Hit apply and insert ethernet cable.
Solved the problem for me
i was able to get through to the internet but then is stoped at the pc part. it said pc not listed but what do you do when it is the mac
none of this is working for me. as soon as i test connection i get “test failed” instantly. I’ve tried everything that i can think of. I restored to defaults to try again and it will not let me enter the subnet mask. says its not valid, must be in xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx format (which it is). Its just not connecting at all.
anyone having problems with DNS try turning your network sharing off and on. it fixed my issues everyone seems to be having.
hope that helps.
See Tom Erik (comments September 22, 2009). Followed the tutorial instructions and without success during the internet test. I stopped internet sharing. Put my routers IP address in the DNS server field for the ethernet connection. Restarted internet sharing and connected without delay on the next attempt.
I’m able to connect, for now!
It says it doesn’t have an IP address when I connect it to another computer over airport.
No success after trying EVERYTHING
Thanks for the tutorial!! Worked perfectly, and saved me from buying an wireless adapter :]
Also, I was amused after going through the trouble to get all the numbers and addresses I needed, they were the same ones you used in the tutorial haha.
Thanks for the info!
I actually had already set this up (albeit with different settings) and it was working fine until yesterday, when for some reason it stopped working. Repeating everything from step 1 following your guide worked like a charm!
I was having such a hard time, follow step 4 and it works 100%
what happens when you cant find the inet number? where is it? i dont see it after entering the config code
I had the same problem James, try entering just “ifconfig” without the “en0″. You should get a longer list and there will be a line with “en0″ at the begging. That’s where you should see the inet number, probably 192.168.2.1
hope this works for you too.
if you follow the directions for 10.5 (i just tested on 10.6 and it works) at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360 you should be able to set everything on the xbox to auto and get it to work
Thanks guys I finally got it. I have entered all of the numbers in properly, and when I test the connection, I am able to connect to the network without any problem. However, during the testing process, I am not able to connect from the network to x-box live. Any suggestions?
ive redone it several times and everytime i get dns error… any fixes?
i only have one dns code? i have 2 wire if this helps..
i used the dns code for both of them and it still didnt work.
help?
I’m getting a “Your Nat type is moderate” warning and I want to know how I can fix this?
Ok, so everything works, until the part where it must connect to the internet, and it says, your DNS server cant resolve the namves of the xbox live servers. My DNS is not wrong already checked a tousand times and ive also restarted the router. what do i do?
i really dont know how to do it i got confused on the terminal stuff and it doesnt work for me so can you please help me
thankyou very much, extremely useful
when i type “ifconfig en0″ i do not see an inet address and when i just type “ifconfig” i still don’t see en0. i see en1 instead. why is this happening?
What if I’m trying to do this with two different xboxes. One works perfectly and now my buddy got a mac and his xbox wont connect to xbox live through his mac with the same settings as mine. we changed the ip address to 192.168.2.3 so they wouldnt have the same ip but he is getting a DNS error
any ideas?
After some pain in @$$ I finally got it to work. Wasn’t trying to hook into XBOX, but a Directv HD Receiver. Using OS X 10.5.8 on macbook pro
What I did–
1. Start with the previous posts of sharing your internet connection.
1.1. type “ifconfig en0″ in the terminal and view your inet address–mine was 192.168.2.1
2. Go into System Prefs / Network
2.1. click on AirPort, then advanced — make note of your router address–mine was 192.168.2.1–because this poses as a conflict with the inet address i logged into my router and changed it’s address to be 192.168.0.1
3. Select Ethernet
3.1. In the configure drop-down box, select “Using DHCP with manual address”
3.2. Click on the IP address and use inet address (192.168.2.1)+1 –should be 192.168.2.2
3.3. Type your router address in the DNS server block (see item 2.1)
3.4. click apply — you are done with configuring the computer
4. XBOX setup (For my example I am using Directv HD DVR, but items should be the same)
4.1. IP address should be a non-conflicting IP address. If you used 192.168.2.2 in step 3.2, then add 1 more (192.168.2.3)
4.2. Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
4.3. Default gateway = the number from item 3.2
4.4. DNS server will be your router IP address from item 2.1
Hope this helps some of you. If you need clarification on anything I have done, let me know. I will try to answer whatever I can and
—I have done the steps listed in this forum so if all else fails, give this a try and repeat my steps. **** http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360 ****
Also try configuring your computer first before connecting your ethernet to your xbox.
Ferris you’re a hero
THIS WORKED FOR ME AFTER TRYING FOR HOURS:
When you’re done doing the internet sharing (airport through ethernet etc.) click on the lock on the left side which stops any changes from happening.
then close system prefs
ok i did everything tested the connection and everything worked. but when i went to go on xbox live it told me i needed an update i click yes and it told me it could not complete the update and to check my connection? wtf?
yo my ip address and all that other stuff keeps changeing wtf?
Look as Ferris’ comment
worked for me.
I’m using a Macbook, version 10.6 and a new xbox purchased winter 2009. I found that the link at the bottom was not necessary.
thanks!
Ok, so I have read through the thread a few times and it seems like quite a few people a problem with the NAT showing up as strict or moderate (as I am), yet there are no responses with directions on how to fix this. If someone could post some, that would be great.
I read that I need to connect the correct ports for forwarding in your internet gateway for the 360's IP address. What does this mean and how do I do it?
thanx so much u saved me alot of money
I repeat, Ferris is a hero.
Here’s how I solved the problem:
1: Follow this: **** http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360 ****
2: go through Ferris’ directions. They key for me was the conflict with the router address and the inet address. Be sure they do not conflict and you should be good.
FERRIS YOU ARE MY MAN. I have been trying this for about 6 hours total and finally, i realized its all about the router and inet address not being the same. YAYAYAYAYAY
Thank you SO goddamned much. Excuse my language, but I feel it’s the only way to let my expression show.
All hail King Ferris!
Yeahhhhhhhhh buddy. Very happy about this my friend!
Glad it worked out for you guys!!!
thank you, thank you, thank you
I don’t know why this doesn’t work for me, on a hotel internet connection, have mac connected on airport, got the inet #, router IP #, typed it all in and test with an error before the network icon. More info says “Can’t connect to your network hardware using a static IP address.” Is there any sol’n? I’m on OS 10.6 btw and thanks in advance!
Alright We finally got two xboxs on the same router working while plugged into two diffrerent mac computers using internet sharing thanks to ferris’ post on dec 9th, but now the second xbox wont let the player join any partys on xbox live and i think it has to do with us changing his ip address…….
any ideas or solutions?
When i tried this it worked great. But now after a few days my Xbox is no longer connecting to Xbox Live. I went back and checked all the settings for everything on both my macbook and my xbox and everything is the same. Any suggestions?
i cannot get the network to show on the 360itll never connect or show it… i use a wireless hook up for my 360 but i got more bars on the comp so i want those used instead…how i get the network to show am i not doing a step right?
I try to type in the subnet mask 225.225.225.0 and an error shows up on the xbox screen that says “The subnet mask you entered is not valid. This address must be in format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Any suggestions?
