Xbox 360 and ICS question...

[DigitalCancer]

Ok...so I'm too cheap right now to buy a $100 wireless adapter for the 360 and I have a 'media PC' right next to it anyway.

The Media PC is using a Wireless card and has an un-used ethernet adapter. I had set it up with ICS and assigned my wifi card as 192.168.1.3 and so the wired card got 192.168.1.7 and 255 subnet and the gateway was set as 192.168.1.3.

I then setup the 360 w/ the corresponding IP's...192.168.1.5, subnet of 255 and gateway as 192.168.1.7 and then set the DNS servers. Worked perfectly..with a cross-over cable.

Then...it wasn't working. I checked the pc and the 2nd NIC was gone! So I had to restart it and it came back but the 360 wouldn't reconnect to the net.

I goofed around and never could get it to work...I have now setup with a bridged connection which seems to be working but...I want to know if this is the right way to do it? I've only used bridged connections for 'internal network sharing' rather than net sharing.

Thanks for any input!

 

[theblaznee]

If I understand it right, then your media pc is setup as a bridge both before and now..

Bridging is the way to do a setup like that, unless you want some sort of security layer between the xbox and the rest of your lan..

 

[DigitalCancer]

ahh...I had a setup similar to this before but I had shared the 2nd NIC and had to put in the ip's for the NIC/Xbox, etc. It was a crazy setup but thought it worked well. ^_^ Seems I was just doing it the complicated way? So far, the 360 is working perfectly online though so I guess i'll leave it this way. ^_^

Thanks for confirming.