Connecting to xbox live via OS X’s shared networking My home’s setup for internet is kind of wonky in the living room, so I have been trying to find a cheap way to hook my xbox 360 up to my home network. I had played around with a few options, but nothing really worked. Finally, I decided to try to use my MacBook’s internet sharing feature to get online.

I figured I’d post this here in case anyone else wanted to try this, or couldn’t figure it out. All I did was connect a regular ethernet cable, no need for a crossover cable, from my ethernet port to the port on the Xbox. Checked the IP assigned to the ethernet port (in terminal.app, type “ifconfig en0″ [zero, not a capital-o] and it will return the info about the config of the built-in ethernet.

On my machine it returns “inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255″. I believe OSX always uses 192.168.2.1 but it would be best to check rather than just assuming. This is how I set up my Xbox’s networking: IP Configuration: Manual IP: 192.168.2.2 Mask: 255.255.255.0 Router/Gateway: 192.168.2.1 [or the address returned from the ifconfig command above if it’s different] DNS Configuration: Manual Type in 2 DNS addresses, supplied by your ISP. If you can’t find them, type “dig” in terminal.app and after a bunch of text scrolls by, you’ll have a line starting with “SERVER” near the bottom, the IP address in that line is the DNS server your computer is using, so you can enter the same in the xbox settings. PPPoE Settings: Off Advanced: Automatic