A little networking help..

ok guys heres the deal, I have my computer right now with 2 NIC cards already in it.  I want it to act as a some sort of router to use it to route the internet to my xbox 360 which sits on my desk.  The computer is running XP and is a powerful machine.  Any help you guys could give me would be great, I would only be using the routing function to head onto XBOX live with my xbox at some points.  I could buy a router but I am a cheap university student living on res so if I could do it this way it would be the best..

 

Spend $40 bucks and buy a router.  You will spend at least $40 of your time and some software getting it to work. Check in your local Sunday paper.  You should be able to catch one for less than $30 after rebate.

fair enough I guess, just wondering if it could be done.. thanks lipps

oh wow it was actually alot easier then I thought got it up and running in about 20 mins didn't need any special software, just used XP and the ICS function!

 

 

 

Wow, you were very fortunate getting it to work that easy.  Usually you take a performance hit when you do it this way.  Is your Xbox connection lagging much?

umm so far i've played MLB 2k6 and NHL 07 and no lag thus far so it seems to be working quite nicely which makes me very happy hah

im using a hub