Not if I want to keep a Gigabit connection to my computer - Gigabit routers are much more expensive (still) and putting a 10/100 between my computer and my Gigabit router is a bottleneck.

Otherwise... could've used this a month ago :P but I'm OK now. Didn't look at the article but its essentially Internet Connection Sharing and the instructions are on the Xbox 360 site.

@wickedpheonix

what good does a gigabit LAN connection do if most peoples internet maxes out at 4Mbps??

oh i dunno... LOCAL transfers? most people have more than one computer at home these days you know.

Personally, I keep all of my movies, music, etc on a headless fileserver with 2TB of storage, and stream it to my media center via gigabit LAN.

Surely the power costs of running a PC/laptop every time you want to go on Live, and all the time you're connected, would end up costing more than the $100 wifi adapter?

Me? I got a preowned wifi adaptor for £25 after staff discount. Works like a charm.

No, becuase I've seen a girl naked.

congratulations... uv found wt other nerds like you call "porn"

Bridging connections was hot in the early 90s maybe, but I can't believe people are still doing this. Considering how cheap hubs and routers are, not to mention how cheap setting up a wireless network is.

Such a waste of energy, I would never suggest such a thing for anyone.

setting up a wireless network is easy. but who wants to be ripped off by paying 100 dollars for a wi fi adapter you know should cost only half that much.

So it seems you don't like this technique, I'm guessing by your posts...

Good ol' anticrawl. As far away from acting like an asshole as an asshole can possibly get.

That is the majority of what has been wrong with live the past 3 weeks bro. It wasn't live gaming so much for me, but insanly long times to load up the dashboard and features. That or they just didn't load up at all.

your connection does not help either. 3MBit speeds are really stone age. Thats only a 375 k/sec download rate. Now suppose you managed to get your xbox to use up all the bandwidth from your connection (which I doubt since your computer is using some im sure). Then it would still take several seconds to view a picture around 1mb in size.

Sheesh! 3mbps bad?! I'm at 1.5 and its about the best you can get. Heck the school district here is running on two 1.5 lines.

You guys must have figured out how to tap into an internet backbone or something...

*feels really lucky he can almost spit on the telephone exchange where he lives so he gets a good speed.*

I'm only on 512kbps but so long as nobody is running around Google Earth on the network I get a ping of 20-25 on all the games I play.

I can't imagine ~300kbps being much worse? Maybe getting 30-35 ping.

Aye, i'm on 3 Mbps DSL, and i wouldn't see why you would want to pay out the ass for Cable to get something any faster, but then again i don't do too much heavy downloading.

I envy you guys.

My downloads are capped at 30kbps.

It takes me friggin 6 HOURS to download a WoW patch.

I would advise against this so much. I find that all the bridges I make between my Local Area Connection and my Wireless Internet Connection usually break after a while. It's a much better route to just enable your Wireless Internet Connection or your main internet connection to allow Internet Connection Sharing. It's more diverse and will allow for any amount of connections to take advantage of that Wireless/Wired internet your PC uses, not just the 360 connection.

No, ICS is WORSE for gaming. Please. Stick with things you know. I do this for a living. I'm a network administration and database program.

ICS is just setting up a another DHCP and DNS on your network. If you Wireless Access Point you're connecting is already a DHCP and DNS you don't need to set up another which is what ICS does. It's redundant and it'll increase the network latency. An increase in network latency means more lag for your gaming which makes it all the less enjoyable.

And wtf!? Making a network bridge instead of using ICS will "eventually break". That's complete nonsense. It's like saying "Oh, I won't change your desktop background to red because eventually...it'll turn green."

And as for the stating bridging won't allow any connection, shows you don't know what youre talking about. Any device will work. You don't configure anything on the 360. I do the opposite sometimes. I connect my laptop to my router via my cellphone by tethering and set up an Adhoc network for my Nintendo DS to connect to the internet via WiFi. This is just by bridging connections (since my cellphone runs a DHCP for ICS).

Start
Run
ncpa.cpl
Select both your ethernet and wireless connection.
Right click and hit Bridge Connection.

typos: *database programmer* & *I connect my laptop to the internet via my cellphone*

In case you missed it, I'm speaking of the price of gas out weighing the amount of money you saved for taking the trip. Actually it would be more like 20 miles, forgot you'd have to drive back hahaha...

I was about to comment that some idiot wouldn't understand your analogy, then I kept reading. Lmao.

Not really. I just set up Windows ICS in my brother's room so he could have Xbox Live access. His computer is connected wirelessly because it's not practical to run ethernet up the stairs to his room without a lot of work. He runs his computer 24/7 anyways, so I just plugged a crossover cable into his PC and Xbox, enabled Windows ICS, and there you go, he has Xbox Live that functions fine.

But you're right; I'm cheap and totally should have gone out and bought a $100 wireless adapter that costs Microsoft $5 to make.

you dont buy an off the shelf normal wireless router, you buy a off the shelf normal wireless access point, which can be found for $30. Does the job just fine. You just dont know what your shopping for.

I obviously, but they're usually much more expensive than normal routers... You'd be lucky to get one for under $60, as most go for over $100. Keep in mind that this laptop trick is *FREE*.

That's what I'm using too. but I just tried this out and this is definitely an improvement.

So true.

What kind of wireless adaptor is it?