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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Silverbane" data-source="post: 3631703" data-attributes="member: 38016">So...  I spent most of the day canvasing the neighborhood where I think the thieves might live.  That experience was not only pretty disheartening (I did not find out crap, most people would not even answer their doors) but it also painted a pretty dismal picture of the area where I live (almost everyone who did answer their door also had a story about their place being broken into, or their neighbors place being broken into, or their car broken into or stolen).On the plus side, I've found (I think) the MAC address of my 360 in the event log of my Vista machine (which was not stolen).See, when I had both my Vista machine and my 360 on and connected to the LAN at the same time, the Vista machine automatically detected it and asked me if I wanted to set up the 360 as a Media Extender to Windows Media Center.  Since it was the middle of the night, and I had nothing better to do, I thought, "Why not?"  And continued through the setup on both the computer and the 360.  This, apparently, allows me to download movies, pictures, whatever, onto my computer, and then view them on my TV, via the 360 and network connection.  That's not terribly useful to me, but, like I said, I had nothing better to do.As it turns out, this was a good thing, because I believe that the police, in cooperation with the local ISP companies, can find out from where my XBox has been logging on to XBox live.  That is, they can tell if a computer (or other device) with a specific MAC address (which I have, and should be unique to that device) is connected to the internet through their system, and then locate the actual, physical location (house) of the computer (or, in this case, XBox 360).  At least, that's the theory...Latersilver</blockquote>

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