Networking

[Duffman]

heres my setup i have an ethernet card and a cable modem, the computer hooks up with the cable via usb, can i then run cat45 cable out of my ethernet to an xbox or is that only in from cable type

[TheFilePirater]

just run the cat5 cab le from the modem to the xbox...yah that works, just buy a router for a permenat solution

[Duffman]

i don't wanna buy a router though im cheap

[TheFilePirater]

then u dont have to buy one, u just wont have internet one ur pc at the same time...unless u buy a switch then u need another pci network card for your computer

EDIT: example of switch...
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/guys/switchconfig.JPG

[Evil Gemini]

What you could do, is connect the modem from the USB to your PC and by rights you should have another port on the modem to connect a crossover to your xbox and they can both be on the internet.

But this is a bad idea if you plan to transfer files from the xbox to the PC because most modems have a max tranfer rate of 10mb over lan and it would be slow.