<p>My roommate and I just moved in, and we've been wondering about hooking up our XBox 360 to XBox live. The first question is whether or not we're even allowed to use the service (not worth loosing our internet). The follow up to that would be, assuming we can, how exactly do we do it? I feel like the problem probably has to do with the way you register a machine, since that's usually done by opening a page in a web browser, which the 360 doesn't have. Any help?</p>
<p>Ah, this is something I can answer from my exactly identical experience last year haha. Don’t worry about the whole ******** ‘revoking of service’ threat for connecting anything other than a laptop to the NYU intranet. I don’t even think that’s something the university has an official policy on, I think it was more urban legend than anything.</p>
<p>It’s like the whole ‘you can’t have your own wireless in our dorms’ thing. Everyone is so cowed and afraid during their first semester at college in Manhattan that they’ll believe anything; return from winter break and it’ll be markedly different. Last year when I did literally 15 wifi networks popped up the first week in January, it was so funny. I brought back my own router, set up my own network in the room, and connected my xbox through that with an ethernet cable. My room was the spot, haha.</p>
<p>So in short, bring your own wireless equipment back, enjoy wifi in your room, use it to connect your xbox, and don’t worry so much. Once I got out of my freshman dorm I figured I’d have to do the whole network thing all over again in my new room, but here it just happened that I could plug-and-play straight from the jack on the wall. And, coincidentally, they put the NYU networks in our dorm too. Wireless and XBL, it’s golden. If only I had the time to play. =)</p>