Saturday, January 27, 2007

If you do not have the money to spend on the Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter (pictured), then the following steps will guide you on how to connect your wi-fi enabled notebook computer and (techincally) go wireless without connecting your console to a modem situated far far away.


"Here's what you do:

Select Control Panel/Network Connections and while hovering over Network Connections, right click and choose Open. This will open a panel that should list your network connections. The two adapters that matter are your wireless adapter and your Ethernet adapter.

If you have both Ethernet and wireless adapters (and you must in order for this to work), then both of them will be listed in the Network Connections panel. Using the ctrl-click selection method or the drag-area method, select both adapters.

Right-click one of the adapters and select the Bridge Connections option.

You will see a notification that the bridge is being built. This may take a few moments.

Once the bridge is complete, you will see the bridge icon and the network adapters.

The bridge is only partially complete at this point. To complete the configuration, you need to relate the network adapters to the bridge. I'm not exactly sure why this is because you have to select the adapters to create the bridge in the first place. In any case, select the bridge, right-click and select Properties.
In the Properties dialog, put check marks in the network adapters that you want to bridge. Make sure you select the wireless and Ethernet adapters.
Now, the bridge is complete. It will take a few moments for your laptop to finish the configuration, get a new DHCP lease and complete the connections.
To verify if your bridge works, connect the XBox 360 to your laptop's Ethernet port and connect with XBox Live."

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