Hijacking your laptop’s wireless connection with XBOX 360

January 23, 2007

So I got Xbox 360 last weekend on the day that I was supposed to house sit for my lovely friends Nancy and Richard. It was perfect since they have a 60-inch plus HDTV in the entertainment room. Sweet… I could envision hours of punch drunk game playing. It was all set up and working great but I wanted to connect to Xbox Live… get it online and see what I could download or play Gears of War with some online players. The Xbox ships with an ethernet jack and wire but the router was all the way up in the bedroom (which is a silly place to have it, if you ask me, Nancy… but I digress.) (Note: To save yourself the trouble, just pickup the Xbox Wireless Network Adaptor from your local Best Buy or gaming store.) Luckily, my laptop is always with me and they do have a nice wireless setup with some Apple Airports around the house. There must be a way to use my laptop’s wireless signal to get my Xbox online.

Indeed, there is. It’s really quite simple and I’ll give you instructions on how to do it.
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