Continue: Some important terms when you connect to Xbox 360 Live

8. MAC Spoofing:
If you are using a cable connection (specially with NTL or Telewest) with a modem, the ISP might have the connection linked to one device mostly would be your PC, So if you want to connect your console to the modem in that case MAC spoofing must be done which means to deceive the modem to think that the Xbox 360 is the PC by changing the MAC address of the Xbox 360 & putting the physical address of the PC instead, And that’s done as follows:
- On the PC click start
- Then Run & type there “cmd”
- You will get a black screen appeared so type there “ipconfig /all”
- You will get some information about your connection appeared on the screen, among these information you’ll find all the connection information including: Physical address, IP address, Gateway, DNS addresses.
- Write the Physical address on a piece of paper. - Go on the dashboard of the Xbox360 to:
System – Network settings – Edit settings – Additional settings – Alternate MAC address, & put the physical address of the PC here without any dashes in between.

9. Modem:
A modem is a device that enables a computer to transmit data over telephone or cable lines. Computer information is stored digitally, whereas information transmitted over telephone lines is transmitted in the form of analog waves, A modem converts between these two forms.
Some modems has only Ethernet port on it, some others has only USB & some ones has USB port along with the Ethernet port & you can’t use both ports of the modem at the same time, So you can only connect one device to the modem on a time.

10. Router:
It’s a device that contains integrated software that can spread the connection among more than one device, old routers had one port so you’d connect the router to a switch to be connected to all devices but now routers have more than one port so you’d be able to directly connect all your devices to the router, as if it’s a combination between a one port router & a switch.

11. Switch:
A switch connects devices to form a Local area network (LAN) so if more than one device are connected to a switch the connection will be spread on all devices connected to the switch & they all got connected at the same time through the same connection & that’s the main target of using that piece of equipment.

12. Firmware:
It is a software that is embedded in a hardware device like a router for instance.