>I have a wireless  port and a  eathernet port in my computer.Im trying to
> bridge my xbox so i can go on  xbox live and play,but whenever i try to
> connect,my xbox says it cant find the dns,can anyone help me.
>
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"Kardon Coupé" wrote:

> Can you explain a little bit more? or am I getting this right?
>
> You are connecting your pc to the internet with a ADSL modem (Via USB), and
> have a ethernet port on the back of your machine, and a PCI Wireless card in
> your machine pumping out a wireless signal? or are you connecting a Wireless
> access point to your machine using the ethernet port, and trying to connect
> the Xbox up wirelessly?
>
> I'll explain my setup, I have a router with a wireless access point
> attached, and I hard-connect my Xbox to the router (saves any chances of
> loosing the signal) and I use my wireless access point for any wireless
> requirements.
>
> When I had my router set up, I have an IP address of 192.168.1.2 for the
> router, and all other machine have 192.168.1.x (x being random) but all the
> pc's connect to the default gateway (on the internet properites) of
> 198.168.1.2 and I set up the primary DNS of 192.168.1.2 which is the router
> too. Basically what you need to be telling the Xbox is the IP address you
> are wanting it to connect to the internet through, as the Xbox will have
> it's own IP, allocated by the DCHP, or if you manually set one up.
>
> DNS Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service
> that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are
> alphabetic, they're easier to remember. The Internet however, is really
> based on IP Addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS
> service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For
> example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.
>
> The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn't know
> how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on,
> until the correct IP address is returned.
> I hope any of this information might help you get your XBOX online, as I
> know I had a problem the first time I tried to setup and i found it
> annoying...
>
> P.s. I don't know if Xbox does support wireless links though, as when I
> first went down that route they didn't advise it....
>
> Regards.
>
> "WalterM via WindowsKB.com" <u26059@uwe> wrote in message
> news:663e946351e08@uwe...
> >I have a wireless  port and a  eathernet port in my computer.Im trying to
> > bridge my xbox so i can go on  xbox live and play,but whenever i try to
> > connect,my xbox says it cant find the dns,can anyone help me.
> >
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