How to connect your Mac and Xbox 360?

How to Connect Your Mac and Xbox 360

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So you have an Xbox 360 and wanna play videos on Xbox360, no wireless router nearby, but you do have a wifi-enabled Mac? In this case you can "borrow" your Mac's Internet connection. Now, as with a lot of things, if you were using a Windows PC, the process would be easy. But, for Mac, well, it get's a little tricky. No need to worry, though. This article explains the baby steps to connect your Xbox 360 to Mac OS X's Internet sharing option.

Before you start configuring, do this:

Open up Terminal (in Applications -> Utilities) - type "ifconfig en0" (zero, not a capital-o).

The part you are looking for is named "inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx".

After that, note down the IP address of your wireless router.

On Your Mac

Connect your Mac to your wireless Internet connection
Connect your Xbox 360 to your Mac via Ethernet
In System Preferences -> Sharing, enable Internet Sharing between your Airport and Ethernet connection

Note: If you wanna play Mac video to the Xbox 360, make sure the video is compatible. Learn more: stream Mac video to Xbox 360.

On your Xbox 360

Start up your Xbox and navigate to the Network settings menu
Under IP address, enter the number you got from the "ifconfig en0" command earlier on, but with the final number one place higher. In my case, I take the 192.168.2.1, and input 192.168.2.2 in the IP address box on my Xbox 360.
Under subnet, input 255.255.255.0
Under router/gateway, enter the number you got earlier from the "ifconfig en0" command. In my case, that's "192.168.2.1"
Move onto DNS. Enter the IP address of your wireless router (in my case, "192.168.0.1") in both the primary and secondary IP address fields
Leave PPPoE and Advanced settings blank (i.e. OFF and Automatic)
You should now be able to connect to Xbox Live via your Internet sharing Mac

After the internet connection, you can play videos on Xbox360, play video games, shop online etc. for more fun.

FYI:
BTW, if you have any trouble importing videos on Xbox, such as failure to play video in either AVI, MOV or M4V on Xbox, use Video Converter for Mac to convert format unaccepted to the compatible one with Xbox. To help you save time and get an efficient solution, you are highly recommended this one: iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac.

Posted From http://www.joystiq.com

J0e 2012-01-19 22:06
i ignored the first step and moved on to the "On Your Mac" step and it worked fine
Kwo 2011-12-29 03:21
Try the suggestions from lucylucy and Will.
Tony Trinh58 2011-12-29 00:49
I have the same problem as Lovahlove and it wont give me the inet and the ip address. What am I suppose to do?
gswarrior 2011-12-25 05:59
do you find the DNS in the terminal as well? and what is it labeled as?
facebook-1617495428 2011-12-23 15:12
The problem is i get moderate NAT and i can't join parties and use voice chat. Is there some kind of port-forwarding to do?
Will 2011-12-23 13:50
I had the same problem. To overcome this ensure that you have activated internet sharing prior to going into terminal. To do this, go System Preferences>Sharing and then select the internet sharing tab. You will then need to select where your sharing the connection from (i.e. your airport) and then where you will be sharing to (ethernet port). Now go into terminal and type "ifconfig en0" and you should be cooking on gas. Hope this helps.
kim 2011-12-10 19:08
Seems like everything is SUPPOSED to go smoothly when I do it but it never recognizes my Mac even though it says everything works fine. Weird.
mike 2011-12-10 03:29
Works like a charm. You solved in 5 minutes what xbox support couldn't solve in 2 1/2 hours.
Reuben 2011-12-09 23:39
when I go to connect, my network between my mac and the xbox is fine, but it still won't connect to the internet, it says that the DNS servers are unable to ..... something. help!
Lovahlove 2011-12-09 15:27
will do. Thanks!
lucylucy 2011-12-09 02:13
That's weird. Mine works fine. And to your case, I suggest you to ask Xbox 360 support team for help :)
Lovahlove 2011-12-09 00:48
ifconfig definitely brought up a bunch of stuff...but not the info i need. there is NOTHING that says inet then a bunch of numbers. what do i do now?
kaka 2011-12-08 01:15
Hi, try this: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live/connecting/wired
twitter-43295058 2011-12-07 08:03
I have an unrelated question but nobody has been able to help me till now. We got a brand new XBox 360 a few months ago and everytime we try connecting to our Wifi, and we 'Test' the connection it says we need a system update. And we go for the update, it says we need an internet connection to download the update. SO, we're stuck in a vicious cycle and we even tried connecting our XBox to the router with an Ethernet cable, still no progress. We have a super-fast 4Mbps connection (the fastest in my country, India) Please help?
Mike_Sha 2011-12-05 13:43
Thank u soooooooooo much !!
Confused Gamer 2011-11-27 00:26
P.S im using a eMac G4 is it too old??
A Confused Gamer 2011-11-27 00:20
What do i put as the gateway!? ive been trying forever but still dont get it plz someone help!!!
google-1e9b5f140f1f02519c6d02b 2011-11-25 20:15
Thank you :) I've been struggling for an hour trying to sort that up again after my live ran out in may :S
Rafaelrazevedo01 2011-11-22 22:23
Same thing i need to have My Mac as a TV or even some display to play with my X-Box 360
ADAM 2011-11-21 04:07
same
Benno_ 2011-11-16 08:34
same
Alex 2011-11-15 06:25
same here
Aaron9k 2011-11-12 14:24
ifconfig en0 didn't give me the information i needed....

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