So I have an Xbox 360 in my room but my desktop is too far away to easily run an ethernet cable to it. I do however have a laptop with a wireless adapter on it. I did some Googleing and found that people have been able to do this through network sharing. I tried it but still no luck. When the Xbox tests the connection, it retrieves the IP address but it is unable to retrieve the DNS. Anyone got any answers?
I am trying to connect my xbox using my wireless adapter in my laptop. I know it is a fairly simple process of enabling the ICS on the LAN connection. When I attempt to check the box the message I receive is "ICS cannot be enabled, A LAN connection is already configured with the IP address that is required for automatic IP addresses." I have no idea what to do. I know there is a way to use an ethernet cable from laptop to Xbox 360 but I cannot fix this problem. I also know you can bridge the wireless connection in your laptop to your LAN which I tried but that would connect either. When I tried on xbox it failed the IP test. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I DO NOT want to spend 99 on that rip off wireless adapter…
Ok here’s the deal, i have my laptop and xbox 360 which is on one side of the room (this is quite a long room, not sure how long but i dont feel like measuring) and i have the desktop computer in the other end of the room which is connected to a wireless router. What i want to do is connect my Xbox to my laptop and then using my laptop connect to the internet, just in case ill put a little diagram:
XBOX 360 <ETHERNET CABLE> LAPTOP <WIRELESS> DESKTOP/ROUTER <INTERNET>
Now ive been google-ing around and have found many people asking the same thing and others sharing their success in connecting and saving the money instead of buying a wireless connection for xbox, i have tried a few of these methods and none have yet worked, i have tried: making a bridge connection between my wireless and xbox cable and that didnt work and just plain connecting the xbox to my laptop and wirelessly connecting. i have tried both multiple times and nothing seems to work and aside from this topic sometimes my laptop doesnt recognize the xbox and when i do xbox-laptop connection test it fails. sorry for the long question but i really wanted to express in detail.
My Xbox is connected to my laptop which gets on the internet by using a USB speedtouch dialer 
All the tests are fine and working except XBOX LIVE test
can someone please help me here
I have a motorola SB5120 Surfboard cable modem, I use this modem for my laptop to access the internet. I just recently got a xbox gold one month membership and i am trying to get online. I took the ethernet cable out of my computer to use it for xbox live, but every time I press test connection it fails. PLEASE HELP!!!
My computer is connected to the internet through a USB modem with verizon wireless. I have a Linksys WRT54G router. My laptop is connected to the router as well as my host computer. Both my laptop and my computer are able to access the internet using ICS. The XBox however fails the DNS test everytime. (XBox is attempting to connect wirelessly) If my laptop is using ICS fine then why oh why does the XBox fail?
I use a laptop to receive the wireless signal and an ethernet cable to give it to the xbox 360. I used to stay at an apartment and it ran fine on less than strong signal. Now the signal is awesome, but i cant get it to connect. My router works, my laptop is receiving the signal, the ethernet cable is good. When I try the test, it never gets past network. What should i do?
We have a netgear wireless router mr814vtw which links to a ntl modem and pc. Upstairs we have a fujitsu laptop which has an inbuilt wireless modem. We have connected this via an ethernet cable to the xbox 360. We followed the advice of some web forums in setting ip numbers but the xbox test fails at DNS test. Followed all advice but we are not getting further. Suggestions and advice gratefully received.
We have a netgear wireless router mr814vtw which links to a ntl modem and pc. Upstairs we have a fujitsu laptop which has an inbuilt wireless modem. We have connected this via an ethernet cable to the xbox 360. We followed the advice of some web forums in setting ip numbers but the xbox test fails at DNS test. Followed all advice but we are not getting further. Suggestions and advice gratefully received. we used instructions form this site http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=505131
Ive got a wireless connection and when i test for xbox live the I/P adress fails !! And i dont want to waste £50 on the xbox adapter thingy, Plz help !
and i have already typed my ip adress from my laptop into my xbox =)
i just did a speed test on my laptop using wireless connection and it come up with 8mb download and 1.3mb upload,surely this download speed is wrong.Is there a definite way of getting a accurate speed test.Also is there a way to test the speed when i am playing ps3 or xbox 360 online.Thanks for your answers.
I have a Dell laptop if that helps. It worked before but when I brought it back from my friends house I couldn’t get it to connect back to Xbox live.
why do i have to test connection ever time I want to connect to xbox live?
Im using my laptop to connect and it really gets on my nerves because whenever an update is available It restarts and then fails cause its not connected. It worked when I started but it doesn’t anymore.
