I have been using Vista Media Center along with an Xbox 360 extender for months now. My setup is like this - central wired router in the basement that has our DSL modem plugged into it and then our Media Center PC and the Xbox 360 are connected via ethernet. Yesterday I had to reset the router for other reasons and since that time I haven't been able to use my 360 as an extender.

When I first tried it the Xbox told me that it couldn't connect to my PC, so I removed the existing connection and tried to recreate it. I got the 8 digit code, went up to my PC, but when I try to add the extender it tells me it can't be found. It suggests confirming the extender is on (yep), the setup key is correct (yep) and the firewall is setup for UPnP (yep - turned the firewall completely off).

When I look at my network devices I can see the Xbox 360. I know very little about networking, so I'm not sure what to try next. Any ideas? Let me know if more information is needed.

Rob

Update - I've been all over the internet in the last day trying to find a solution to this problem. I've tried a few more things, but still nothing has worked. Here are a few other things that I've tried.

I tried all 6 of the suggestions in this post: http://forums.xbox.com/11496426/ShowPost.aspx - nothing worked.

I also tried the instructions at the end of this thread: http://forums.xbox.com/12437186/ShowPost.aspx - still nothing.

Rob

roblanderson - What is the make and model of your router? Can you temporarily connect the Xbox and PC together and see if the symptoms change?

 

My router is a D-Link - model DI-624

I did try connecting the Xbox and PC together - the extender still could not be found.

Thanks!

roblanderson - what other tasks happened yesterday or the day before the Xbox could not longer connect? Did you install any 3rd party applications?

Can you check your PC's history over the last few days using the reliability and Performance Monitor?

• To launch, type perfmon.msc in the Vista "Start Search" box
• Select Montioring Tools and then click Reliability Monitor.
• Review the Software (Un)Installs for the days you began to see this issue.

 

I had our wireless company out tonight for a different reason and had them reset all of our network setup. I was able to connect the extender and the PC again, so it was an issue with the network. I'm not sure what may have caused the problem, but resetting everything allowed us to start over.

Thanks for the help.

Rob

roblanderson - glad to hear things are working.