How to Connect to Xbox Live Through Laptop

First launched in 2002, Xbox Live is one of the favorite multiplayer online gaming portals in the world. It is the platform created by Microsoft for its Xbox gaming console. It's the only platform that charges a fee to play online. Now it is known as 'Games for Windows-Live' as the service has been made available for Windows phones, computers, as well as other hand held devices. The procedure for connecting your laptop with a Xbox is extremely simple, as you will discover in the following lines.

The amount of fun you can have playing online multiplayer Xbox 360 games with your friends is simply addictive. The power of the Internet and gaming are combined together in the form of the Xbox Live, which is one of the best online gaming services ever made available.

Figuring out how to connect to Xbox Live is no rocket science, and pretty straightforward to figure out. If you do not have a wireless adapter supplied by Microsoft for this purpose, you can always use your laptop's wireless connection to get hooked to Xbox Live.

Connecting Your Xbox Live to a Laptop

First and foremost, you will need a wireless Internet connection for your laptop. Along with an Internet connection, what you will need is an ethernet cable that you can connect with your laptop computer and your Xbox device. That is the only way of going about it.

What you are essentially going to do is, create a local network of your Xbox and your laptop and share your wireless connection over it. This will enable you to access Xbox Live through your laptop's wireless connection. Let us begin with the procedure.

Firstly, connect the Xbox 360 device with the laptop using an ethernet cable. This will establish your local area network. Turn on your laptop and switch on your wireless router or gateway to connect to the Internet. Then go into network settings on your laptop. See to it that your wireless Internet connection is shared with the local area network you have created, consisting of the laptop and Xbox.

Till this point your Xbox should be switched off. Once the wireless Internet connection is on, switch on the Xbox and access Xbox Live directly. Before doing that, check whether Internet connection has been established. If you have followed all the steps correctly, you will be connected with Xbox Live in no time.

It saves you the cost of getting hold of a wireless adapter for the device. Your laptop's inbuilt wireless adapter acts as the Xbox wireless adapter. Make sure that you follow all the instruction properly before going ahead with the installation procedure. Wish you a phenomenal Xbox Live gaming experience in the future!