No PCI slots left, so how to Set up my xbox and pc to run through broadband?

Jamie Keck · 28-11-2004, 12:05 PM

I want to connect my xbox to broadband, for xbox live. I have not got any room in my PC for a PCI Network card and my current ADSL modem is very basic with just a USB connection.

Is this correct and the easiest way to do it:

Could I buy a wireless ASDL modem/router and a USB wireless "dongle".
Plug the xbox, using a cross over cable, into the eithernet port on the wireless ASDL modem/router, then plug that into a ASDL filter, then that into the phone socket. Then to connect my PC, just plug in the USB wireless "dongle" into a spare USB 2.0 socket on my PC.

Would that work? Do i need a particular spec of ASDL modem/router? is there an easier/cheaper way?

OwenR · 28-11-2004, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Jamie Keck

Would that work? Do i need a particular spec of ASDL modem/router? is there an easier/cheaper way?

You could just get one of these and set you PC to act as a router.

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=55513

"The USB Network Adaptor allows you to instantly connect to a network from any Windows 98, Windows 2000 USB enabled PC, notebook PC, or a USB hub.Hub Connect a standard Category 5 network cable to one end of the adaptor, connect the other end to your PC or USB hubHub with a standard USB cable, install the driverDriver included, and go. You'll be networked in no time."

I assume that would work.
Just connect you ADSL mondem as normal and plug your cross over cable into the network adapter. Allow internet sharing on that network, make sure all the relevant ports are open on your firewall and away you go!

OwenR · 28-11-2004, 02:16 PM

Why can't you delete posts??!

DJNafey · 28-11-2004, 03:18 PM

Note that crossover cables are only for connecting one PC directly to another PC. You'll need a bog-standard CAT5 or CAT5e cable for connecting a device to a hub or router.

Jamie Keck · 28-11-2004, 03:35 PM

Kewl, kewl, thanks.... presumably I won't be able to surf the net, whilst connected to xbox live though will I?

.... so if I buy this gizmo, what kinda cable do i need to connect my xbox to it?

DJNafey · 28-11-2004, 03:50 PM

I've just had a look at the product that OwenR linked to. Basically, it's an external network card. Rather than fitting it into a PCI slot inside your PC, you plug it into a USB port on the back of your PC instead. However, that doesn't actually make a network, it just gives you a network port on the back of the external box so that you can cable that with a standard CAT5 cable to a hub. Then, when another device connects with a CAT5 cable to another port in the hub, you've got a network of two devices.
Then you set up your Internet connection on the PC to be shared out with Internet Connection Sharing to other devices on the network.

I very much doubt that you'd be able to plug one of these external network card adaptors into the back of the XBox as there won't be any XBox-compatible drivers supplied. However, if the XBox has an RJ45 network port in the back of it and that's intended to be used for a network connection, then I guess you could probably just run a standard CAT5 lead out of the back of that and into the hub so that it becomes the second device in the network.

Sorry if that's a bit vague - I know enough about networking but nothing whatsoever about XBoxes!

Jamie Keck · 28-11-2004, 04:02 PM

Thanks, that's really helpful.... Yeah it is a RJ45 connection on the back of the xbox.

So I need a USB Network Adaptor, a ethernet network hub and a TWO RJ45 (CAT5) cables?

The order to be connected would be:

ADSL modem connected to the PC, PC pluged via USB into a network adaptor, that plugged into a network hub via a CAT5 cable, then another CAT5 cable plugs from the hub into the xbox?

Is that right?

DJNafey · 28-11-2004, 04:51 PM

That's it - you've got it

But don't forget to plug the ADSL modem into the telephone socket in the wall, lol

Jamie Keck · 28-11-2004, 05:04 PM

LOL....

Nice one mate, thanks for all your help, I really appriacate it.

OwenR · 28-11-2004, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DJNafey

That's it - you've got it

But don't forget to plug the ADSL modem into the telephone socket in the wall, lol

Why does he need the network hub though?

Surely the connection can go...

ADSL modem - PC USB - USB network adapter - Xbox.

That's how I run my ps2 online.