Last Ditch effort with bridge or Micrsoft wins

[bbulich]

Hello all

 

Well this site may be my only option left before going out and giving Microsoft another 100 bucks for a wireless adapter for my 360. I just moved into a new place and my only option for xbox live besides the adapter is my laptop receiving wireless internet. I have always been able to set up a bridge between the xbox and laptop to get on xbox live, however when I do so I lose my internet connection completely on my laptop. You guys may have heard this complaint a million times....if so I am sorry but I am running out of ideas...and using the search engine I have found really nothing that has helped me. If anyone has any ideas to what the problem might be please help me out...Also using internet sharing does the same thing but I have had more luck with the bridge.

 

Thanks in advance

[Tootech]

Have you thought about using one of these?

 

Huawei D100 White - 3G Mobile Broadband Wireless Router on eBay (end time 11-Sep-09 02:29:02 BST)

 

Plug your console in using the ethernet and connect your laptop wirelessly to the router.

[snow]

We recently had a very similar problem to this one:

http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/networking/7621-network-bridge-cuts-out-my-internet-connection.html

 

Please try the suggestions there, and let us know how you get on.

[samuria]

It could be you are swamping the laptop and its having to resend packets what speed does it connect at? The laptop would be better off with cable if you could.

You dont give a lot of info like what O/S what router etc.

 

The best way to do it is to set the laptop up with a static ip if you goto start/run type cmd press return and then type ipconfig /all when your connected you will get an ip address say you get

 

10.0.0.2 subnet 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.0.0.1

 

Put this in as a static ip on the laptop(if you roam wit hit you may have to revert it back when connecting to other networks)

 

On the xbox set the ip to one above the laptop so you add one to the last number in the above case the xbox would be 10.0.0.3 give it the same subnet and set the gateway to the ip of the laptop.

 

It should all work. You ip may be in the range 192 and on some routers there is a setting that stops 2 wireless station talking together