Xbox 360 over an Apple network? Help a brother out (literally!)

January 1, 2008 4:52 PM

Xbox 360 over an Apple network? Help a brother out (literally!)

My brother just got an Xbox 360 which he wants to connect to Live via an Apple Airport Express wireless router. Any advice on how to do this? Also, any recommendations for software to stream media from a Mac? I realize similar questions have been asked in the past but software etc. is always changing so I thought it worth asking again.

posted by mattholomew to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Connect360 works quite well, in my experience. It requires a 20 dollar reg code.... though, um.... I suppose that depends on your morals.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 5:01 PM on January 1, 2008

Connect360's still the place to go for serving up media from a Mac to a 360.

As for getting it online - just a moment's google-searching implies that you may have to disable security on the wireless end to get things to work. The information's a little confused, however, in part because people don't seem to know how to keep "express" and "extreme" separate.
posted by Tomorrowful at 5:02 PM on January 1, 2008

I am walking out the door, so I can't help you too much right now. I do have my 360 hooked up exactly that way. It required changing the setting of the express to bridge mode, then just plugging the 360 into via ethernet. Google "airport express bridge" and poke around.
posted by travis08 at 8:57 PM on January 1, 2008

I have an Airport Extreme with a 360, and it refuses to work in 802.11a mode with WPA. If I turn off encryption, it works. The internets seem to point to something wrong with the Apple implementation. I decided to keep my Linksys router around at 2.4Ghz for 802.11g and use the Airport for routing and 802.11a/n at 5Ghz.

yes, I know I'm a dork.
posted by jeversol at 8:12 AM on January 2, 2008