Connecting xbox 360 using your laptop problem?
Question by Jaredavs: Connecting xbox 360 using your laptop problem?
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…
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Even in this day and age, when you connect to computer-type devices (like an XBOX 360 and a laptop) directly to each other, you need to use a special kind of ethernet cable called a cross-over cable. Basically, when the ethernet standard was designed it assumed that every device would hook into a hub of some sort, so it used have of the wires in the cable for sending and half of the wires for receiving, which works great, until you try to hook two devices directly together. Then, both devices will try to both send on the same wires and both receive on the same wires, with the end result that no information gets through the cable. I have a sneaking suspicion that if you used a cross-over cable (available at just about any electronics retailer) to connect between your XBOX 360 and your laptop that it would solve your problem.