I have been thinking of trying to get a weekly post up of what I am playing and maybe put it out to see what you guys are playing as well. I have seen a lot of sites do this to get a good discussion going and maybe get some ideas about a game I wouldn’t normally pick up. So, seeing as how I am the only one here, I’ll go first.
The past week or two I have been working on some house type stuff and reconfiguring things on my network. After picking up the new Xbox 360S (I traded in my old 20gb Xbox) I decided to upgrade my router to a Wireless N to use the new Xbox’s N device. I bought the Belkin Play Dual Band Wireless N router and replaced my crappy Netgear G. Long story made short, I can’t stream media from my PC to the xbox anymore and have no idea why. While I am not a hard core network guy, I still know my way around a subnet and have spent the past 2 weeks tweaking and such to figure this out. It’s kind of a pain.
Outside of that I have been playing some Lego Harry Potter with Sarah. It’s one of those games where we pretty much only play together. I believe we are towards the end of Book 3 right now. the Quick review on it, it’s a Lego game. Same basic premise and humor. That’s not a bad thing, because I love the Lego games. Aside from that I have picked up Risk: Factions from the Xbox Live Arcade. They found a way to really make a Risk game fun for everyone! We have played as a family, as well as through the solo campaign. Enjoyable all around. May have more of a full review on it up soon.
In the life department, I also picked up an Elliptical machine and am using it to get back into some sort of shape that’s not “round”. My hope is to turn some of this belly fat into muscle in time for DragonCon at the beginning of September. We’ll See, as of this morning I was at 192lb. My target is Around 175lb but I would be happy with a strong 180-185lbs. The goal is not so much loss but re-distribution. Wish me luck!
Mostly Remote Masseuse.
Seriously though, DragonQuest IX is the only flavor-of-the-moment game I’m playing. Finished “Flower” last night and also am doing a second play-through of The World Ends with You, and Crash Bandicoot for PSOne via the PSN re-release. Also getting together with friends once a week for a night of Left 4 Dead 2 or whatever.
Oh and try these ideas:
1) making sure UPnP is enabled on the new router.
2) the streaming back-end may have had access controls to limit which hosts could stream from it.
2a) if you were using a static IP with the old Xbox, assign the same one to the new Xbox.
2b) if it was a MAC-address based access control scheme, add the new Xbox’s MAC address to the access control list of the back-end media server software.
3) If you had a combination DHCP/static-IP network like I do, then you might have an IP address collision unless you set up the new router the same way (defined range for DHCP addresses)
LOTRO, Star Craft II… 3 days to vacation (love that game!)
I really admire those that can go back and play older console games to revisit them. Any time I try that I usually get frustrated and want something new, could be the ADD.
And Mike, I have actually tried every bit of that a few times over. I am having Brian H. come over to help troubleshoot. Fun times! It could just be how that router handles Media streaming….which would suck.
if all else fails, replace it with http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=530
LOVE mine.
That would be messed up, if your router was dropping and/or interfering with the UPnP AV protocol (used for media sharing on the Xbox 360). There are other UPnP AV clients which you can run (on a laptop or iPhone or what have you) to test whether this is the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPnP_AV_media_server
Maybe it is dropping the multicast/broadcast packets used for autodiscovery, or maybe it did something funny like create a separate subnet for the wired and wireless interfaces of the router.
Apple now has Rhapsody as an app, which is a great start, but it is currently hampered by the inability to store locally on your iPod, and has a dismal 64kbps bit rate. If this changes, then it will somewhat negate this advantage for the Zune, but the 10 songs per month will still be a big plus in Zune Pass’ favor.