I <3 Ferris
My connection from xbox to network works, but internet fails! I’ve had it working before but now it won’t let me connect. Please help, I know I did all the steps right!
oh and btw i run 10.6.2 if that helps any. Please tell me how to fix i tried all strategeys in comments none worked! PLZ POST TO HELP ME!
okai, when i try to connect to Xbox Live, it tells me that my DNS is the problem. is there something you can do to help me out? Thanks
dear
we followed carefully all your instructions and we conected was sucess.
thanks a lot for your time to wrote down all the details.
thanks
Alain
Ok I got it working if u folo all the steps and internet still won’t connect then u set everything to automatic test then set to manual again ur settings should be saved then u just test again thnx a lot for all ur help guys
hey im really getting frustrated. i am at a UCSB and im trying to get this xbox live to work. it was working for about a week and somehow it stopped. i tried your method and it didnt work. it said the internet failed. PLEASE HELP. PLEASE
doesn’t work for me, my xbox won’t connect at all. tested and my internet and network runs fine. what am i doing wrong?
well, if the step to connect to xbox live is failing, u need to download a program, idk what it is but try flash player, shockwave, and javascript. If none are connecting on test connection (viewed on the xbox) then it means u did the steps wrong.
oh and if the network to internet fails, and u r runnin 10.6.2 then set everything to automatic, test, then set everything manually again. If u run an older version than 10.6 folo some of the comments above.
ok jordan, i need 2 know the software of ur cpu
Well jordan…
need help with this. i did everything it told me to. when i test network is fine then it goes to find pc. then it says pc not listed. what do i do?
Ok, I was able to connect the 360>Network and Network>Internet…. but my Internet wont connect to Xbox Live…. (Internet x Xbox Live) The suggestions my 360 gives is restart router and wait 30 sec…. and they it also says my router or ISP may be blocking access to Xbox Live. What do I do?
Let me know if you can help, thanks.
well, all i know is how to fix the internet fail step. Set ur secondary DNS to 0.0.0.0 or nothing. If Xbox live fails, call your cable company, they might be blocking it.
Well, u hit test xbox live connection not test PC connection.
hmmm mines working perfectly thank you very much
Ferris you beauty – works like a dream! Follow Ferris’s tips and itll work no problem!!!Thanks man
it took almost twelve trys but finally worked
my question is not 100 relevant to the xbox thing, but ive just managed to share my internet through AirPort, from my mac mini, and Internet is working flawlessly on my MacBook, one question i have, does the main server (mac mini) must be on for the internet to be working through AirPort,
thanks heaps
I connected my xbox through my mac for the first time the other day and followed the process at the top of the page. Everything worked fine the test connected and I signed up for xbox live. The next day however when I went to log in it wouldn’t work and when i tried to renter the same details (ip address, DNS etc) into the network configuration screen it said the DNS server can’t resolve the names of the xbox LIVE servers or xbox.com. The just keeps sending round in circles getting me to turn the router on and off and change the setting from manual to automatic then when that doesn’t work manual again. Anyone else had this or no how to fix it.
Same problem. If network to internet fails set the secondary DNS to 0.0.0.0 then you should be good.
Iv’e tried every solution above (really iv’e read though them all) and nothing has changed. As almost everyone has reported “it worked fine at first but then it did not work” that was the problem for me. the problem started after 1 day when the nat became moderate then after a weeks time the internet failed. I still can obtain a network connection but how do that help me? My error message is “Your dens severs cannot connect to xbox.com severs, ” I have tried all the possible DNS listed above. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. (note i call xbox and they said it was out of their support boundary!)
dude, i called xbox too, what software r u runnin? If it’s snow leopard then just follow the original steps, except change the secondary DNS to 0.0.0.0 and it should work. If ur runnin something older (or if that advice didn’t work) then all i can do to help u is turn of xbox, cpu then router, wait 30 secs then turn on in the opposite order. That should work and i hope it helps.
So there is no way a DIRECT connect using an Ethernet cord (Xbox to Mac)?
read the original post…yes there is
if u r still havin some trouble follow the last few comments
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!
So im trying those steps that Ferris posted but i do not understand what the 4th step is telling me to do: “Open /tmp/bootpd.plist for editing using TextEdit or whatever.”
How or where do i “open /tmp/bootpd.plist” for editing in textedit!?!?!?!?!?
PLEASE HELP!
4th coment helped so much!!!! i just used the numbers he used and not my own and it worked!!!!!!!! =)
I have two inet numbers. What does this mean?
I’ve tried following this step by step. I figure one of these is my computer and the other is my xbox.
So far, I still can’t get past the DNS part for my xbox.
inet 169.254.31.96
inet 192.168.2.1
AAron, Use the 192.68.2.1 number.
All, Make sure that your router IP address isn’t the same as your Inet #
I created a quick excel doc that when you plug in your numbers, it will output what you need to plug into the xbox. Hope it helps.
http://rapidshare.com/files/348415522/mac-to-xbox.xls.html
Ferris i love you!
mine stopped working after a while of not using the xbox
now it works again!
thanks a lot!
I get the the pc part but it won’t let me select one since my computer thing isn’t popping up.
Help and plz give me some suggestions.
i need some serious help. My router was not getting internet so i changed my source on system prefs>network to something i made. I changed it back and now my internet step is failing again. Can anyone help?
Hey if anyone is still looking for a solution you might want to watch this video and try it, i finally got my live working woo!
dude u need to post the video link
oh and i edited the ip and dns on system prefs network then ethernet which got my live working
ok, soo i found out that by connecting your xbox 360 via ethernet cable to your mac an error may appear while testing the connection. The error im talking about is the DNS server cannot resolve the names… ect.. If u go back to System Preferences > Network Sharing, turn sharing off, wait about 10 seconds, and turn it back on and test the connection again, it connects, but comes up with NAT settings set to strict.
Heres where i need some help from you guys…
With the NAT settings set to strict, i cant join certain party chats because the NAT settings vary depending on how you connect to your internet source. i need to know how to change my NAT settings to open..
is this possible?
if u have a solution for me, email me at: BlaznDemLs@yahoo.com/
I would realy appreciate any feedback on this one, and im sure lots of other ppl would too.
Thanks so much for this! I’d been trying for a couple of days with no luck to get my xbox online (and no help from my service provider who simply gave me a new set of DNS numbers that made no difference).
After reading your post I followed the instructions and was online in 5 minutes.
It’s ingenius – essentially allowing your xbox to piggy back off your laptop’s web connection.
Thanks so much!
Thanks, this is an awesome alternative than buying a 100 dollar wireless adapter. Did anyone else get a message, something about NAT and how in might aftect my gaming experience? works great though.
didnt work, i did everything right, god, im stuck with using my gay pc and constantly dying in cod due to bad connection
My present accommodation provides wireless based internet access only and it requires that you first log in to a web based authentication page (via a browser) before it will allow your browser full access the internet.
This system only allows one (1) concurrent connection, which means that at any point only my wife’s Vista PC or my own Mac mini can be connected (wirelessly) to the Internet.
