2007-08-30, 07:41
you should just hook your other xbox into the router then 
2007-08-30, 07:47
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.
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.
2007-08-30, 07:48
Oh also, you can only have one of these enabled. It's either a network bridge or ICS but not both.
2007-08-30, 17:08
well what good is having a network bridge if I can't share files? I mean the whole point is tostream media to my xbox, right? I'm not sure I follow 
2007-08-31, 03:01
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.
By bridging your connection, it allows your xbox to connect to the same network where you should be able to browse the same workgroups.
2007-08-31, 03:04
ooOoo... I see. I'll try that out asap. How about actually connecting to the internet though?
2007-08-31, 03:07
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.
My guess is just to check your router settings to make sure you'll still be able to connect.
2007-08-31, 04:50
Dang. I tried bridging the network but for some reason I couldn't connect to the internet through wireless. It was weird, it would say it was connected to the network, yet I couldn't ping any other computers on the network and I couldn't access the router... any ideas?
2007-08-31, 05:07
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.
Check the ip address of your bridge to see if it is valid for your network.
2007-08-31, 05:32
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.
2007-08-31, 05:38
