Try this guide for crossover cable
DM Communications Setup
1. Connecting the DM to your LAN
Depending on how you are going to connect to your DM, you will need either a Crossover or straight Ethernet cable.
* if you are connecting straight to the DM from your PC, you will need a crossover Ethernet cable
* if you are connected to the DM through a router to your PC, you will need a straight Ethernet cable
2 Communication setup on your DM
The next step is to ensure your DM is correctly setup to use the connection to your router or PC.
On your DM select ‘Setup’ on your remote control then go to
Then go to ‘Expert Setup’
Then ‘Communications setup’
You should then be greeted with the screen below
Uncheck the DHCP tick-box to enable changes to the IP address.
IP Assign your DM an IP address, Usually Lan address’ start 192.168.x.x
So assign an address that no other PC or xbox is using on your network. eg 192.168.1.100
Netmask This is generally set at 255.255.255.0
Type Default setting for Local Area Network (LAN)
Nameserver & Gateway If you are using a router to connect to the internet, enter its IP address in both of these boxes. If you are not using a routerand the ‘Type’ is set to LAN,then normally these boxes can be disregarded.
Once completed reboot your DM
selecting ‘MENU’, ‘REBOOT’ then ‘REBOOT NOW’
You should now be able to communicate with your box. We will now look at setting up DCC which will allow us to FTP and Telnet into the DM.
thanks to Robxxx7 :thum: