ICS and XP and ADSL Router and Wireless and XBox !

[Jim]

Before anyone jumps down my throat - I know a ethernet bridge or xbox
wireless adapter is the answer - my bridge is out on long term loan and I
don't want to invest in another or a rip off Xbox adapter.

So: I have a ADSL router with a wireless network. Downstairs office - three
PCs connected by ethernet to the switch/Adsl router. All ok.

Upstairs I have one PC connected wirelessly to the downstairs ADSL router -
pretty standard stuff and all works well. However, next to this PC is an
Xbox and I used to connect it to the wireless network using a simple bridge.
Bridge is no longer there....so is there a way I can use ICS on the upstairs
PC - which will then route internet traffic from the LAN nic through the
wireless nic to the router??

regards
Jim

 

[Guest]

Before anyone jumps down my throat - I know a ethernet bridge or xbox
wireless adapter is the answer - my bridge is out on long term loan and I
don't want to invest in another or a rip off Xbox adapter.

So: I have a ADSL router with a wireless network. Downstairs office - three
PCs connected by ethernet to the switch/Adsl router. All ok.

Upstairs I have one PC connected wirelessly to the downstairs ADSL router -
pretty standard stuff and all works well. However, next to this PC is an
Xbox and I used to connect it to the wireless network using a simple bridge.
Bridge is no longer there....so is there a way I can use ICS on the upstairs
PC - which will then route internet traffic from the LAN nic through the
wireless nic to the router??

regards
Jim

Introduction to Xbox Live Connection Methods
http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/support/xbox360/live/connect/connecttolive-intro.htm
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/connecttolive/xbox360/homenetworking/wireless.htm
http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/support/xbox/connect/
If you need more help please post here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...501-144b-4e8e-baf9-03f78faf7e85&lang=en&cr=US
HTH.
nass

 

[Jim]

Thanks - but that doesn't address what I put in the post.

 

[Phillip Windell]

To me this is a big "maybe", but if you connect the XBox to the PC's Wired
nic with either a Crossover Cable or put a simple hub/switch between
them,...then on the Wireless Nic set it to be shared with ICS so that you
are sharing the Wireless connection. The physical Nics IP# will be forced
to become 192.168.0.1 (or was that 192.168.1.1?), and the XBox will
dynamically get an IP# from that same range,...you will have to make sure
that you do *not* use that IP Range on the rest of your LAN.

If the PC doesn't have a Wired nic you are screwed. Instead of buying a
wired nic for that you could just have bought a wireless one for the XBox
and been done with it.

I would just buy a wireless adapter for the XBox and forget it,...it isn't
worth jumping through all those hoops and maybe screwing up the LAN in the
process. ICS just plain stinks anyway and I don't consider it to be very
dependable.

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Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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