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Trying to bridge Xbox 360 connection through PC.

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pantsaregood

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My PC communicates with my router by a PCI WiFi card. My Xbox is from 2005, and I don't have a WiFi adapter. I can't reach the router with my Xbox, but I can reach my computer's gigabit ethernet port.

Unfortunately, attempting to connect my 360 directly to my PC doesn't seem to accomplish anything. Both ends of the connection insist there isn't an ethernet cable in. When I attempt to connect them with a switch, the PC correctly connects through the switch, but the Xbox does nothing.

Is there something I'm missing here? I can bridge the connections, but it doesn't matter because my Xbox makes no attempt to communicate with anything since it doesn't see a connection available. Any ideas on how to fix this?
 
If only it was that simple.

Turns out the ethernet port on my 360 is dead. No idea what happened - may have been during a storm a few weeks ago. Too bad. It also killed two ports on my router and the ethernet port on another computer in the house. I have no idea why it didn't kill the modem.
 
Lightning: that sucks.

But, one thing: did you try more than one ethernet cable? Cables going bad: not unusual.

Very strange that lightning didn't take everything--but, it's strange stuff--
 
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