I recently got express VPN in order to watch the walking dead, however I want to watch it on my xbox so I can have a bigger screen since my laptop isn’t powerfull enough to use an hdmi connection and the screen is all cracked. But I don’t know how to connect the VPN, all the tutorials I watch get super into the files and shit and idk what any of it means lol, I also don’t have an ethernet cable so I can do it with that
The consoles don’t have native VPN support. The only way is via the router or by connecting your Xbox to a computer that is connected to a VPN.
On PC, share the virtual adapter EV created, which is usually called ExpressVPN wintun device, I don’t remember the detail name. Share it over your primary ethernet or WiFi connection on your PC.
Enable sharing on your primary connection adapter may force the IP settings on the primary adapter to be overrides by the internet connection sharing feature. Just change it back to auto in the IPv4 settings of that adapter.
On Xbox, change the IPv4 settings, use the same IP and subnet mask as auto settings, but override the gateway to the IP of the PC. For DNS, any well known public DNS is fine, for example 8.8.8.8.
Windows has this weird bug that the share may fail after a reboot, turn off sharing and turn it on after reboot.
I aware of that it’s just that I don’t understand how to do it wireless
You can’t. You need a computer with two ethernet ports. Edit: Network adapters
Then why does it say you can almost everywhere I look that ot can be done wireless it’s just more complex
No need, one port is fine.
It’s limited. Once you bridge both your notebook an Xbox, your notebook can’t use the internet. You’d also need two ethernet ports (two network adapters) to perform a bridge.
It depends on the hardware you have or the one you are willing to buy. You connect the console with the pc and the pc with the internet. This can be via ethernet or WiFi, but you need 2 total in combination (for console <> pc and pc <> Internet). So it might be time to invest into an ethernet cable if you don’t have one.
Otherwise it seems you know / habe some guides already on how to set it all up.
No need to use two adapters, you can share with one Ethernet connection or WiFi, it’s called router-on-a-stick configuration.
They were wrong. You can use your laptop. No other hardware needed.
Connect laptop to VPN. Make sure internet working fine.
Enable laptop wifi Hotspot. On windows 11 it is hidden in the right side panel that pops up when you clicked on the clock or network icon, I can’t remember which one. On windows 8,8,1,10 you can swipe in to the left, from outside of the right side of the screen.
Connect Xbox to wifi Hotspot.
Edited to network adapters.
How do I connect the xbox to the Hotspot? I’ve been using a laptop
One adapter is fine, it’s called router-on-a-stick configuration.
You connect Xbox to Hotspot via Xbox settings on the Xbox console.
The laptop is the one creating Hotspot
Instead of correcting me which I appreciate. It’ll be good if you can share with him/her how to accomplish this on a notebook, Xbox, and VPN service. I’m trying to keep it simple for OP.
I tried that but it wouldn’t work, worked fine on my phone but the VPN didn’t work
I did, but not in your comment thread. You can try on your own device.
That’s strange and unfortunately I have no idea what went wrong