Patch Cable?

[EricCamper]

Grrrrrrrrrr......I hate to be a little snippy sometimes....But I need to vent. ;-)

Trust me...I have read the Stickys A LOT.....hehe....

I have 3 xboxes hooked up to my network and they all work great. I am trying to hook ONE box to my laptop via a crossover cable to a laptop or another computer at work......Everything works great using the router option, but I need to set it up using the crossover cable and NO ROUTER. I think my cable must be bad...because it should be as simple as using the same settings and just using the crossover...But I can not connect....Weird.....
I backed up Fable and Guilty Gear today...via router....no dice with crossover

hehe....Sorry man....I hate it also when people ask questions that could be easliy obtained by searching......But this is not covered anywhere...I think..

Later all