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Take this with a grain of salt because i'm pretty sure i'm quite a bit off...but here's how i think of connection sharing vs bridging.
When you use connection sharing, your computer essentially becomes a router through which other clients can connect. This means a new ip range, subnet(possibly?), and dhcp server. Since clients on the other side of the computer are on a different network, they can't see the workgroup outside of that network.
Bridging is a little different. Instead of the computer becoming the host, clients connect through its network adapters and communicate with your router.
Like I said, probably way off, but that's how i conceptualize it.
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Oh also, you can only have one of these enabled. It's either a network bridge or ICS but not both.
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ICS only shares a connection, not your files.
By bridging your connection, it allows your xbox to connect to the same network where you should be able to browse the same workgroups.
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ooOoo... I see. I'll try that out asap. How about actually connecting to the internet though?
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every time i've used it, it just worked....so i don't have much help to offer there.
My guess is just to check your router settings to make sure you'll still be able to connect.
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i finally got mine to bridge without locking my computer up. When I got connected, both the wireless and wired nic said they had no connectivity, but the bridge had an ip address. I could access the web on my computer and on the xbox I hooked it up to, as well as my network shares.
Check the ip address of your bridge to see if it is valid for your network.
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yeah i first set it to automatically find an ip adress, but that didn't work. Then i just set it to the default ip adress i set up as the standard lease under my router for my wireless. still nothing.