I obviously would like to have more than one concurrent connection to the internet and so, having first turned off the wireless on my wifes Vista based laptop, I’ve been endeavoring to connect her laptop to my Mac mini via an RJ45 (straight or crossover?) cable and have it share my Mac mini’s wireless connection to the Internet.
I’m running Mac OSX 10.6.2 on a Mac Mini
My wife is running Vista Home Premium SP2 on a high end Sony Vaio.
I have turned off the firewall on her laptop.
I have a normal RJ45 cable and a crossover cable.
I do not have access to the buildings router (as that’s owned by the landlord).
The details of my Mac mini AirPort connection are:
IPv4 Address: 192.168.2.97 <– dynamically assigned
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.2.50
DNS Servers: 192.168.2.2
Search domains: aldas.com
NetBios Name: MACMINI
Workgroup: Workgroup
Given that I can manually assign the IP settings on the Ethernet adapters of the Mac mini and the Vista laptop… does anybody have any suggestions as to what I should set the relevant IP fields on each machine, so that the Vista Laptop can share the wireless connection being provided my the Mac mini… and / or any other things one should know in order to make this work?
Cheers,
Tony
Dom W on August, Thank you! worked like a charm.
Have recently upgraded to osx 10.6 and this dosent seem to work any more (it worked fine in 10.4, the data i get from terminal is ‘administrators-computer:~ andrewbayley$ inconfig en0
-bash: inconfig: command not found
administrators-computer:~ andrewbayley$ ifconfig en0
en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500
inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
inet6 fe80::217:f2ff:fec6:9eb7%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×4
inet 169.254.138.211 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
ether 00:17:f2:c6:9e:b7
media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active
supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 1000baseT 1000baseT 1000baseT none
administrators-computer:~ andrewbayley$
‘
and my router address is 192.168.2.1
i looked at the instructions at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360 but these seem to make no sense to me!
Thanks
Thanks, I got my mac 10.6.2 sharing internet fine with my xbox, sick and perverted thing is that when doing the connection check it says my NAT settings are too strict and it will limit my Xbox live gameplay and I won’t be able to use the voice chat feature.
I rang my ISP, to change modem settings, he wasnt sure, does anybody know a solution please?
Thanks a heap for the tip by the way, saved me 100 bucks, greedy microsoft could have put a wireless receiver in for next to nothing
Thanks a lot for nameservers:
“nameserver 192.168.2.1
nameserver 209.18.47.61
nameserver 209.18.47.62″
It work perfect!
Andy. You want to use the 192.168.2.1 inet
you will need to log into your router and change the address of it to something else like 192.168.0.1 –right now your Inet and router address are the same.
All. I am trying to figure out how to fix the NAT issue
Ferris thank you for explain me it!
Ok. so I’ve been entering everything alright so far. However, my xbox will pass the IP and DNS test, but then will fail the MTU test. How do I fix this?
I got mine to work by just connecting my xbox to my modem which is connected to my airport and the other stuff and it worked.
So I’ve followed all of the steps, and my xbox passes network and internet. At first it would fail at the Xbox Live part of the test. Not it says that my NAT is moderate. I thought I could deal with that, but moderate NAT doesn’t allow me to do anything, I can’t d/l demos or videos, can’t preview new games, absolutely nothing, making Xbox Live completely pointless. I just keep getting “Can’t retrieve information try again later, code: 8007274c.” SO…how do I fix this moderate NAT thing? Help would be amazing. Definitely do not have the money for the ridiculous $100 adapter.
Email if you prefer: huffje at gmail . com
everytime i try doing this the network to internet wont work what can i do?
Network won’t connect to the internet.
Mine was working perfectly after following this tutorial a month ago. Then tonight I tried to connect and it failed. Sadtimes.
After lots of fiddling it worked, although I’m still getting the NAT error so would appreciate help on that (I don’t get the NAT error if I .
Use terminal and ifconfig en0 to get your ip address, use system prefs->network->airport->tcp/ip->router to get that address if you need it, but for the gateway I have found it better to use the inet address from terminal. Use this same address for Prim and Sec DNS.
So my settings are:
IP address 192.168.2.8 (the 8 is because there are lots of devices on my network)
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.2.1
Primary DNS Server 192.168.2.1
Secondary DNS Server 192.168.2.1
NOTE ALSO that these settings didn’t work until I had a) restarted my router (could be coincidental) b) turned off internet sharing and turned on again and c) ONLY selecting Ethernet in the sharing preferences NOT ethernet adaptor en3
Hope this is helpful (and keeps working…)
Alright, so I got everything to work after a while. my biggest problem was the DNS passing (as was the problem for most of you). The problem i found was: when i opened my terminal i got two nat areas. And i was putting in the first one into my ip address which was wrong, i needed to put the second one (which was easily recognized as simpler numbers: the one i was using was like 192.255.239.143 or something like that, and the one below it was 192.168.2.1 mucchh easier)
After that, using that simpler number for my dns, it worked. But now im running into the problem a lot of other people are having: the NAT type issue.
If someone, anyone, can post a walkthrough for the NAT from moderate to open, I would love you forever. And probably send you like a bag of skittles in the mail.
Not really.
But maybe email a pic of skittles.
You can email me if you prefer, —->> Timzig94@aol.com
Or post a reply on here.
If I get an email, i will repost on here so that everyone else can get the same help.
Thanks!
Okay, I am getting the same can’t connect to the internet error. I am running 10.6.2.
I followed the tips on the machints link that keeps being posted, and i’ve insured that the number stayed at 0, and didn’t default back to 4. I tried my subnet and router addresses are completely different, so they shouldn’t be causing any conflict. Also most of the tutorials have been for earlier mac versions, where the user interfaces are hard to follow. so if anyone has any suggestions specific to mac os x 10.6.2 that would be great
i got mine set up but my NAT type is strict, will this stop me playing modern warfare 2 online?????
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just got it to work. same thing. it said DNS failed. however the problem was actually the IP address and the gateway address. use the following and you should be fine.
IP address: 192.168.2.2
Subnet Mask:255.255.255.0
Gateway:192.168.2.1
DNS Primary Server: 192.168.0.1
DNS Secondary Server:192.168.0.1
the xbox suggestions are always wrong. Go with this, you should get it
ok ive tied everything this is my situation if i plug up my ethernet cord to my zoomx6 gatway modem/router the internet cuts off it wus working for awhile then it just stoped.. i tried switching ethernet cables FAIL ive called the AT&T (my network provider) FAIL ive called xbox live FAIL the only time the internet works with my ethernet cable in the modem is when my xbox360 is off but the second i turn it on the DSL light flashes and it shuts down my internet until i unplug my ethernet cable plz send my tips/solutions if u kno what is wrong
my email address is Scoti1171@yahoo.com
i have followed all of the steps and it was working fine yesterday but the ive turned it on today and it not working
any pointers????
iv gotten mine to work just fine; but the problem is that im in my dorm room and we are running off of wireless connections and when i run the connecting through my cord to my xbox i get a moderate connection. is there anyway to make my connection stronger?
i got a usb virgin mobile broadband help plz
Is anyone encountering problems since the most recent update to 10.6.3 ?
