Using an X Box 360 online through a laptop's connection to a router, possible?

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|Thomas|, what kind of connection issues where you experiencing? When you manually configured the connections, did you put in the IP, Default Gateway, and Primary DNS? Your Default Gateway and Primary DNS should always be the IP address of your Router (if that is connected directly to the broadband connection). I've got these settings configured on each of my adapters in my PC first, and then I create a bridge and give the bridge new details. So for eg my setup is like this:

Wireless adapter IP: 192.168.0.7
Wired adapter IP: 192.168.0.8
Network bridge IP: 192.168.0.1

All of those IP's are allowed through the firewall in both the router and my software firewall using a security rule. When the network bridge has been created, I have to run the "netsh bridge set a 1 e" command before I am able to browse the Internet on my PC, as this has the wireless card inside it, which is in turn connected to the router, which is connected to the internet. That command forces certain wireless adapters to behave in a certain way, allowing you to browse the internet if you have connection troubles beforehand.

I honestly can't see that having a static or a dynamic IP address would make any difference, unless you didn't input the Default Gateway and Primary DNS IP's when you set the connection details.

Let me know how you get on.
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To get it to work I put in a static IP and left the subnet mask as it was (255.255.255.0) on the wired network. I left the DNS/gateway blank because I presumed I wouldn't need them because the gateway and router would be on the wireless network. When I bridge the connections and try to type in a fixed IP, gateway etc it just won't work. I can't connect to any other devices on the network let alone the internet.

And my wireless adapter is a intel pro/wireless 2200BG (inbuilt), they're might be some software for it on the master disk, I'll have a look :)

Thanks for your help :)
 
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When you say you are unable to enter the details in for the network bridge, what are you doing to try and enter these details? The network bridge is just a virtual network connection and as such should allow you to input all the details just as you would for a physical network adapter. Right-click it, choose properties, select Internet Protocol from the list, and click Properties again. Then click on Use the following IP address, and manually enter in your IP details, subnet will auto-enter by default so leave that as it is, and then enter in your Gateway and DNS settings (the IP of your router. Note that this IP is your routers internal IP, not the one that it is receiving from your ISP. It'll match your network card's IP, with the last numbers altered slightly).

Soz if I'm telling you all this and you already know it, I'm just trying to save some time :)
 
Sorry what I meant was I entered in all the details (IP, subnet, gateway & DNS) into the bridge as you said and it doesn't work, the bridge says it's not connected and when I try to access the internet/other computers on the network it doesn't work. If I leave it with automatic it seems to work for some reason :confused:

I'm not particularly bothered really, I can live with a naff IP :)
 
Lol :)

Well with my bridge, sometimes it takes a little while before it connects itself when I have updated the IP, but then after that initial wait, it works consistently after each reboot. Have you tried the netsh commands that I posted up above? They resolved all my connectivity issues with the bridge.
 
What does the command do? I ran it and it disconnected the bridge and then connected it again. Sorry about my inept dos skills :p
 
The command forces your wireless adapter into a certain state, allowing it to connect to the network in a more compatible way. This usually resolves a lot of connectivity issues, and seems to be a common issue with many wireless cards on the market at the moment.

The article here explains this all in more detail, and describes just exactly what the command does.
 
Dude I could kiss you! :D :p I've got the bridge working on the other laptop using that command (it doesn't have a battery so it's pretty useless for anything else), thank you so much! :)
 
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