Home Networking Problem

[Le GoogelGuRu]

I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium and I have a dialup connection and I want to share it with my XBOX 360. I tried plugging the 360 ethernet cord into my laptop while enabling ICS and keeping the dialup connection active but it rendered my laptop's use of the dialup connection unusable until I went and disabled ICS. Why can't I use my own internet connection on the host computer with ICS enabled? Am I doing something wrong? Is there another better way to link my XBOX 360 to my internet connection for sharing music and downloading XBLA games?

 

[Geoff]

You need a broadband connection to play Xbox Live, please dont ruin it for other gamers by using a dial-up connection.

As for your problem, were you able to get access to the internet on your 360 when you had ICS enabled?

 

[Le GoogelGuRu]

I'm aware that's it virtually impossible to play games on XBOX Live with a dialup connection and that wasn't my question. I was intending to use my silver membership to download updates, try out demos and just download XBOX Live Arcade games.

I think I got access to the internet on my 360 when I had ICS enabled. It connected to the server and prompted me to download an update, which I didn't do because I didn't know how big it was and then since the update was mandatory it just signed me out of XBL. When I tried to do a Network Settings test though it said the connection was wired but it couldn't resolve an IP. That's the confusing part - if it could connect to Microsoft's servers, it should be able to pass the IP test shouldn't it?