XBOX 360 E User Guide

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PERSONAL SETTINGS: A player’s preferred settings on a particular game, console, or network setup.
PLAYLIST : A list of songs with a particular theme.
PREFERRED PLAYER : The opposite of “avoid player.” On Xbox Live, allows you to prefer particular players to play
with. It is a part of the Xbox Live feedback system.
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RECREATION ZONE : A Gamer Zone dedicated to gamers who just want to relax and play. Winning is not the main
objective here, fun is. 
REPUTATION : Positive or negative feedback generated...

XBOX GUIDE: A HUD interface that grants players access to their personal settings, gamer card, music, and Xbox Live.
XBOX GUIDE BUTTON : Large dome-shaped button on Xbox 360 controllers. It activates the Xbox Guide.
XBOX LIVE : The original Xbox and Xbox 360’s online component.
XNA ™
: A set of Microsoft tools that allows its users to create new and original content for Microsoft Windows
and Xbox 360.
XBOX.COM’S GLOSSARY OF XBOX LIVE®TERMS
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Traditionally, this work has been done by a piece of hardware called a bridge. Currently, many routers do this
work instead, and bridges aren’t needed. You might still hear talk of bridges from some salespeople. Windows XP
and Windows XP Service Pack 2 both have network bridging capabilities built in.
BROADBAND:
a. High-speed Internet service.
b. Non-data cable TV services (for example, AT&T Broadband).
A data connection of greater than 56 kilobytes per second (kps). The most common broadband...

DSL: Digital Subscriber Line. A broad class of technologies that allow broadband Internet access at much higher
speeds than dial-up. Most DSL used by consumers is ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), so you will
often see that term used instead of DSL.
DYNAMIC IP ADDRESS : IP address that is assigned on demand every time a user accesses the Internet.
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ETHERNET: A popular network technology that transmits information between computers at speeds of 10–100
million bits per second (mbps).
ETHERNET IN...

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HIGH-SPEED: See broadband.
HOME NETWORK : A local area network (LAN) at home consisting of two or more devices connected through a router.
HOST NAME : A human-readable name assigned to a
computer or device. In some cases, networking software
will display these names to users so that they can access
resources on remote computers.
HUB : A common connection point that provides multiple
Ethernet ports for devices in a network. For example, an Ethernet hub that has four ports will allow you to connect
four...

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LAN: Local Area Network. A computer network connecting devices that are geographically close together (for
example, in the same building). A network you set up in your house to connect your PC in the den and your Xbox
console in the living room is a LAN.
LATENCY : Latency is the time a computer spends waiting before a download (or other data request) starts. It’s
slightly different from bandwidth. Bandwidth is the time required to move the data. If you have a low-latency or
“low ping” connection, your...

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PCI CARD: Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) and Universal Serial Bus (USB) connections are two ways to
plug equipment into your computer.
PCI MODEM, INTERNAL PCI MODEM : An expansion card
that provides analog (dial-up) modem, cable modem,
or DSL modem functionality.
PCI SLOT : Slot on the main board inside the computer
specifically for PCI cards.
PORT : The jack or connection point for a cable.
PPP : Point-to-Point Protocol. The protocol used for
transmitting data between your computer and the...

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SERVER: A computer or device on a network that manages network resources. For example, you connect to Xbox
Live servers when you sign in to Xbox Live.
SSID : An SSID is the name of a wireless local area network (WLAN). All wireless devices on a WLAN must employ
the same SSID in order to communicate with each other.
STANDARD CABLE : Also known as a straight-through cable. An Ethernet cable that has an identical sequence of
colored wires on each end. Also see crossover cable.
SUBNET MASK : A 32-bit...

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WAN: Wide Area Network. A network that covers a large area by interconnecting multiple LANs.
WEP : Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the old standard for security and data protection on a wireless network.
The current standard is WPA, which is much stronger but is not yet supported on all devices.
Windows Media Center : Windows Media Center offers the ultimate integration of gaming and room-to-room
entertainment—including watching or recording TV shows, viewing your digital photos, and listening to...

Disc Tray Button

Y Button
B Button

A Button

Guide Button

Power On/OffButton

DVD/HD-DVD controls

(Functions will depend
on DVD or HD-DVDcompatibility)

Media Center Button

Numerical Pad

Directional Arrows

(Correspond to D-pad
and left stick controls)

TV Controls

Record Button

X Button

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