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Alright, here is the situation. I have an XBOX 360 and in the room where it is primarily used there is a PC with a wireless connection to the internet. The wireless router is too far away from the 360 to have a wired connection to the router, and I don't want to spend the 100 dollars for the wireless adapter (quite yet). I have seen people do this before, otherwise I would not even ask about it.

Anyways, does anyone know how to set it up on a PC or laptop running windows XP to recieve a signal through a wireless card and share the internet connection with the XBOX connected to the ethernet card? The only problem I am having, really, is the network is trying to assign the same network address to the XBOX and the PC it is connecting through, so the XBOX doesn't connect.

Anyone have any idea how to resolve this?
 
I dont get it man. How far away from the machine is it that ya cant have a wired connection? a 10 metre cable will do any room just get one of them and solve all your headaches that way.
 
From the corner of one room downstairs to the other end of the house (where the stairwell is), upstairs and around the corner. At least 100 ft, if not more. And we don't want to drill, either.

Anyways, does anyone know what settings I need to change? A friend suggessted disabling DHCP and manually entering everything in, but now that I have a valid IP address, I don't have a vaild gateway address. Now what do I do?
 
The only problem I am having, really, is the network is trying to assign the same network address to the XBOX and the PC it is connecting through, so the XBOX doesn't connect.
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I don't know much about computers being used as a throughway, but the Xbox probably should not get any address from the router. Shouldn't even see it.
but now that I have a valid IP address, I don't have a vaild gateway address.
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Using Network Connections? The gateway is the IP of the router relative to the computer, which the router defines, usually. You can probably fix the gateway address, too, to be 192.168.1.1
 
Back in the day, we used GameSpy to setup our XBoxes to route/host without using the actual Live software and it worked nicely. Have you peeked at that?
 
I really haven't used XP Internet Connection Sharing, but it sounds like your main issue is that the router is only seeing the MAC address of the PC, so to it (and the Internet at large) both devices appear to be the same device.

If I had to guess, ICS isn't set up quite right on the XP machine. You might need to go into the Network Bridge settings and tinker around with them. Ideally, the XP machine would be the one assigning a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) address to the XBox, probably in the range of 192.168.0.x. If the XBox is communicating with the router at all, something's not kosher there.

Google "XP Internet Connection Sharing" ... there should be a plethora of tutorials and FAQs out there. I really think that's the area where your problem lies.
 
Dillie-O said:
Back in the day, we used GameSpy to setup our XBoxes to route/host without using the actual Live software and it worked nicely. Have you peeked at that?
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No. Didn't even know it existed. Is this just for playing on a LAN or over the internet?

And thank you DJP. I will google that and see if I find anything. I ended up buying a wireless adapter for the 360, but it really doesn't pick up a strong enough signal. So I have a new question:

Someone I know said that a USB wireless device (like for a laptop) would work with the 360. In this case, I might get a wireless-N USB device, which would work nicely. Does anyone know if this is true or not? It might be possible if the driver is on the device, or if the XBOX can recognize the device. Anyways, anyone know?
 
Should be the Internet. I don't know how often its used, but GameSpy was a free version of Xbox Live for doing group gaming.
 
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