Computer Tutorials

I am writing this tutorial because I had about 5 hours of stress while trying to do this for the first time! yes, I’m serious and it really got to me. Hopefully this tutorial will stop other people from facing the same fate as I did.

You want to connect to your Xbox Live on your Xbox 360 but you don’t have a wireless adapter or your modem is not within reach, so your going to need to share you Internet connect on your computer of laptop.

My laptop is running Windows Vista Home Premium and has a wireless connection to my router.. and that’s what I used to connect my Xbox 360 to Xbox Live and below you will find out how I managed to do this and it was not using ICS - Internet Connection Sharing because for some odd reason that would not work with Vista for me! The way that I managed to get everything working was to bridge my LAN with my Wireless… Below are the steps to take.

1. Setup your Xbox 360 and your Laptop/PC
2. Plug the Ethernet cable into your Xbox 360 and your Laptop/PC
3. Make sure your Computer is connected to the Internet
4. On your computer follow these steps:

1. Click on Start to bring up your Start Menu
2. Type in to the search bar network sh
3. Now at the top you should see Network and Sharing Center, Click on this
4. On the left hand side click on Manage Network Connections
5. Highlight both your Wireless connection and your Local Area Connection (LAN)
6. Right Click on one of them (Note: both should be highlighted at this point)
7. Select Bridge Connections

Now the rest it quite simple its just a case of confirming everything and agreeing to anything windows asks you to do once you have done this make sure you are still connected to the Internet on your Laptop/PC as it did kick me off a few times to start with, don’t worry about this just reset your Internet.

Once you have Internet on your computer go onto your Xbox 360 and test your connection. you should now be able to acquire an IP and DNS if not then repeat this process until you succeed or try something else because this was the last method I tried and the one that happened to work for me tho other methods my work equally as well for you!

I hope this helped and I hope you are Connected to Xbox Live now!

If you are having problems using a bridged connection you may need to use and ICS connection instead, Lucky for you I have a tutorial on this to Connect Xbox Using ICS 

If you have visted my site in the last day or to you may have received an error or something that slightly looked like my site, or maybe you received nothing but a blank page!

I’m sorry to all that received such responses while trying to view my site, the reason for this is down to Hosted my now old hosting company, if you click on Hosted you will see that they are no longer providing Domains or Hosting as of the 15th of October 2007.

This came as quite a shock to me because there had been no proir contact from them stating that anything was a miss. I received the email from them telling me about this on the 19th!!!

So since then I have been arranging everything to move my site to a new company which is why you may have received down time from adamsvds.co.uk.  Everything is back up and running fine now you should not receive any more issues from the site, if however you do find soemthing that you think is a miss please feel free to contact me and let me know.

I am now hosted with Weycrest and tho I have had  a few issues moving the site over and getting everything working again, they have been quick to responde and offer good advice and quick assistance.

Thank you for your patience

Adam Nugent

It’s been some time now since my last post, for this I apologise

Now I have got some time back in my life and have been writing a few tutorials, I am going to be adding at least one tutorial per day for as long as I can.  Hopefully this will be an on going thing now and I’ll actually be able to grow the site.

As you may have noticed already, the tutorials that I’ll be adding will mainly be based on Windows Vista as this is the Operating System that I am now using.  Many people have been bad mouthing Vista… I’m still unsure why? maybe it is because I have quite a good understanding of computers that has made it possible for me to have a smooth transition… maybe I’m lucky… either way I’m loving Microsoft’s new version of Windows.

I will try to write and add as many tutorials as possible, hopefully making this Vista shadow that most people have disappear by making it as simple for you to use as possible and giving you the solutions to all your issues.

Once I have the cash and the time I will also be getting the whole site redesigned so that I can brand myself and give myself more of a nice welcoming image.. if anyone has any suggestions I’d love to hear from you.

That’s about it for now guys/gals talk to you all soon

Adam Nugent