Everything was FINE with me, I’d been using this method with success for a year… but after running the new OSX software update, a lot of my stuff has gone kaflooey, and I can no longer connect to the net via Ethernet… ???
Thx in advance!
Just deactivate and activate the internet sharing in your system preferences. That should do the trick. Otherwise try to disable the ipv6 configuration in your network Settings for your airport connection. I’ve done these 2 things and it is working again.
I followed your initial direction and they worked great for a couple weeks, but I got up today and tried logging on to xbox live, well it said i had a connection problem so i followed the xbox directory instructions to reset router and hub. didnt work so i checked the IP address and all that and My IP address keeps changing and every time i redoo your orriginal instructions using the new code it doesnt work, I even set the IP code manually to the orriginal and tried to connect it didnt work so For hours ive tried stuff like this with no success please assist or I will go crazy lol.
Logan
Worked perfectly first go…….. Thanks
Hey
I tried this and it worked great.
Thanks a lot.
But now I`m living in Germany and have to use a Vodafone Surf Stick. Only have to enter “ifconfig” instead of “ifconfig en0″ and then I see the number following “inet”
Everything is fine till the step when I have to enter the DNS in my XBox , because the IP of my Surf Stick is for example something like 10.0.0.1
My XBox tells me that I`m not allowed to enter a DNS-IP containing a “0″
Anybody who can help me?
And yes I know that playing over UMTS is not the best -.-`
Thanks
its not reading my ip address
scroll up what jim said is PERFECT! To a point. Go to network settings> tcp/ip
youll see ips take the router one and use that for your dns on your 360 “Or on your mac if you always get a safarai cannot connect to xxx because it cant find the server xxx
if that doesnt work use the other ip I do ot however know about the nat types. I have my firewall disabled and am still having problems. Hope this helped.
-Silient gamertag XxSilientxX
if you have anymore problems after doing what i said have a friend contact me on XBL I’d be happy to help if i can.
Hey i got my network to work it just wont recognize my pc (well really my mac) wat should i do.
nvm i figured this shit out htanks a lot for whoever created this
so ive been having the DNS problem for a while where every so often i cant get LIVE to work at all though my mac, typically i just end up waiting days or weeks till it starts working again. well today was another one of those days but i found out how to fix it!!!!!
in system preferences go to internet sharing and just reset it (off, then on) and immediately LIVE works!!1
thank you SO much. i just bought an xbox360 today and was worried id have to fry another $100 on that dumb adapter microsoft sells. thanks to your guide (and the fact that i have this macbook) i just finished acquiring my internet connection. thanks for saving me $100 or having to by 200 feet of ethernet cable and making my family hate me for lacing it throughout my house. the guide worked to perfection and i am indebted to you good sir
I just discovered a little glitch in how internet sharing was turned on that seems to be the source of all my woes with regards to getting it to connect to the internet.
Unless you see the dialog box that asks for “Are you sure you want to turn on Internet Sharing”, you are not really sharing the internet connection. I went through every possible DNS, and every IP change, and I can tell you that this does work.
A few key highlights.
– for DNS, use the IP address returned from running the terminal command cat /etc/resolv.conf – using an Apple TimePort, this is generally 10.0.1.1 – if you have a linksys, this is likely to be 192.168.1.1 unless you have changed it yourself
– for the manual IP address, use a different set of numbers – for mine, where my DNS was 10.0.1.1, I chose to use 192.168.2.1 for the manual IP address of my ethernet connection, which was different then the airport IP address of my macbook which was 10.0.1.12
So what was happening is that I thought I was turning on the Internet sharing, and it never really stuck – meaning, I would go back and look at it in the preferences pane and it was off. So I finally turned all sharing off and then turned it back on and I was given the “are you sure” prompt. Once I got this and clicked yes, it worked perfectly.
hi,
xbox live is up and running all thanks to your expert advice
but problem is the NAT error, how do i remove that?
someone suggested some firewall stuff but i dont understand
i have a macbook so suggest on mac
btw, this article has been a great help after everything had failed coz my ISP doesnt support xbox live and xbox customer care was also clueless
so just help me 1 last time with this NAT thing
Hi
I used this method for about 6 months and got great xbox live.
One day, I pulled my laptop while the cable was still connected. Next time I tried to go on live, the connection would fail from Xbox 360 to Network, which convinced me I had one of three problems: I damaged the cable, I damaged the xbox ethernet port, I damaged my laptop ethernet port. I got a new cable, it still didnt work, so its either the xbox 360 or my macbook. Any suggestions?
thanks!
Alex
Thank you so much for this tutorial!
It works great and now i know why i love my mac so much
Hey.. thanks… it worked.
I was using these directions and it was working like a charm. Then for some reason, it kept saying that my DNS wasn’t working.
I then plugged my ethernet cable into my girlfriend’s mac, and it worked right away (and I did not change any settings).
Any thoughts?
About the internet sharing:
I followed all these steps and finally i got the network to connect, but the internet wont. Im pretty sure its because when i try to turn on the internet sharing, it just wont work at all. I put in the correct DNS code everyone says to put in, but i still cannot turn on the internet
PLEASE HELP!
*Internet sharing
Here is an idea……BUY THE NEW XBOX 360 SLIM! Built in wifi people! and if you trade in all your stuff from your old xbox you could end up paying only $100! Plus its got many great new features. For those of you with an old Xbox, I strongly recommend it as it hits american stores this week.
This would also remove the NAT error people, just another thought
If you really don’t want to do this here is my fix (and a story)…I live right on the water and I was woken up one day by my mom. She said we had to evacuate there might be a tsunami coming! So I got all my stuff and went to a friend’s house uphill. I had my xbox and my computer and since we were there a few days, i tried to hook up xbox live. I just changed the ip address and it wouldn’t work, so i told my self to forget it and reset to my old details. When I got home, everything was how it used to be, but…i couldn’t connect to the internet! OMG! Anyways…i entered this……i went into system prefs>network>ethernet and set the ip and gateway to enter manually. I set the ip to 192.168.2.1 or whatever your ip is and the gateway to 255.000.000.000. I then went onto my xbox and typed in my ip for both dns things. Now i have 4 bar connection and moderate nat. I can download anything i want, but im getting the new xbox soon (its my birthday) and i just wanted to share this info.
sorry for the gateway in the cpu 255.255.0.0 or whatever and im runnin 10.6.3
I could not get xbox live on my xbox 360 and so i need help going through
When I tested the connection it said it couldn’t connect to xbox live because my “NAT type is moderate,” and I need an “open NAT configuration.” I’m not even sure what that means, can you help with this issue. Everything works except the connection to live.
Worked the first time like a charm!!!!
Thanks man!!
Simple instructions easy to follow.
i have been fighting with this for the past 2 hours or so and finally found the configuration that worked if you do not deviate from this set up it might work for you too
address 192.168.2.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.2.0
broadcast 192.168.2.255
gateway 192.168.2.1
Thanks a lot dude – you’ve just saved me £50! And the instructions were really clear for us mere mortals.
