Guide to.....Connecting Through Internet Connection Sharing

Stellios · 30 Jan 2007 at 19:47

Due to this popping up a lot ive created a basic guide on how to connect your 360 through ICS, hope its of use to someone. If ive made any errors or missed something, please feel free to inform me and ill update the post.

1) Connect your internet through your PC as normal

2) Using your RJ45 Ethernet cable (also known as a network cable, and is supplied with premium 360s) connect your 360 to your PC. This requires a space port on your PC. If you don’t have a spare port you need a Network Interface Card (NIC), which can be bought for just over £5.

3) Cables all connected properly? Good

4) Go to your Control Panel, which is located in your start menu

5) Select Network Connections

6) This window should show at least 2 connections. One will be labelled LAN, this will be your connection to your 360.

7) Your internet connection may show as one of 2 things. If you are using a wireless connection, then it will just show up under a wireless network
connection (as shown above). If it’s not wireless, then it should show up as a high speed internet connection.

8) Right click the connection and select Properties. You should now have a properties window open

9) Go to your advanced tab and you will have a section labelled Internet Connection Sharing.

10) You will have two boxes labalelled ‘Allow other computers to connect through this computers internet connection’ and the other laballed ‘Allow other users to control or disable the shared internet connection’. Both of these boxes need to be checked.

11) Select OK, your PC may hang, let it hang, it will sort itself out.

12) Your internet connection should now be shown as shared, and a little hand underneath the connection to indicate this

13) Turn on your 360

14) Live should connect. If it fails then run a connection test on your 360 and see where it fails.

TriedandTested · 30 Jan 2007 at 22:59

Nice guide. 5*. Will probably prove useful to a few people round here.

gord · 30 Jan 2007 at 23:05

I dont think that works straight off the bat.. let me think a second. Add this into your post:

Wireless connection on PC: Assigned by DHCP but IP must be in format
192.168.1.#
subnet 255.255.255.0 [same for everything]
The gateway will be something like 192.168.1.254
ICS shares this connection with Lan adapter.

LAN adapter
IP: 192.168.0.1
Subnet: same
no need for a gateway

Xbox 360
IP: 192.168.0.2
Subnet: Same
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS 192.168.1.1
Secondary DNS 192.168.1.254

I think i wrote that out because a lot of people have their router using the regular IP type, which then causes a conflict when you set it up with the PC which also tries to use 192.168.0.1 for ICS.

Steve09 · 30 Jan 2007 at 23:10

Cheers Stellios.

This is how I will be doing it, but I need to get another NIC 1st, only have one atm and my Wireless connection can not be shared.

Thanks

Johnz0r · 31 Jan 2007 at 00:16

Nice guide mate

Andr3w · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:46

Johnz0r said:
Nice guide mate

surfsquid · 31 Jan 2007 at 13:40

very good guide, but isn't the cable that comes with the 360 a straight through, whereas you need a crossover cable to connect a 360 to a pc? :confused:

could very well be wrong mind

JaFFa · 31 Jan 2007 at 14:06

you dont need to check the box that lets the other computer control the internet connection. Ive never used it and it works fine.

Andy298 · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:28

Haha I take it my post pestering Stellios had something to do with this?

Edit: Oh and that did work by the way. Talked my brother through it last night and he's now connected. He just needs to buy some Gold membership now! :rolleyes:

Andy298 · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:47

surfsquid said:
very good guide, but isn't the cable that comes with the 360 a straight through, whereas you need a crossover cable to connect a 360 to a pc? could very well be wrong mind

Yes cable that comes with the Xbox is just a normal Ethernet cable, but it worked for my Brother last night.

Actually I'm pretty sure modern on board LAN/NIC's have the capability to crossover internally when needed? Maybe this is why it worked with a normal RJ45?

Steve09 · 31 Jan 2007 at 19:17

I can't share the Internet on my PC.
Under my Wireless connection there is no sharing bit under advance, but there is under my LAN connection.

Andy298 · 31 Jan 2007 at 19:25

stevechapman said:
I can't share the Internet on my PC.
Under my Wireless connection there is no sharing bit under advance, but there is under my LAN connection.

Surely you don't need to share out a wireless connection as that's what wireless does anyway. Unless of course you have a non-wireless device? Therefore you'd need to either hard wire it to your router (i'm assuming you have a wireless router anyway?) or hard wire it to your PC and set up ICS on your LAN connection.

Steve09 · 31 Jan 2007 at 19:33

Andy298 said:
Surely you don't need to share out a wireless connection as that's what wireless does anyway. Unless of course you have a non-wireless device? Therefore you'd need to either hard wire it to your router (i'm assuming you have a wireless router anyway?) or hard wire it to your PC and set up ICS on your LAN connection.

I don't know.
I have a Belkin USB adaptor for my Wireless connection, but under that connection I can't share.
A 360 wireless adaptor is a total rip off at £50 odd so I won't be getting one of those if I get a 360

I was hoping to ICS my Wireless connection (like shown in this thread by OP) because if I were to hard wire my PC to Router or 360 to Router, I would have to run the cable from the hallway, up the stairs, across the landing and into my bedroom, 15 metres!

Nikumba · 31 Jan 2007 at 20:00

While I dont use ICS for live connection but wont leaving the Windows filewall on prevent connection?

Kimbie

Stellios · 31 Jan 2007 at 20:06

Nikumba said:
While I dont use ICS for live connection but wont leaving the Windows filewall on prevent connection?

Depends, ive had bother with it, and i havent. If you can turn it off then I would recommend it, but if your running through a USB modem and its the only firewall yoru running then i wouldnt recommend disabling it.