Connecting XBox360 to PC

I have had much trouble in connecting my xbox to my computer, first thing I tried was to use the xbox wireless adapter to set up a network... This worked to some extent, the program Vuse actually detected the xbox and I was able to watch videos from my computer wirelessly. However, this was not my main intent in connecting my xbox to my pc. Doing this, I was not able to transfer music or pictures, only video.

I then bought an ethernet cable, thinking that I would be able to connect using that... I plugged it in and lo and behold my computer detected a connection. However, I could not see my xbox from my pc, nor my pc from my xbox. So, I did a little more research on the net, it turns out I need a crossover cable.

A crossover cable is different from an ethernet cable, they look the same but they do different things.

An ethernet cable connects a device to a router which then connects it via another ethernet cable to another device. Both ends of an ethernet cable have the same wire setup.

A crossover cable connects a device to another device directly with no need for a router, the wires at the ends of a crossover cable are arranged to cross over the signal so that each device can send and recieve on different channels/wires rather than trying to talk on the same channel.

So, it turns out that the only way to successfully connect my xbox to my computer is to either buy a router and another ethernet cable (which seems pointless as I only have two devices), or I could buy a crossover cable.

I had the idea to get a program that emulates the crossover with an ethernet cable, however, so did a lot of different people on various forums I looked at, there seems to be no program out there that can do this.

I was really hoping xbox360 to pc connections would be easier than this. I have spent almost a year trying to do it, unsuccessfully so far. I would like the wireless network to simply pick up the xbox and know what to do...

I'll update this post in a few days after I get the cable and see what happens...