Awesome tutorial, worked first time and has had no flaws.
The only thing is that ZUNE movie downloads seem to take way longer than any xbox live updates or game demos. Could be because it’s on a diff server, would that have anything to do with port forwarding etc?
Hi there, really interresting option, however my problem is a bit more difficult
I’ve done the same steps as you in the beginning:
- Using my macbook pro to caputre a WiFi-Signal and broadcasting it to the ethernet cable.
However there I did connect a Airport express instead of a computer which is broadcasting it’s own wifi.
So far my airport recognizes the connection to the computer and my other notebook finds the wifi of the airport express. so everything is “in order”.
however when I try to use the internet its just searching and not displaying anything (on the macbook pro it works fine).
I’ll give you the configurations now and would be really happy if you have any suggestion:
Macbook pro (using DHCP)
IP 192.168.1.25
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Router 192.168.1.1
DNS: 192.168.1.1; 62.42.63.52; 62.42.230.24
Outgoing port: 192.168.2.1
Airport incoming (manual):
IP: 192.168.2.2
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.2.1
DNS: 192.168.1.25; 192.168.1.25
Airport Outgoing (DHCP):
10.0.1.1 – 10.0.1.254
2nd Notebook (DHCP):
IP 10.0.1.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
router: 10.0.1.1
DNS: 10.0.1.1; 192.168.1.25; 192.168.1.1; 62.42.63.52; 62.42.230.24
Especially with the DNS I’m really unsecure but I tried several options.
whats your opinion, is such a build up even possible or no?
Thanks so much man no luck with the connection until I read and followed your simple instructions. You’re a real help to us who are macintosh challenged, keep it up!
If anyone is still having the problem getting the internet to connect (because of the DNS error)…. Just enter the DNS from the computer you are tethering the connection to. So on your mac go into internet settings and see what the primary and secondary DNS is set as. Then just enter those into your xbox’x DNS settings.
So our friend isaac finally is able to explain this. If there is dns troubles then follow the first post except set your primary and seconday dns’s to what ever you put in system prefs network ethernet dns server. If you leave it blank the adress will be all 0′s
hi,
i have one problem , my xbox says that MTU failed…
i followed the guide, but i don’t get it …
(my english isn’t good)
greatzz
What language do you speak? Ill put the post in my translator. Hope this helpas
Hey if you’re having trouble connecting your MACBOOK PRO to your 360, check out these instructions! They worked for me (and I had the same connecting to network but not the internet problem).
http://uneasydan.com/2010/07/23/sharing-macbook-internet-connection-with-xbox-360/
I was curious if anyone found a fix for the NAT configuration problem. I see that others have had it as well, with the configuration showing up as moderate instead of open. We have two xbox 360′s in my home, one that connects via a wireless adapter and one that I connect to the internet through my laptop (which I was able to do thanks to this tutorial). For some reason, the wireless adapter one connects fine with an open NAT, but the one through my laptop remains a moderate NAT. Any possible hints or solutions or anything at all? I would fall madly in love with you and shower you with inappropriate contact if you did.
@Jake
Unfortunately there is no fix for this problem. It is a result of using a laptop to connect your xbox to the internet. You receive a moderate NAT type because your connection is being translated through two levels; your laptop and your router. Going directly to the router is the only way to get an open NAT type, because it’s then only one level of processing. But in my experience I haven’t had a problem having a moderate NAT, so it still isn’t worth it to me to buy a wireless adapter to fix it. Though I can’t say it doesn’t bother me…
Anyway, hope this saves you the wasted time trying things to fix it. :]
@David, you have crushed my dreams. No, I’m kidding. I appreciate you letting me know. I kind of figured that was more or less the issue, but I was hoping there was a way around it. The only reason it’s a problem I want to fix is because I want to connect with some friends who are stuck behind a strict NAT connection (at college) and I can’t unless I have an open NAT. It’s not a serious problem, as I have the other xbox that has an open NAT, but it would be nice since I use the one through my laptop more often.
Perhaps I can pose this question and see if anyone knows. I have an extra router no longer in use since I recently purchased a better one for our home network. I was thinking maybe I could use the router and hook it up to the xbox and connect to the wireless that way. Possible? Any suggestions?
idk if anyone has answered the internet failing question yet because i was to lazy to read everything but if you just turn off the internet sharing then turn it back on it should work, whenever that happens i do that and it always works for me
Hey there, I’ve followed all your steps and have cleared the network phase of the test but it stops me at internet and says my DNS server can’t resolve the names of the xbox live servers or xbox.com. I’ve tried entering my router IP, my computer’s IP, and the DNS numbers from the TCP/IP info on my mac but nothing’s worked.
I’m in a college dorm that is entirely wireless-n with WPA2 enterprise (which my new 360 slim conveniently doesn’t seem to support, it can’t even see the network.)
Any suggestions? Your help would be much appreciated!
This is what i was searching for. My new XboX having problem with connectivity but now it get solved. Thanks to this article.
i read this whole article and tried all of ferris’ ideas and im still not getting the internet to connect to my xbox. im at college right now and im using their wireless system in the dorms, and the router ip adress is 128.205.11.254 and idk if that is correct and ive tried to put in into the primary and secondary dns servers in the configure network screen and it still is saying that i can not connect. any suggestions please comment back. any help is appreciated! Thanks
For some reason when I go to internet sharing there is no “To computers using ethernet” option after I select “Share your connection from Airport”. There is only a firewire option. Can some one please help. I am using Version 10.6.4 if that makes a difference and I am using an intel macbook.
I am also getting connected to the network but it fails to connect to the Internet. My IP is 169.254.47.159 so for !P i put a 0 instead of 9 right? also I get the whole your DNS server can’t resolve the names of the Xbox live servers or xbox.com. I found my DNS servers and three of them came up. I used all of them and none of them worked. My firewall is off. I’m stumped and I do not want to run an ethernet cable from downstairs up through my apartment.
Worked first try, Thank You I have been trying to figure this out ever since i moved into the dorms
my inet is currently 169.254.224.102 so when i type it into the ip section like you said it doesn’t work
i was having the same problem as a lot of others- i couldn’t connect to the internet because of DNS issues. after fiddling with numbers for like an hour, all i did was disable internet sharing and then re-enable sharing on my mac. i would suggest trying that!
DUDEEEE I LOVE YOUUU! nooobody else could help me cuz i was doing it through a mac and a aircard but you just murdereddddd it bro!!!!!! THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH IDN HOWU NO ALL THAT SHIT BUT UR A DOGGGGG!
WIISHH I KNEW THIS B4 I BOUGHT THE F-ING USELESS THING
P.S. havent tried your way yet so hope it wrks out wish me luck =P
does anyone know how to do it wit an adapter??
I got it to work for a while and now its refusing to connect. No matter what I do or how many times I redo it it says Your DNS server can’t resolve the names of the Xbox live servers or Xbox.com
Heres my info and what I have set up:
Inet: 169.254.31.46
Router: 192.168.1.1
What I have iun settings is:
Ip address: 169.254.31.47
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 169.254.31.46
DNS (Primary and secondary)
192.168.2.1
(Also tried 192.168.1.1)
What am I doing wrong? How do I fix this?
same here degan it just is now refusing to resolve
p.s. how do u forward the port to make the NAT open?
