Hey

I am experiencing a problem; I just purchased a new laptop with Vista Ultimate. I thought I would give streaming HD over my wireless network to my 360 a go. It worked but was dropping packets like crazy.

I thought the solution would be to run a LAN cable from my laptop to my wireless router!

So a few days had passed and I finally purchased a network cable. Plugged everything together and now I get the message on the Xbox 360 saying Connection Terminated! The PC finds the 360 and you can see it in the network devices but when the 360 try’s to connect to the pc it will just die and say connection terminated...... Then loops over and over again?

Tried back to wireless and that doesn’t work anymore!!

Now during the period on getting that network cable I did purchase Norton Antivirus 08.

So I thought it may have been firewall problems! So I shutdown Windows Firewall and Norton. And still no go???

Any Ideas?

 Thankyou in advance

Taken from Zolved.com

http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/27895/Xbox_360_Error_Message__Connection_Failed_when_trying_to_c

 

       This should now resolve the problem.

Thankyou for the information. i was really excited to see that and thought it would work..

However it didnt! oh i hate this so much. Im going to give up soon! :'(

 

anyone else got an idea?

i think there were a few other solutions through google, i would try it and see if you find any other ideas...

OMG Guys get this!

So I thought STUFF it.. im gonna grab out another 360.. SO i tryed that.. STill didnt work. like windows see's it but just never connects at the end of setting up an extender.

So im like OKAY its NOT the 360

SO i formated my fresh computer... Hours later

Back up and running with no protection.. AND NOPE. still didnt work!

Seriously..

Im gonna jump

What is the video driver that you are using on your laptop? 

A number of cases have popped up recently where the video driver installation did not install necessary components for an extender. 

Here is a link to a thread with instructions to do further diagnosis:

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/274587.aspx

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1: Dimension 9200 - Vista Ult, 2.4GHz Q6600 Core2Quad, 4GB RAM, 160GB, 750GB, 500GB USB, Nvidia 8300GS, PVR-150, HDTV Wonder, Vbox 3560, X360, DMA2100

2: HP m376n - MCE 2005, 2.6 P4 w/HT, 1GB RAM, 250GB, 400GB USB HD, Nvidia 6200, Emuzed MAUI, X360

It may actually be your network adapter driver too.  My 360 worked great until I updated my network adapter driver so I could use the HDHomerun tuner.  Now my Xbox drops a connection after about 15-20 min at the beginning of every session.  Once I restart (without turning off the xbox) it stays connect.  This was a direct result of the driver upgrade but a small price to pay so I can use the HDHomerun.

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I think it's a remote desktop setting in the registry, not allowing the extender to connect to your video card. Check this thread out: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/permalink/287163/287163/ShowThread.aspx#287163

Hi.

Just wondering if there was ever a solution found for this problem?

 

I get the same thing. Xbox sits on the "contacting..." screen then "Connection Terminated". Laptop recognises the xbox, and says "ready for use", but wont start Media Centre on the xbox.

Have had a look at the links posted above but i dont think thats my issue.

There are lots of different solutions becuase it has been caused by lots of different problems.  And there are a ton of threads on this subject as well as with the keywords "MCX" DMA2100", etc...

Most typically the problems are caused by firewalls (including those in cluded in other products such as Anti-virus and Net Nanny).  If your computer ever had a Symantec or Norton product on it, then download their removal utility which removes last vestiges.

There are other solutions already mentioned in this thread: NIC, gigabit switch, NIC options.

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1: Dimension 9200 - Vista Ult, 2.4GHz Q6600 Core2Quad, 4GB RAM, 160GB, 750GB, 500GB USB, Nvidia 8300GS, PVR-150, HDTV Wonder, Vbox 3560, X360, DMA2100

2: HP m376n - MCE 2005, 2.6 P4 w/HT, 1GB RAM, 250GB, 400GB USB HD, Nvidia 6200, Emuzed MAUI, X360