Bridge A Network Connection In Windows 7 (X-box-PC & PC-PC)

A couple months ago, i was helping a friend with her laptop in which the onboard wireless card did not function due to a missing driver after she had it serviced by Dell only a few days before. SOOO...i called up the company and had them figure the whole thing out...the Tech had me go all over the computer to find out that the wireless card was missing its corresponding driver. and the replaccement disks they sent her with the newly fixed laptop didnt contain the right driver (go figure...I still have yet to see that Dell gets anything right). SOOO the tech asked me to use an ethernet cable to connect to my router. naturally i wasnt around my router, so i tried the only other alternative...i tried to utilize my laptop as a router using the ethernet ports on both computers. needless to say it didnt work. SOOOOO i was forced to utilize my router.

now two weeks before Christmas, i went to my mom's house so she could see me, my wife, son, and daughter. My stepfather has a wireless network on the far side of my stepgrandmother's house which is 5 feet from their house. the connection sucked...but my laptop still managed to recieve the signal. My brother's netbook however didnt got such a crappy signal that it would cut out on him and would stop working completely. So he asked me to bridge my connection to him...i didnt know how to do it and he didnt know how to run my computer cause he was making a HUGE leap from XP to WIN7Ult.

just a day or so from this posting, i found out its possible to bridge a connection to the X-Box using a regular ethernet cable. so i learned and bridged my laptop with my brother in law's x-box 360. he is a happy camper. he no longer has to buy the POS wireless adapter that MSFT sells...

This is where i am now...

In this Instructable, i am going to teach you how to bridge a connection between an X-Box and a Computer, as well as how to Make a bridge from a host computer already recieving wireless to a client that has no wireless connection

Step 1 Materials

For this 'Ible your going to need the following;

1) A Host PC
2) An X-Box OR Client PC
3) A CATV Ethernet Cable OR CATV X-Over Cable