Thanks, this helped me out so much.
Comment Number 4!!!! JIM IS THE mo fizziuckin MAN!!! I entered every thing exactly as he put it and…CONNECTED! running OSX 10.5.8
Connect to XBOX LIVE through mac
Mac Settings
Manually
Ip: 10.0.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Turn internet sharing with ethernet on…( I’m sure you have seen the videos…when they frustratingly don’t work for you???)
Xbox settings
Ip: 10.0.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 10.0.0.1
DNS settings on xbox(always the problem)
Primary : Routers IP address found at:(System preferences – Network – Airport – Advanced – TCP/IP – Router)
Secondary: Your Internet Service providers DNS address can be found by doing the following:
Terminal – Enter this: cat /etc/resolv.conf
then the number you want will be next to the second ‘Namesever’ Line
Enter that in Secondary Dns on the Xbox 360, then try your connection.
Hope this helps anyone else still struggling.
I tried this and it doesn’t work, so I found this;
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/17/how-to-share-your-macs-internet-connection-with-your-xbox/
It worked for me,
Enjoy
My firewall is turned off and i still have a nat type is strict error what now?
Man I’m an IT and I can’t get this to work, set everything manually, then tried using DHCP neither worked. They both recognize each other but won’t make the connection. I can even see traffic across the connection when I send a ping. This seems like a software issue to me. Any suggestions?
Comment 4 worked for me!! And I tried everything! Thank goodness… try that if DNS isn’t working.
Does my mac always have to be on? for example, when im done playing my xbox and browsing xbox live, can i turn my mac off?
does this slow the connection at all? between the router to Mac? or Mac to xbox?
Rich,
recently I have learned that the only way to establish the connection to xbox live and keep it is to go from your internet provider directly to your xbox. for example, i have time warner cable wireless internet service. i connect my xbox via ethernet cord to the router. trust me it is the only way to have live without buying the wireless adapter for your xbox. i’ve been fighting with the mac and DNS errors for the past month. it does not work. the reason why everyone gets and error or slow connection is because macs are obviously not compatible with microsoft.
I have followed all of these different instructions, and the xbox live connection works fine. Today I bought CoD Black Ops but cant connect to a number of games.
Has anyone been able to find out how to get an OPEN NAT when connected through a mac mini/wireless connection? My setup is this: xbox connected to mac mini via ethernet cable. Internet sharing, web sharing on, and connected wireless to Verizon FiOS router. I have even gotten into the router settings to try to DMZ, but no luck.
Please help to explain how to get an OPEN NAT with the above setup. Thanks.
scotprice@hotmai.com
Thanks, very helpful.
D
Just hope the speed is going to be sufficient for some fun gameplay.
ok, i found out something about using my labtop and how to be able to get it to resolve, instead of using the ip as 192.168.2.2 i used 192.168.2.106 and it resolved it after about 2 months of not being able to
Does this thing work if the computer is closed or asleep?????
Just put windows on your Mac and all u have to do is pull up the Internet settings and highlight wireless and Ethernet and right click to select bridge Connection. Simple as that. No numbers no configurations or anything (:
What if im connecting via an ethernet cable through my dorm’s internet, i dont have wifi setup but is it true that I can get a crossover cable and run the connection through that, if so can you go over the steps of what to do after i’ve purchased the crossover cable? Please help
Thanks! Son forgot to bring his wireless adapter and this worked like a champ! Using an old IBook G4 to connect.
Thank you soooo much, your awesome! have a great life!
so i hooked it up like this and it worked for a couple days now when i go to get on live it fails and when i test it it says “your dns server cant resolve the names of the xbox live servers or xbox.com” what do i do, this really sucks
Worked like a charm
had a problem where it said my DNS server couldn’t resolve the xbox servers. Used adamwetsch’s fix and typed in “cat /etc/resolv.conf” into the terminal and used the first two nameserver numbers respectively as my primary and secondary DNS servers. Worked like a charm.
I did this and it worked perfect for one day, then the next day i had really bad lagging on my xbox live play…when i did my connection test, everything passed except for x box live connection. a thing pops up about my NAT setting…but i changed that already and it still lags…what do i do?
Thank you so much! You saved me from a huge headache/ a mild tantrum. Thank you!
I saw this video on youtube and was skeptical seeing how it didn’t ask to check any of my addresses. However, just follow everything on this video and it should work, just don’t ask why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0IsFDoceo&feature=related
none of these workkeeps saying dns cant resolve xbox live or xboxlive.com
this does not work at all for me.. theres no inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx number in my terminal.
Works great thanks!!!!
After hours of research, and time on the phone with xbox, apple, and my internet provider my son is playing online right now via my imacs internet sharing. You have to find the ip address of your mac’s internal router. Tricky. Noticed many of you are not getting the ip address after typing ifconfig en0. The instructions I followed were slightly different, and worked like a charm! So heres what you do:
Turn on Internet sharing:
select the network you want to share and share it via airport and give your network a name… set up a 5 digit WEP key if you want protection.
open terminal and type ifconfig en1
This will give you your router number, mine was 10.0.2.1, it will be listed next to the word inet
next type dig, this will give you your ISP’s DNS numbers (at the very bottom, next to the word server)
On your PS3 open the network settings, scan for your new network, enter the WEP key and configure the IP manually.
Under IP type the router number but add a digit to the last number, in other words, my router was 10.0.2.1, so I assigned my PS3 the IP 10.0.2.2
use the standard subnet mask of 255.255.0.0
enter the router number you found (10.0.2.1)
enter the DNS numbers found earlier.
MTU = Auto
Proxy Server = Do Not Use
UPnP = doesnt make a difference
and thats it, your done… im using my PS3 with my 3G mobile broadband shared via airport.
EDIT: After a PM I realised I completely left out the Airport settings part.
In Airport settings under TCP/IP select configure IPv4 via DHCP, and under DNS add your ISP’s DNS numbers that you found earlier.
For those not familiar with any of this, Internet sharing is found in the sharing folder in System Preferences. Enable sharing your internet via ethernet to computers using airport ect. Airport settings are found in the network folder in System Preferences. Click on Airport and then advanced. The terminal folder is in the Utilities folder found in Applications.
Good Luck!!!
Meant to change PS3 to XBOX 360 in above instructions. Whoops!!! Works for both!!
I cant find the ifconfig en0 in my terminal? help
how do u get this to work with the new xboxs that have built in wifi
considering that the new xboxs have BUILT IN WIFI, you won’t need to do this. Just follow the steps in the instructions manual to connect your xbox to wifi wirlessly.
Ok it says: test failed
your DNS server can’t resolve the names of the Xbox Live servers or Xbox.com
Your console has these manually define DNS settings
Primary DNS:192.168.2.1
Secondary DNS:192.168.2.1
Do you want to change these settings?
Please help.
