X-Cup XI F200 1980 Fiat 131 Abarth

[Duque721]

Sign me up. Car is built and tested and half way painted. Fun little car to drive.

[Bayless 39]

Excellent!!!

[Bakkster]

I'll be there tonight, and should be racing the full series again. I'm liking the car, just a bit more setup to do.

[Vtwin 757]

I didn't see any invites or messages to practice tonight the few minutes I was able to get online.

Since yesterday afternoon, I've been loosing internet connections at the xbox and pc. Not sure what the problem is. Don't know if my xbox, router or modem is getting ready to crap out. If I knew more about how to set up a network, I could probably figure it out. Figures, We finally get an X-Cup going and I can't get online.

[AAR Gashi]

Sorry I didn't make it tonight, I had a long weekend of visiting family.

[Bayless 39]

I didn't see any invites or messages to practice tonight the few minutes I was able to get online.

Since yesterday afternoon, I've been loosing internet connections at the xbox and pc. Not sure what the problem is. Don't know if my xbox, router or modem is getting ready to crap out. If I knew more about how to set up a network, I could probably figure it out. Figures, We finally get an X-Cup going and I can't get online.

I wondered what was going on Chris. I saw your name pop up a couple of times while we were in a race and when the race was over I would go to invite you and you were offline. Hopefully you have it figured out before next weekend.

[Bayless 39]

Sorry I didn't make it tonight, I had a long weekend of visiting family.

It's all good Gashi. We'll look for you next weekend for quals.

Tune and test was fun and proved to be some close racing especially on the shorter tracks where the difference between the fast and not so fast was not as prominent. Should be an exciting series.

[sylvacore]

I didn't see any invites or messages to practice tonight the few minutes I was able to get online.

Since yesterday afternoon, I've been loosing internet connections at the xbox and pc. Not sure what the problem is. Don't know if my xbox, router or modem is getting ready to crap out. If I knew more about how to set up a network, I could probably figure it out. Figures, We finally get an X-Cup going and I can't get online.

Watch the "sync" light (could be called something else) on the modem when the internet goes out. Usually it'll blink when it's trying to sync up, and be solid when it's online. If it starts blinking when you lose the internet, it's an ISP thing, either the line coming to the house or the modem. If you're not sure which one it is, unplug the incoming cable and I'm sure you'll find out ... heh.

If that doesn't happen, watch the lights on the router. There should be an "internet" light (or WAN maybe). That light should be solid unless there's activity. If that light is blinking, and nobody is using the internet (xbox off, all computers off) then the problem is related to the cable between the modem and router. Either a bad cable, or a bad port on either end of it. If your modem has more than one port, try another one on the modem, or a new cable if you happen to have one.

Outside of that (you said both go out) it could be the router, either the WAN port or the router itself. Depending on the setup for the modem, you could plug the PC and/or XBox directly into the modem. DSL usually requires pppoe to be set up, so if you have to enter a username/password into the router to maintain the connection, the best bet would be to plug your PC into it. I know Vista and Windows 7 can do pppoe without extra software, so hopefully you don't have pppoe, or you have one of those OS's.

I can't remember if I gave you my phone number before, but you're welcome to call me sometime too. Since we've moved, our home phone quit working (go figure), but shoot me a PM and I'll give you my cell if you don't have it and want to call.

[Vtwin 757]

Seems like it's the xbox causing it. When xbox isn't on, PC sems to never have connection issues. Once I turn xbox on and sign onto live, it doesn't last long and I loose xbox live and the pc has a limited connection. Is it possible for something to have happened to my xbox internally? I've noticed when I do get logged on, it takes longer to connect and when I look at my friends list, none of my friends avatar or other things show up on the screen. Maybe I need to chnage my IP address on the xbox? When I run the "Test Connection" test, it says that "Live" was unable to locate an IP address.

Don't know...

I'm on my 2nd xbox. First one crapped out, sent it off to be fixed and I got back a refurbished unit. I was thinking of simply going out and buying a new one. I don't care about having the latest, greatest xbox, was thinking of just buying a plane jane xbox with no hard drive since I already have the 20 gb harddrive. I don't need the 120 gb unit, I'll neve fill it up. What are your thoughts, Jason?

[Bayless 39]

I did that just about a month ago, Chris. I took the harddrive off of my old box took it to Gamestop traded it in and bought the Arcade version. My old box was starting to act up so I decided to make the move. If I remember correctly the trade value is $80 if they deem it to be all in working order and $30 if they have to send it off for repair/cleaning. The cost of an Arcade unit is $199

[Vtwin 757]

Cool. Thanks for the input, Jeff! I really feel like it's internal of the xbox. It takes longer to sign on, when it signs on it sometimes freezes, data and avatars on my friends list don't show up and then shortly after, I get disconnected from xbox live. Then it will not sign back on and the error is that my connection can not locate an IP address for the xbox. While all this is happening is when my pc's connection goes to limited access.

[Duque721]

I fell asleep at about 8 or so last night(long weekend). I'll be ready for qualifying though. Here's a little Fiat love from me and my bro running online. The blue one is mine.

[Vtwin 757]

I didn't see any invites or messages to practice tonight the few minutes I was able to get online.

Since yesterday afternoon, I've been loosing internet connections at the xbox and pc. Not sure what the problem is. Don't know if my xbox, router or modem is getting ready to crap out. If I knew more about how to set up a network, I could probably figure it out. Figures, We finally get an X-Cup going and I can't get online.

Watch the "sync" light (could be called something else) on the modem when the internet goes out. Usually it'll blink when it's trying to sync up, and be solid when it's online. If it starts blinking when you lose the internet, it's an ISP thing, either the line coming to the house or the modem. If you're not sure which one it is, unplug the incoming cable and I'm sure you'll find out ... heh.

If that doesn't happen, watch the lights on the router. There should be an "internet" light (or WAN maybe). That light should be solid unless there's activity. If that light is blinking, and nobody is using the internet (xbox off, all computers off) then the problem is related to the cable between the modem and router. Either a bad cable, or a bad port on either end of it. If your modem has more than one port, try another one on the modem, or a new cable if you happen to have one.

Outside of that (you said both go out) it could be the router, either the WAN port or the router itself. Depending on the setup for the modem, you could plug the PC and/or XBox directly into the modem. DSL usually requires pppoe to be set up, so if you have to enter a username/password into the router to maintain the connection, the best bet would be to plug your PC into it. I know Vista and Windows 7 can do pppoe without extra software, so hopefully you don't have pppoe, or you have one of those OS's.

I can't remember if I gave you my phone number before, but you're welcome to call me sometime too. Since we've moved, our home phone quit working (go figure), but shoot me a PM and I'll give you my cell if you don't have it and want to call.

Lookin like it's my router. Had my internet provider do a signal check and my signal is good all the way to my modem. When I run a speed check using (test.lvcm.com) I come up with 9.5 mbps DL speed without router. With router, I don't even get half that. I get a reading of around 4.0-4.2 mbps DL speed. Tried another cable from modem to router but got same result.

My pc works fine running with or without the router but the xbox will not work running through the router. I ran my connection straight from my modem to my xbox last night and my connection was fine.

I checked to see if there is a firmware upgrade for my Linksys router and there is. Wondering if thats all I need?

I will get Linksys to help this evening, hopefully? If not. I guess I will see about getting a new router. I do have a Linksys router with built in modem that my wife used to use. I tried to use it the other night but had no clue as to how to get it to run my network...ugh. Mayber Linksys will be able to help with that too?

[flight602]

sign me up bayless, it's about time i got to race with you guys again

[Bayless 39]

Awesome, glad to hear you will be joining us flight!!