X-box Live via a Dongle

gario900

Sorry, i know nothing about this whatsoever.
And apologies if it's posted in the wrong box.

My sister has no phone line but has a contract on a virgin dongle,
her son wants to connect x-box live, can anyone give any help how she goes about connecting.

Thanks in advance

:beer:

NiVZ

Hello,

It should be possible but can be tricky to setup. I don't have a dongle so I can't advise on specific settings.

The main steps will be:

1. Setup Internet Connection Sharing on the PC/Laptop
2. Connect the Xbox to the PC/laptop using the ethernet network cable
3. Configure the Xbox network settings

There are lots of guides for setting up Internet Connection Sharing for Xbox on the web.

Just make sure you follow the ones for Internet Connection Sharing, and not the one for 'Bridging connections' which will not work with a dongle (it's for wireless routers which work differently)

How good this will work will depend on the speed of the broadband that the dongle can get.

NiVZ

gario900

many thanx NiVZ, i'll go round in a bit and try that out and will let you know outcome

Cheers bud

kwikbreaks

I don't do gaming but most gamers seem to be obsessed with latency (ping). On a typical ADSL connctiontion you could expect 15 - 40ms but with 3G BB that can easily run from 150ms upwards. Gaming on a 3G connection is going to be very frustrating indeed I suspect.

I'm on 3G at the moment...

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=137ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=146ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=135ms TTL=118

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 126ms, Maximum = 146ms, Average = 136ms

andyb215

hmmm... might wanna keep an eye on that download limit... you should be able to do it with a share dock and an xbox wireless adaper.

Jimx26

I don't think the connection will be fast enough for gaming plus it will use a lot of data.