Ok it says: test failed
your DNS server can’t resolve the names of the Xbox Live servers or Xbox.com
Your console has these manually define DNS settings
Primary DNS:192.168.2.1
Secondary DNS:192.168.2.1
Do you want to change these settings?
Please help.
Thanks a lot for this, worked perfectly:)
Cheers
Dom W you genius. They always say just turn it on and off again and it worked.
I was having the same DNS problem as loads of you and I just simply unchecked Internet sharing and rechecked it again so it said start. BINGO
Thank you!!!
Okay. Well. I dont have a router. So i would like to share my ethernet connection throught airport. So my xbox will pick up the wireless connection from my computer. I would just connect it via ethernet cable but its all the way downstairs. When i test the connection on my xbox it says it cannot find the ip address. i dont know what to do! please help! D:
Thank you sooo much for posting this help site 1st of all and to you
Jim (Feb 1st 2009) & to you
Adamwetsch on March 9th, 2009 11:16 pm
I am currently staying in a Residence Inn (for work) and just bought the XBox 360 and have a MacBook Pro that I am still not in love with, but thanks to the two of you, I am at least in the process of the initial required update.
Also honorable mention to
miles on May 12th, 2010 7:54 pm
just in case, I appreciate the heads up!
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How to set up NAS on the mac.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-configure-macosx-as-nat-router/
It’s quite tricky to do since mac osx doesn’t have an easy way to toggle open NAT and closed NAT
ive done it b4 but cant seem 2 do it again
guys read comment 4 and copy his info it works
This worked for me yesterday but today I plugged my xbox in and it will only connect to the network not the internet. My internet is working fine as you can see from this post.
Thanks for any help
Dude I love you. I have been trying to get live for a year. Now I got it without wasting $100. Thank you very much.
THANK YOU “j-mans mama” !!! I LOVE YOU!!!!! Worked like a charm!
“After hours of research, and time on the phone with xbox, apple, and my internet provider my son is playing online right now via my imacs internet sharing. You have to find the ip address of your mac’s internal router. Tricky. Noticed many of you are not getting the ip address after typing ifconfig en0. The instructions I followed were slightly different, and worked like a charm! So heres what you do:
Turn on Internet sharing:
select the network you want to share and share it via airport and give your network a name… set up a 5 digit WEP key if you want protection.
open terminal and type ifconfig en1
This will give you your router number, mine was 10.0.2.1, it will be listed next to the word inet
next type dig, this will give you your ISP’s DNS numbers (at the very bottom, next to the word server)
On your PS3 open the network settings, scan for your new network, enter the WEP key and configure the IP manually.
Under IP type the router number but add a digit to the last number, in other words, my router was 10.0.2.1, so I assigned my PS3 the IP 10.0.2.2
use the standard subnet mask of 255.255.0.0
enter the router number you found (10.0.2.1)
enter the DNS numbers found earlier.
MTU = Auto
Proxy Server = Do Not Use
UPnP = doesnt make a difference
and thats it, your done… im using my PS3 with my 3G mobile broadband shared via airport.
EDIT: After a PM I realised I completely left out the Airport settings part.
In Airport settings under TCP/IP select configure IPv4 via DHCP, and under DNS add your ISP’s DNS numbers that you found earlier.
For those not familiar with any of this, Internet sharing is found in the sharing folder in System Preferences. Enable sharing your internet via ethernet to computers using airport ect. Airport settings are found in the network folder in System Preferences. Click on Airport and then advanced. The terminal folder is in the Utilities folder found in Applications.
Good Luck!!!”
ATT: THOSE WHO CON CONNECT TO COMPUTER BUT NO FURTHER.
It worked for me this way. In the network settings, i selected “Ethernet” then i saw that the Subnet mask was not 255.255.255.0 it was 255.255.0.0, and the DNS-server was way different from my routers IP, so tried changing the DNS settings(primary and secondary) in the xbox to the DNS settings i saw before, and changed the subnet mask in the IP settings on xbox to 255.255.0.0, and then it worked
I hope this will help, sorry for my bad english, im danish.
YEs!!! it worked.. I had the same problem with the DNS- shit
Because they are two different ones-.-
I followed galvin (i think) by writing something in the terminal that gave me my DNS-server. But that Wasnt the problem. I typed the wrong Inet
inet6 fe80::222:41ff:fe2f:d637%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×4
inet 169.254.129.132 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
- I dident notice the second one -.- So if you follow him exactly, it will work
Thank you so much:) gonne play some l4d 2 with my friend.. ONLINE!!!!!!<3
if i connect my laptop to a wireless internet using one of those verizon USB port devices, can i still connect my xbox to it and do all the same shared connection steps?
Or would i even be able to plug that device directly into the back of the xbox??
For everyone that cannot figure this out it took me a couple days but I got it finally. My XBox is hooked to my Mac Book Pro through ethernet using wireless to get internet. I am in Iraq doing this so if it is possible here on a shared router it is possible anywhere. Just email me or message me. Chickun381@aim.com or find me on facebook. Bobby Bond. I will be happy to help answer questions.
You can find your DSN numbers in the network preferences under DSN. You have to make sure that your ethernet connection is turned on manual in your computer as well as your XBox. Set your ethernet to the same manual number as your computer the 192.168.2.1 will also be the number for your ethernet manual ISP. This should correct your issues. If you have questions please don’t hesitate to let me know and I will walk you through it.
This worked for me for about a week. Now it won’t network wont connect.
PLEASE HELP
HELPPPPPP
Thanks for the post BUT I followed all the steps, removed firewall bla bla did everything and it says can not find PC???????
well ive done everything correctly and it keeps giving me ‘your DNS servercant resolve the names of the xbox live servers or xbox.com” what do i do?
Thank you for sharing its a worth while to read.I must say, as significantly as I enjoyed reading what you had to say, I couldn’t help but lose interest after a while. Its as if you had a wonderful grasp around the subject matter, but you forgot to include your readers. Perhaps you should think about this from far more than one angle. Or maybe you shouldn’t generalize so substantially. Its better if you think about what others may have to say instead of just going for a gut reaction to the subject. Think of about adjusting your own thought process and giving others who may read the benefit of the doubt.
This makes connecting a mac with an xbox 360 seam so easy when in fact it isn’t,personally it drives me mad,I use ethernet cables as I don’t have wireless and a box where all the cables meet,I can have either my mac online or my xbox,not both,I never had any problems with the original xbox,but sharing the network with a 360 is a nightmare and neither my internet provider or xbox have an answer and everything talked about it on the internet assumes you are using airport and snow leopard,I use a Emac running tiger and have virtually given up.
My set up right now is:
Modem>router>Macbook Pro>Xbox 360 and it works.
BUT when i try this:
Modem>router>VPN>MBP> xbox 360
VPN works fine on the MBP but i get no internet from the 360.
think the VPN service (VPNgeeks) could have XBL blocked ?
i have a router that shares a connection with an extender. Then i get internet connection off my extender to my computer. from there the rest is the same. hook into x-box. do i need to do anything different because i have the extender? I’m not getting it to work the way the article describes. Thanks.
