How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

I have a hub so I can connect the pc and the xbox at the same time I was just wondering if someone here could let me know step by step how to do it or tell me if this is correct

1. connect modem to the hub
2. connect the hub to the network card
3. connect the xbox to the hub

all the connecting will be done using single ethernet wire

so let me know as I would like the xbox and the pc to be used at the same time

cheers in advance.

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

a hub wont work you need a router . Your modem will only assign 1 ip so only one device using a hub can access the net. You should be able to set up ICS from your pc and serve the net to your xbox though and not use the hub at all. But you will need 2 enet ports on the pc one for the modem connecting with straight patch cable and a cross over cable between the pc and xbox

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

tried a router and didnt work the speeds was awful

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or I do have two network cards

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

Its possible to do ICS with linux but don't ask me how

I know it involves the use of Iptables for setting up a NAT but beyond that i'm clueless

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

There's plenty of howtos on that anyway dragon, Google is your friend ;)

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

What router did you try before?


I can't see ICS being better than using an actual hardware router.

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

Don't know about that, there are some pretty awful routers around

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

it was the router that vm was giving away free in the telewest days

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If it is Linux your using then ics is really simple using firestarter.

http://www.fs-security.com/docs/connection-sharing.php

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

I keep get firestarter startup failed... on boot yet it appears to be active when you run the GUI :confused:

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

I`ve used ics in Linux now for the whole 15 months practically and it`s been great for our needs.
Having 2 bb connections kinda put off the need for any router at first i suppose,especially with only the 2 machines.As more have been added though ics and the little switching hub i have been just as good....if not better than a router would be......in some ways that is.

Both desktops here(mine & girls) can act as router/firewall/gateway depending on which connection is being shared around the rest of the house and as everything usually runs through my machine beforehand everything is so easy to control & monitor.
Everything is filtered as appropriate for relevant machines and i`m happy to say we`ve never had a problem.All machines are quite capable of recieving the full 20Mb...when we`re getting the full 20Mb of course:)

I have access to all internal machines(kids) as it were with ssh & vnc etc but none of them have access to me....purely because nothing like that runs on this machine of course.:)
Always have all ports closed & icmp filtering always on in firestarter so anything that is`nt some requsted web page is dropped at that the door so to speak.

Plenty blocked connections but not much else.

The only time i`ve had firestarter "fail" is when my network settings have been wrong,such as having my eth0 & eth1 mixed up etc.

A mistake many seem to make is assuming firestarter should be left to run or made to run at startup etc(or assuming firestarter IS the firewall etc).This is NOT the case of course...
Firestarter is merely a gui frontend for iptables and whenever your "configuring" is done you should close firestarter again.

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

anyone got a step by step guide on how to do it I have to nic cards in my pc any help would be great

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

What os are you using DL.
If it is Linux your using(i never know with you;)) and both your nic`s are showing up ok(ifconfig or lspci to check) then it`s merely a case of going into the network settings and setting one to DHCP for your internet/modem and giving the other a static ip(best way i think...192.168.0.1) with the appropriate subnet mask(in Ubuntu that gets set automatically in the network manager when you click on the empty field)....leave the gateway empty.

Then, install firestarter,go through the wizard setting the appropriate nic(eth0/eth1 etc) for your internet & the other for Internet Connection Sharing on the next page.You can use the DHCP server in firestarter for multiple machines but i`ve always found giving your connected machines static ip`s works better.

Click "save" once your done and if everything is connected properly then firestarter should run ok.If theres no problems just close firestarter once done.

Adding another pc etc is as simple as giving it a static ip(192.168.0.2) with the appropriate subnetmask and the correct gateway...i.e the second nic`s ip address.I imagine it would be much the same for an Xbox although dont quote me on that.
If you turn round and say....but it`s Windows......;)

The firestarter guide i posted is easy to follow btw;)

EDIT:AS zing said you do need a straight ethernet cable for modem to pc and a crossover cable from the second nic to >other device<
EDIT2:You can do all this via iptables yourself if your brave enough of course.;)

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

Or clever NICS, i have seen a couple (pertiucally in laptops) that can autosence

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Thanks you never know with me and how ever it is windows I had to give ubuntu up as my family can only use windows so until I get me a lappy gotta stick with windows xp

I am still yet to try it but willl let you guys know once done

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

Could always dual boot ;)

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A wiz havin tae guess;)

vm even??
Ubuntu vm, running on top of XP host.........running Wine to run XP app....:)

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

when dual booting is it best to use seperate hd's

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It doesn't really matter just be a bit careful about which partition you install to ;)

Formatting the wrong partition or even drive is a pain in the backside and I should know Did it once when reinstalling windows wiped my Data drive instead

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

Dont matter really although two drives is always an advantage i think, regardless of what your doing with them.:)
All our desktops use two drives although none are ever Windows on mine.
There is an xp drive on the other desktop there though.

If using one drive i think the easiest way is to just to split the drive in two,install windows first and leaving the other half unallocated install *buntu(for example) to "largest continous free space".

The same if your just shrinking your current Windows partition,just leave the newly created space unallocated and install *buntu to "largest continuous free space" during the partitioning stage.

Of course you can start faffing about with manual partitioning and making XYZ partitions beforehand but the quickest,easiest way is the above imo.

EDIT:remembering of course to defrag a few times first if carving a current Windows partition/drive up.

Re: How do I wire a hub to my pc and xbox?
 

Execpt in laptops of course where its generally not possible to have 2 internal drives... although I believe there to be a few laptops around that actually can/do have 2 hard-drives.

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1 drive,2 drives.....dont matter eh..
Gparted soon solves the problem, one way or another.;)

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Unless its a mac where you need a partiton tool that can either work with the EFI partition table or ingores it

Most just say Nope :mad: although the one on the debian etch installer did resize and NTFS partition for me, then i just got refit to sync the EFI table with the MBR.