Guest Jim Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 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 nass Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 RE: ICS and XP and ADSL Router and Wireless and XBox ! "Jim" wrote: > 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/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless&cat=en_US_f7139501-144b-4e8e-baf9-03f78faf7e85&lang=en&cr=US HTH. nass ----- http://www.nasstec.co.uk
Guest Jim Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 Re: ICS and XP and ADSL Router and Wireless and XBox ! Thanks - but that doesn't address what I put in the post. "nass" <nass@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:84A95369-A9D7-4F19-A1B3-5983361A62BF@microsoft.com... > > > "Jim" wrote: > >> 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/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless&cat=en_US_f7139501-144b-4e8e-baf9-03f78faf7e85&lang=en&cr=US > HTH. > nass > ----- > http://www.nasstec.co.uk >
Guest Phillip Windell Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 Re: ICS and XP and ADSL Router and Wireless and XBox ! "Jim" <jim@nomail.com> wrote in message news:XLadnWBJjNqwaUrbRVnyiwA@pipex.net... >>> 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?? 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. -- Phillip Windell http://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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