Comments on: Hijacking your laptop’s wireless connection with XBOX 360

By: Joost

Joost — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:33:42 +0000

I got exactly the same problem as PS does. He fails on the IP Address, I can’t solve the problem and i’ve been searching over google 2 hours but I still don’t know how to solve it! Any suggestions?

By: yeti

yeti — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:09:06 +0000

what if have vista

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:34:38 +0000

When I click on ‘Allow other computers to access the internet through this computer’s internet connection’ on the properties of my wireless connection it comes up with an error. The error says ‘Internet sharing cannot be enabled. A LAN connection is already configured with the IP address that is required for automatic IP addressing’. Are any of you guys able to explain a way around this?
p.s. I’m using xp and have the ethernet cable connected to a 360 60gb.
Thanks,
Nick

By: jedi buchanan

jedi buchanan — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:03:06 +0000

hi,
i have wireless at home, but i am not an administrator… i have my own laptop with the usb wireless connection…
could i still use the ethernet cable to connect to xbox live? if so, how?
thanks

By: Jasper

Jasper — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:43:33 +0000

I’ve seen this method in a few different places and I can’t pull up an “advanced tab.” I’m running on vista. where can i change this?

By: PS

PS — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:42:12 +0000

Thanks for the info. I am running Win XP but I am getting errors stating that the Xbox 360 cannot find the IP Address. The laptop does have Internet connection.

By: MIles Jackson

MIles Jackson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:28:32 +0000

Will this work using a macbook and verizon broadband card!! don’t have the card yet but want to know first

By: Keenu

Keenu — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:03:49 +0000

Didn’t work for me. I am going to try Nav’s suggestion and hopefully the following website will work. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909536/en-us?sd=xbox

If not I am not sure what else to try!

Thanks Keenu

By: Keely

Keely — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:19:09 +0000

im with JUJ ive tried this too but it doesnt find the IP.. I see people talking about switching the IP and subnet but how do you do it?

By: will

will — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:42:20 +0000

thanks dude, works perfectly for me!

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:41:52 +0000

Hey i got mine to confirm the IP address but the DNS is failing every time what do i do?

By: jon

jon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:38:35 +0000

it works fine on mine i also have a 3g broadband air card through at@t. if you receive no ip address while testing your connection it’s because under advanced controls under your air card settings it’s not set up as local area network

By: mark

mark — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:30:45 +0000

what the hell is dns?anyways it says dns failed and i cant figure out what it is

By: clc

clc — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:21:33 +0000

how will i be able to connect my xbox through my laptop as i am using windows vista

any help?

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:20:20 +0000

Nice,
is there any way to connect a wireless broadband card (Sprint) instead? I’ll save you the hassle on what I tried…

1. Bridging does not work (it recognizes the pcmcia card as a dial up and won’t let it bridge)
2. Sharing it shows a “wired” network adaptor, but fails on the IP Address.

Any suggestions?

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:27:11 +0000

I have a laptop with windows Vista home basic
and ive looked everywere to find out how to do it on vista
could you help me out
Thanks

By: Mystery man

Mystery man — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:19:58 +0000

try enabling a firewall

For Windows XP Users: windows firewall

For Mac: if theres one built in Mac Os x use it otherwise download one from download.com i had the same probleam and this fixed it hope it helps you too.

By: john

john — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:50:33 +0000

would like to know what is the best/cheapest way to connect the xbox 360/TV from my laptop using an air card.

thank john

By: JUJ

JUJ — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:19:54 +0000

every time i do this mine cant find my ip adress??

By: Nav

Nav — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:41:43 +0000

It’s a lot more complicated than that. with simply bridging the connection, your xbox 360 will be limited to strict or moderate, thus restricting connection to a lot of xbox live content. you will need to manually configure the xbox ip and gateway to allow a open nat connection.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:21:01 +0000

What was the error you got on Marketplace? Its possible that your wireless connection to your laptop is weak or spotty and there are too many packets being lost while transferring data from marketplace, but if thats true ythe your xbox live service will be sluggish as well. Give me a little more info or try calling xbox support, of course.

By: Kobe

Kobe — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:59:19 +0000

I did this and it worked fine to get connected to xbox live, but I could not download anything from XBOX live marketplace. Is there anything else I need to do?

By: Kobe

Kobe — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:59:04 +0000

I did this and it worked fine, but I could not download anything from XBOX live marketplace. Is there anything else I need to do?