I just purchased an Xbox 360 Elite yesterday along with a copy of GTA IV and so far it's freaking sweet.
My question though, is this:
I've been playing online on Xbox Live with my system in the living room, where it is close enough to reach my modem to hook up with an Ethernet cable. However, I'd like to be able to play in my room, which is too far for an Ethernet cable to reach. Since I just spent close to $600 on the system and the game, I can't exactly afford a wireless network adapter for Xbox yet, so I thought up of an idea that I have no clue if it'll work or not.
I have wireless internet at home, and I've also got a laptop with both an Ethernet connection port and a wireless card. Is there any possible way to configure my laptop to work like a modem, in which case I can connect the laptop to my wireless signal, and then hook up the laptop to my Xbox with the Ethernet cable. I don't know shit about computers so I have no idea if this is possible at all, but if any of you guys can help me out, that'd be sweet.
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Off hand I remember looking into the same thing. Check out xbox.com and they give details on numerous ways to get on wirelessly and such.
Edit:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/connectt...360/default.htm
go to connection methods
Edit:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/connectt...360/default.htm
go to connection methods
QUOTE (crookedlink @ Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, 11:48 AM) 
I just purchased an Xbox 360 Elite yesterday along with a copy of GTA IV and so far it's freaking sweet.
My question though, is this:
I've been playing online on Xbox Live with my system in the living room, where it is close enough to reach my modem to hook up with an Ethernet cable. However, I'd like to be able to play in my room, which is too far for an Ethernet cable to reach. Since I just spent close to $600 on the system and the game, I can't exactly afford a wireless network adapter for Xbox yet, so I thought up of an idea that I have no clue if it'll work or not.
I have wireless internet at home, and I've also got a laptop with both an Ethernet connection port and a wireless card. Is there any possible way to configure my laptop to work like a modem, in which case I can connect the laptop to my wireless signal, and then hook up the laptop to my Xbox with the Ethernet cable. I don't know shit about computers so I have no idea if this is possible at all, but if any of you guys can help me out, that'd be sweet.
My question though, is this:
I've been playing online on Xbox Live with my system in the living room, where it is close enough to reach my modem to hook up with an Ethernet cable. However, I'd like to be able to play in my room, which is too far for an Ethernet cable to reach. Since I just spent close to $600 on the system and the game, I can't exactly afford a wireless network adapter for Xbox yet, so I thought up of an idea that I have no clue if it'll work or not.
I have wireless internet at home, and I've also got a laptop with both an Ethernet connection port and a wireless card. Is there any possible way to configure my laptop to work like a modem, in which case I can connect the laptop to my wireless signal, and then hook up the laptop to my Xbox with the Ethernet cable. I don't know shit about computers so I have no idea if this is possible at all, but if any of you guys can help me out, that'd be sweet.
You say that you already have a wireless home network... if that's the case buy this:
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c...d=2661945678B01
$39 on ebay.
It's what I use with XBox Live and it was as simple as plugging the cat5 into the 360 and the power cord into the wall.
QUOTE (brvheart @ Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, 2:13 PM)
You say that you already have a wireless home network... if that's the case buy this:
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c...d=2661945678B01
$39 on ebay.
It's what I use with XBox Live and it was as simple as plugging the cat5 into the xbox and the power cord into the wall.
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c...d=2661945678B01
$39 on ebay.
It's what I use with XBox Live and it was as simple as plugging the cat5 into the xbox and the power cord into the wall.
That works for the 360 or just the original xbox?
QUOTE (SBriand @ Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, 1:23 PM)
That works for the 360 or just the original xbox?
I have a 360. I haven't tried it with the original xbox.
okay, i absolutely do NOT guarantee this will work... but this is what i would try if i really wanted to use the laptop. it could completely fail, obviously, because i have no reason to test it for truthfulness.
1. get a twisted pair ethernet cable. because you are going device-to-device, not through a router, you need this type of cable. this will be your only expense in this experiment.
2. connect the xbox to the laptop with the above cable.
3. download and install networkactiv autapf. this is freeware port-forwarding software.
4. the ethernet port is a 2nd network connection in your laptop. you will have to assign it an imaginary address. for example, if your wireless address is 192.168.0.24, set up the ethernet port as 192.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1
5. assign the xbox an address on your mini-lan. if your address is 192.168.1.1, give it something like 192.168.1.2 same subnet & gateway as above.
6. in the software from step 3, tell it to forward from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.24 the following ports: 5555, 7777, 3776, 1900, 3390.
7. in the software from step 3, tell it to forward almost all ports from 192.168.0.24 to 192.168.1.1. (1000-65535 or something, 3390 and 3932 are two definite ports, but two other processes use random ports, so i can't say how wide/narrow the range has to be to sweep all communications through to the xbox.)
