Xbox n t3h Interwebs
I'm having trouble connecting my Xbox 360 to t3h interwebs. I'm using a cable that's supposed to let me connect it to the internet via my laptop, but if I try to let the Xbox access it I can't connect to the internet on my laptop or my Xbox. Anyone know how to fix that?
(I know that it's possible to do, because my brother already did it.)
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What's your actual setup look like? Like, what is plugging into where, exactly?
I have many years of experience plugging lots of cables into lots of ports: internet, coaxial, RCA, HDMI, surround sound, etc. and so forth, and I tend to always get it working right. If you give me the setup in detail I can probably tell you what's wrong.
My brother has an ethernet cable that apparently allows the Xbox to use the internet off my laptop when connected to both, which you apparently cannot do with a normal one. Even though it's plugged in, the Xbox can't access the internet. My brother thought I might need to change the network settings to "allow other computers to access this computer's internet connection" but that just made it so that my laptop couldn't access the internet.
I know it's possible, because my brother did it. I don't know how, and my brother doesn't remember, though.
Hmm...That is, unfortunately, something I've never heard of before.
I figured there was a router involved somewhere or something.
Sorry I can't help.
For all I know, there was supposed to be a router, and my brother just forgot.
Question: how can the cable be connected to both? Does it split?
Or do you, say, run a cable from the modem to the laptop to get 'net to the laptop, then this special cable from the laptop to the Xbox to pull the 'net along to the Xbox, too?
Anything like that?
The laptop has wireless, and the Xbox is supposed to connect to the laptop.
Now that's just weird. I've never heard of anything like that before. As far as I know, the laptop can't act as a router in that way; it's built to pick up internet, not to supply it to other hardware. I could be totally wrong, though.
What that means, though, is that somewhere there's a wireless router broadcasting to the laptop. You could just put the Xbox close to the router and run a cable from the router to the console.
Or, alternatively, you could pay like $100 for an Xbox wireless adapter. Fucking Microsoft.
I could do that, but then the Xbox would be in my parent's room.
Yeah, I can see how that might present a problem.
Well, I'm tapped. I got nothin'.
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