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...to use or access? My brother just moved into his college dorm and his roommate has a one year old xbox 360. They tryed to hook it up to the college's network to play xbox live and it did not work. someone, probably from the college's it staff, told them that the xbox's mac address was too old to work with their system. Is this possible? What can they do to make it work? HELP!
Would it help to run through a hub before the xbox?

Although I don't know how to fix this, I would suggest your college's network isn't allowing you to connect to it.

It is impossible for a mac address to be "too old."

No. I've used 10+yr old Mac's on wired networks before without a problem. Your problem is that the network is most likely running as a VPN that requires an authenticated login.

The solution to this problem would be to setup a router inside the dorm room that will bridge an open network in his room with the VPN that the school probably uses.