I am trying to connect my Xbox 360 via a crossover cable to my laptop (with Vista Premium) so it can pick up the wireless connection from my laptop, instead of spending a small fortune on some gay network adapter from Microsoft. Alas, I am having problems...
I have enabled internet connection sharing on the wireless adapter on the laptop, given the local area connection adapter a static IP address and I have also configured the Xbox 360 with a static IP address and given it the default gateway of the wireless adapter on the laptop. When I go to test the setup from the Xbox it fails on the MTU part. I have set the MTU on the laptop and the router to something like 1400 (microsoft say anything over 1364) and I still get this problem. Another strange thing is that the laptop cannot ping the Xbox using command prompt, yet it does recognise the Xbox in network places, or whatever Vista calls it now.
Has anyone ever attempted doing this before on their own setup and succeeded? Should I use a regular network cable to connect the Xbox and the laptop together, even though MOST computers link directly to each other using a crossover cable? Maybe I was just unlucky and no one could connect to Xbox Live last night, I don't know....
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