Am i correct in assuming you wish to play games online and not just use the x box to play games locally ie just against people in your home?

Hmmm...it doesn't sound as simple as i thought it might be.

I found some infoclick here

If you have spare power sockets around the room, you could also use home plugs

The home plugs are very simple but effective, but obviously there is a cost involved. They are easily available on Amazon and many other outlets. The one thing I would say if you choose that route is that they come in varying speeds, 85Mbps, 200Mbps and I think 500Mbps. I have some I bought from Ebuyer and they are only the 85Mbps ones but they worked perfectly well with Xbox live. I personally have never played online, but I set my son's Xbox up with the home plug connection to my router and he never had any issue with connection or performance speed, so I'm not entirely sure there is any great need to go for the higher speed and slightly higher cost, but obviously, if budget is fine then I would think it's no harm to go for the fastest ones to suit your budget, but not essential.

If you just want to play games yourself, then I would strongly advise using a TV rather than your laptop. The games are much better on the big screen, especially if you have an HD TV, and I think all these game consoles are primarily aimed at TV play. It's a matter of a minute or so connecting it up to the TV.