Sharing Wifi to XBOX 360 on a Windows 10 Laptop

ShadowCreative · Jan 3, 2020

Sharing Wifi to XBOX 360 on a Windows 10 Laptop

I have received an old xbox 360 as a gift to my kids for Christmas and am trying every which way to connect it to internet having lost the use of the Pelican adapter (it came with) which is no longer supported.

I don't want to buy a brand new adapter as this 360 is old technology that may not even be supported anymore should I waste the money to try, and because it should be able to get wifi through the laptop I connected it to via Ethernet cord.

Every article I have read says this should be no problem to do once you have turned on the laptop's wifi connection sharing, yet I am still unable. The Xbox gives the same complaint of being unable to find an IP address or that my modem is not permitting
access to the IP.

At this point I am unsure if maybe its a windows 10 problem (as the 360 was made during Vista timeline), and perhaps its a version compatibility issue or it its my modem settings...

I contacted my internet provider (Shaw) who did not want to help me saying this was a Windows issue tho I disagreed. My laptop sharing settings are all enabled and working.

Is there a way to have the 360 share the laptops wifi? Or am I crazy lol. Has anyone figured this out?

Thanks! Happy New Year.
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It should work.

There're two options:

- Internet sharing

- Bridge connection

Before you proceed with
this guide be sure to reset your Xbox network settings.

Have you connected your Xbox 360 directly to your router, so that you know for a fact that it can, properly, obtain an IP from the DHCP server ?

:)