I want to use my lap top while my boyfriend is connected to XBox Live

I have read several entries here, but none of them seem to adapt to my situation. I don't mean to connect to XBox via the laptop, I can't use both at the same time. We have the best internet available, we have a router, and yet somehow, we are still unable to use our internet at the same time. I read things about how you need to change the IP address (or something?) on the router, if it allows both to work at the same time, but I'm totally clueless when it comes to routers. The laptop runs on XP. If anyone has ANY suggestions, I'm more than willing to give them a try!
Thank you.

Still, I don't think she wants to share the connection.

@ptaseller it's really hard to walk someone through changing their settings of router because all routers are different. What I can do, is try to offer good suggestions. Your boyfriend knows nothing about routers or networks? If so, you must inform him manually set its IP address on his XBox to something that will be different from yours.

If it is not, then you will need to do some work. You will have to

-) First make you sure the XBox is off and do not use the internet and that your computer has access to the internet
-) are going to start-> run-> Type "cmd" without the quotes and press enter
-) type "ipconfig" (without the quotes again) and remember or note the number next to the default gateway. This is the address you put in the address bar of your browser to access your router. So go ahead and load up your browser and type in these figures as they appear and press ENTER.
(-) If you must enter a password and you do not know and that you did not change it then visit this site: http://www.routerpasswords.com/ I hope to find a. For example, the default connection to my router was "admin" and the password I have left empty for Linksys.
-) What you want to look for is the DHCP SERVER. You want to make sure that is enabled. This gives your computer and his XBox their own local IP address because it sounds like them trying to share the same local IP address and it's not good, because only one device may be using a local IP address.
(-) If it does not, then I would try and force his XBox to manually use a local IP address. Once again, if he does not know how to do this then try and follow these steps

+) Are going to start-> Control Panel-> network-> double click the internet connection you are using (connection to the Local network or network connection Wireless in most cases)
+) Click on the support tab and click on details and leave it on the screen
+) Turn on the XBox and go to every time that you change the connection settings and tell him that you want to manually configure network settings and for each witness, you will need to fill in, refer to the window you left open on your computer to fill. HOWEVER, the only thing that will change is the IP address on the XBox. The IP address that you see in the window of your computer will be something like 192.168.1.100. It's probably not the same thing, but in which it has four digits in all less nearby.
+) I want to do you is to copy whatever your computer has the IP address of the XBox, BUT NOT THE LAST NUMBER. So in this example, do not copy on the 100. Instead, whatever that last number, add 5 more to him and put this number in the XBox.
+) So if your computer you 192.168.1.100, your XBox will 192.168.1.105
+) Save your changes in the XBox and try and connect to the internet.

I hope this works.

-Kyle

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