What Is a Router?
6.9 System Link: Xbox to Xbox direct (Last updated: 08/01/2002) Back to top What you need: • Two Xboxes • Two televisions • A System Link cable or any brand of ethernet crossover cable How to connect it: • Connect Xbox 1 to Xbox 2 with the cable • Insert a System Link game into each Xbox (the same game, preferably) • Play! See also: 6.10 System Link: Multiple Xboxes via hub 6.10 System Link: Multiple Xboxes via hub (Last updated: 08/01/2002) Back to top (Remember: hub=switch. Use either term as you want.) What you need: • Two or more Xboxes • As many TVs as you have Xboxes • A regular ethernet patch cable for each Xbox (not System Link/crossover cables!) • A hub (note: the switch that is included in most home routers will work fine for this. You can even just unplug it from your cable/DSL modem and use it as a standalone switch.) How to connect it: • Connect each Xbox to the hub using one of the ethernet patch cables • Insert a System Link game into each Xbox (the same game, preferably
A device that forwards, “routes”, data packets along networks. A router is connected to at least two networks, commonly two LANs (Local Area Networks) or WANs (Wide Area Networks) or a LAN and its ISP’s (Internet Service Provider) network. Routers are located at gateways, the places where two or more networks connect. Return to top.
Related Questions
- When I have a static route and RIP configured on a router, why is it that the static route with an administrative distance of 1 is preferred over RIP routes with an administrative distance of 120?
- When an active router tracks serial 0 and the serial line goes down, how does the standby router know to become active?
- Is it possible to run HSRP and OSPF together on the backbone router?
