Comments on: Tutorial: Mac Internet Sharing (with Xbox 360)

By: Tim the Pimpest Pope

Tim the Pimpest Pope — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:18:39 +0000

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!

By: Joe Gallant

Joe Gallant — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:06:20 +0000

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…)

By: Jeffrey Lopez

Jeffrey Lopez — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:41:05 +0000

Network won’t connect to the internet.

By: gabe price

gabe price — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:20:06 +0000

everytime i try doing this the network to internet wont work what can i do?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:46:47 +0000

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

By: ?

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:14:23 +0000

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.

By: JWils

JWils — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:24:53 +0000

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?

By: Tweetomatic Profiteer

Tweetomatic Profiteer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:35:02 +0000

Ferris thank you for explain me it!

By: Ferris

Ferris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:21:09 +0000

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

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car insurance for high risk drivers — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:43:19 +0000

Thanks a lot for nameservers:
“nameserver 192.168.2.1
nameserver 209.18.47.61
nameserver 209.18.47.62″

It work perfect!

By: Shaun Coumbe

Shaun Coumbe — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:23:35 +0000

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

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:34:51 +0000

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

By: Nick Gardner

Nick Gardner — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:44:21 +0000

Dom W on August, Thank you! worked like a charm.

By: TonyL

TonyL — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:27:46 +0000

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

By: narlink

narlink — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:21:00 +0000

didnt work, i did everything right, god, im stuck with using my gay pc and constantly dying in cod due to bad connection

By: funkEnet

funkEnet — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:12:09 +0000

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.

By: Carl B

Carl B — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:16:46 +0000

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!

By: Josh Jenkins

Josh Jenkins — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:49:51 +0000

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.

By: Zeb

Zeb — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:33:06 +0000

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

By: Trejk

Trejk — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:19:35 +0000

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!

By: Zeb Mehring

Zeb Mehring — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:48:34 +0000

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?

By: Yuki Okada

Yuki Okada — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:44:45 +0000

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.

By: Charlie117

Charlie117 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:57:16 +0000

Ferris i love you!
mine stopped working after a while of not using the xbox
now it works again!
thanks a lot!

By: Ferris

Ferris — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:25:00 +0000

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

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:15:14 +0000

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

By: mk

mk — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:50:21 +0000

4th coment helped so much!!!! i just used the numbers he used and not my own and it worked!!!!!!!! =)

By: Kamil

Kamil — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:47:34 +0000

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!

By: Zeb Mehring

Zeb Mehring — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:32:42 +0000

if u r still havin some trouble follow the last few comments

By: Zeb Mehring

Zeb Mehring — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:32:18 +0000

read the original post…yes there is

By: Joe shmoe

Joe shmoe — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:43:09 +0000

So there is no way a DIRECT connect using an Ethernet cord (Xbox to Mac)?