To solve the problem of the Xbox connecting to the network but not the internet, just turn your internet setting off and on. It should work after that.
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I’ve found that for whatever reason if you have the problem where it shuts off after you got it to work somethimes you need to go into your mac and turn off internet sharing and then turn it back on. I know this is stupid but it works
Hello there, You’ve done a fantastic job. I will definitely digg it and personally recommend to my friends. I’m confident they will be benefited from this website.
i followed this perfectly, and it worked for a while. i tried again after a few days, and it doesnt work any more. i now get a DNS error and the xbox cannot connect to the internet.
any ideas?
Well I have read other peoples posts and tried everything,maybe it depends on what mac and operating system you are using,I don’t know,but nothing works,as I said before I can have either my xbox online or my mac,not both at the same time,if I previously had my xbox online then want to go on my mac,I have to pull out the modem for a moment switch off the xbox,then switch on the mac,then I can connect to the internet no problem,then when I want to use my xbox,I do the same thing again but in reverse.
Okay. I know i am sounding redundant to a lot of you, but hear me out. I am an owner of a verizon pantech usb aircard and followed all of these steps completely (with the help of a computer wiz of course) but after a few days, it stopped working. so i read through ALL (yes all) of the comments and found the little gem that told me to turn internet sharing on and off. it then worked for a few more, but then that failed to work. now every time i try to turn it on and off it still fails. It seems to me that either the mac or the xbox realizes what you are trying to do after a while and shuts it down promptly. since then i have spent hours trying to sample all of you guys’ configurations, but to no avail. I do have an xbox 360 slim (halo reach edition if it makes a difference) and i cannot use the wireless option due to the fact that where i live, i cannot get wireless. PLEASE HELP ME OUT. i am currently running on version 10.5.8
Yesterday, i bought my new Xbox-360.I am facing some big problem with connectivity.My Xbx-360 connectivity is not working good but now i am able to understand connectivity problem.
After several attempts I finally got it work. My issue was a stupid one. When checking for my IP address using terminal, it would show up 2 IPs. I stupidly used the self-assigned ethernet IP.
I just unplugged the ethernet cable, ran ifconfig one more time and got my computer’s ACTUAL IP. It worked great.
Thanks.
Aw, this was a really nice post. In thought I would like to write like this – taking time and precise effort to make an excellent article is very rare…
That was clever. I’ll be stopping back.
There is a bundle to find out about this. You made good points also.
For anyone having the issue where you were recently able to connect to XBOX Live, and for some reason now you’re not (even though the settings have remained the same); Try this;
Go to System Preferences < Sharing <
And disable than enable "Internet Connection Sharing" 6 or so times. Make sure to do it more then once even if you haven't previously tried a solution like this.
Sharing makes no difference,I have tried it a dozen times,microsoft do it to be awkward to mac users.
Yeah, Follow the 4th comment. I did and it worked! Thanks!
Sharing doesn't work when using the new xbox model,the easiest way is to have either one online at a time,all you do is reset the modem every time,micro soft being an awkward company and anti mac have made this happen on purpose,so you can only have one online at once.
You don't have to do any of this if you're running OSX 10.7, Lion.
Just set to automatic on the xbox side for ip and DNS and share airport to ethernet on the Mac.
That's it! I just upgraded to Lion today and about freaked out when my xbox wasn't connecting.
Well not everyone is running Lion and not everyone always wants the latest thing as and when it comes out.
Thank you so much! This helped a ton, brilliant post!!
YES
IT WORKED
ok guys, i used a different tut to set this up and it worked for about a month. all of a sudden, it just stopped working. i tried tons of different tuts (including this one) and they just didn’t work anymore. I figured maybe all of the different settings i’ve put in before might be conflicting so i went to the additional settings tab and restored the network settings to the factory defaults, in the process setting everything to automatic. After being set to automatic it connected! maybe it only worked for me but if nothing works, try restoring to factory defaults
thanks for you info. i’ve been trying for a long time to get my xbox to run from internet sharing on my imac running 10.6.8. i’m in a wheelchair and had not had anyone help me hook it directly with an ethernet cord, but i just got it working by using your tutorial and the info from my ipod. i went into settings on my ipod, went into wi-fi and substituted the info in there to where you put them in the xbox and now i enjoying xbox live. thanks. i hope this helps people that can use an ipod though their wi-fi, but not their xbox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=6u2WEGWfuGA&v=6TmRhonXa5s&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_316309
this video works awesome, anyone know how to change your NAT settings?
does this work with a flatscreen imac V5?
G5*
useful information about internet sharing
I was manually setting the ip of the ethernet adapter on my mac, to force the subnet ip, but no luck. Seems like the mac generates the subnet and only shares the connection through that subnet. In my case it was 192.168.2.0 as well.
Thanks!
What if I want to connect my Xbox 360 slim to the airport what do I do? Thanks for replying
Tom Erik Thank You for ur tip
will i have to do this everytime i want to connect to xbox live? enter the ip’s and stuff?
thank you so much everyone…with everyones help from the terminal configs to the xbox and computer configs…. now i can get back on some call of duty…you guys made this gamers day
i followed the original instructions and it worked for awile now when i try to connect to the internet it says “your manually configured DNS settings may not be correct”
it worked before but i cant seem to figure it out no one els seems to have found a solution to this problem
The problem only affects the slim console connected to the internet via an ethernet cable,as with me I can either have my emac online or my xbox,not both,but when staying with friends who have a wireless system my xbox 360 slim connects no problem at all,micro soft being the typically short sighted company it is didn’t think that not all users would have WI-FI,so it you want an xbox online trouble free I advise people to buy the older console the elite or the core forget the slim.
so i figured my problem out for the dns error “your manually configured DNS settings may not be correct” all i did was turn off my internet sharing on my mac via airport to ethernet, then i turned it back on and for some reason that fixed my problem. so my theory is that because i disconnected my mac from my xbox for about 5 days i just needed to reboot the sharing.
Okay, so I get past Xbox 360 then when I get to network it wont work, it gives me this message. Your console has these manually-defined DNS settings:
Primary DNS: 192.168.1.1
Secondary DNS: 192.168.1.1
at the top it says
Your DNS server can’t resolve the names of the xbox live servers or Xbox.com
What do I do, Heres what Xbox 360 I have- Xbox 360 4GB slim, I am not using Wifi
Dear Jacob,like I said previously the slim xbox is a bugger to use online unless you have a wireless system,I have the 250GB model and basically I got my settings from my mac,I used Onyx for my settings,but you can get them from system preferences on your mac,if you get it roughly right the xbox should work,but the computer won’t,it’s a question of what is more important to be online,it’s just a matter of trial and error and a lot of patience,personally unless you want to play online with others or down load content the hassle isn’t worth it especially as you have such a small hard drive.
Hey everyone,
Figured out the problem. do everything that’s stated above in the original post, however, for the subnet you should input “255.255.0.0″ this worked right away for my mac and hopefully it will for your computer. I’m using ethernet>mac>xbox 360 in order to connect to xbox live.
Good luck