8. cross your fingers. i should probably re-install the port-forwarding and re-learn the exact setup you'd need, but i'm lazy. but i used it funnel a ssh tunnel from a no-internet lan though a computer with two ethernet cards out onto the interweb so i could access the no-access lan from home.
1. get a twisted pair ethernet cable. because you are going device-to-device, not through a router, you need this type of cable. this will be your only expense in this experiment.
2. connect the xbox to the laptop with the above cable.
3. download and install networkactiv autapf. this is freeware port-forwarding software.
4. the ethernet port is a 2nd network connection in your laptop. you will have to assign it an imaginary address. for example, if your wireless address is 192.168.0.24, set up the ethernet port as 192.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1
5. assign the xbox an address on your mini-lan. if your address is 192.168.1.1, give it something like 192.168.1.2 same subnet & gateway as above.
6. in the software from step 3, tell it to forward from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.24 the following ports: 5555, 7777, 3776, 1900, 3390.
7. in the software from step 3, tell it to forward almost all ports from 192.168.0.24 to 192.168.1.1. (1000-65535 or something, 3390 and 3932 are two definite ports, but two other processes use random ports, so i can't say how wide/narrow the range has to be to sweep all communications through to the xbox.)
8. cross your fingers. i should probably re-install the port-forwarding and re-learn the exact setup you'd need, but i'm lazy. but i used it funnel a ssh tunnel from a no-internet lan though a computer with two ethernet cards out onto the interweb so i could access the no-access lan from home.
QUOTE (qyayqi @ Thursday, May 8th, 2008, 6:10 AM)
okay, i absolutely do NOT guarantee this will work... but this is what i would try if i really wanted to use the laptop. it could completely fail, obviously, because i have no reason to test it for truthfulness.
1. get a twisted pair ethernet cable. because you are going device-to-device, not through a router, you need this type of cable. this will be your only expense in this experiment.
2. connect the xbox to the laptop with the above cable.
3. download and install networkactiv autapf. this is freeware port-forwarding software.
4. the ethernet port is a 2nd network connection in your laptop. you will have to assign it an imaginary address. for example, if your wireless address is 192.168.0.24, set up the ethernet port as 192.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1
5. assign the xbox an address on your mini-lan. if your address is 192.168.1.1, give it something like 192.168.1.2 same subnet & gateway as above.
6. in the software from step 3, tell it to forward from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.24 the following ports: 5555, 7777, 3776, 1900, 3390.
7. in the software from step 3, tell it to forward almost all ports from 192.168.0.24 to 192.168.1.1. (1000-65535 or something, 3390 and 3932 are two definite ports, but two other processes use random ports, so i can't say how wide/narrow the range has to be to sweep all communications through to the xbox.)
8. cross your fingers. i should probably re-install the port-forwarding and re-learn the exact setup you'd need, but i'm lazy. but i used it funnel a ssh tunnel from a no-internet lan though a computer with two ethernet cards out onto the interweb so i could access the no-access lan from home.
1. get a twisted pair ethernet cable. because you are going device-to-device, not through a router, you need this type of cable. this will be your only expense in this experiment.
2. connect the xbox to the laptop with the above cable.
3. download and install networkactiv autapf. this is freeware port-forwarding software.
4. the ethernet port is a 2nd network connection in your laptop. you will have to assign it an imaginary address. for example, if your wireless address is 192.168.0.24, set up the ethernet port as 192.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1
5. assign the xbox an address on your mini-lan. if your address is 192.168.1.1, give it something like 192.168.1.2 same subnet & gateway as above.
6. in the software from step 3, tell it to forward from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.24 the following ports: 5555, 7777, 3776, 1900, 3390.
7. in the software from step 3, tell it to forward almost all ports from 192.168.0.24 to 192.168.1.1. (1000-65535 or something, 3390 and 3932 are two definite ports, but two other processes use random ports, so i can't say how wide/narrow the range has to be to sweep all communications through to the xbox.)
8. cross your fingers. i should probably re-install the port-forwarding and re-learn the exact setup you'd need, but i'm lazy. but i used it funnel a ssh tunnel from a no-internet lan though a computer with two ethernet cards out onto the interweb so i could access the no-access lan from home.
I appreciate the help but I actually got it working using the video that I posted earlier. It kept failing the DNS test for some reason so I just manually set the DNS number on the Xbox network settings and it's now working like a charm.
I'd heard that the fact that I was using my laptop was going to cut my bandwidth in half and make online gaming unplayable because of lag, but so far it's been perfect.
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