Xbox live is driving me NUTS!!

Vegeta

OK so i downloaded two demos there the other day.

Phantasy star universe......tried for over an hour to connect to the server to play but didn't connect once

Splinter cell...tried for half an hour so far and no dice.

I am connected as I can download stuff but is there anything that would be blocking me playing online?????

My router or something. My 360 is wired to a router

Royale with Cheese

My xbox live is screwed up. Downloading demos takes ages now for some reason. When I start playing a game off the dvd drive the download will stop, then start again 2 minutes later, then stop after 30 seconds, then start again 2 minutes later...

I left it on when I was out once downloading a demo and it took bloody years to get to 78%, started playing a game and the stopping and starting crap happened again. Then finished playing the game and the download went back to 0%

Vegeta

I will definitely let my gold membership lapse if this sh1t continues unless of course it is my own fault cos i have a badly configured network or something

Ciaran500

Vegeta wrote:

Phantasy star universe......tried for over an hour to connect to the server to play but didn't connect once

Splinter cell...tried for half an hour so far and no dice.

I am connected as I can download stuff but is there anything that would be blocking me playing online?????

My router or something. My 360 is wired to a router

PSU is recieving a massive amount of players for a limited amount of slots, so you're just going to have to keep trying untill you get a slot.

The SC demo has something seriously wrong with it, there is the same reports of connection trouble all over the internet

Royale with Cheese wrote:

My xbox live is screwed up. Downloading demos takes ages now for some reason. When I start playing a game off the dvd drive the download will stop, then start again 2 minutes later, then stop after 30 seconds, then start again 2 minutes later...

I left it on when I was out once downloading a demo and it took bloody years to get to 78%, started playing a game and the stopping and starting crap happened again. Then finished playing the game and the download went back to 0%

Sounds like a network problem on your end TBH. I've been having no trouble recently and I haven't heard any other similar complaints on other boards.

Vegeta wrote:

I will definitely let my gold membership lapse if this sh1t continues unless of course it is my own fault cos i have a badly configured network or something

Its not Microsofts fault, the PSU servers are completley seperate and its up to ubi to ensure their demos are bug free.

Royale with Cheese

Ciaran500 wrote:

Sounds like a network problem on your end TBH. I've been having no trouble recently and I haven't heard any other similar complaints on other boards.

Why does it stop and start when I'm running games off the dvd drive if it's just a network problem? It doesn't stop and start when I'm playing demos off the hard drive.

GrumPy

I have shat better multiplayer demos than ubisoft, the SC one is a FvCKING SHAM!!!!!

I got into ONE GAME, ONE!!! And I searched easily over 50 times!

Load of me bollix.

Ciaran500

Royale with Cheese wrote:

Why does it stop and start when I'm running games off the dvd drive if it's just a network problem? It doesn't stop and start when I'm playing demos off the hard drive.

How long have you spent testing this? Was it any download in particular it was doing it for? What game where you playing at the time?

Vegeta

Ciaran500 wrote:

PSU is recieving a massive amount of players for a limited amount of slots, so you're just going to have to keep trying untill you get a slot.

The SC demo has something seriously wrong with it, there is the same reports of connection trouble all over the internet

well at least it aint my 360 or network by the soundsof it.

PGR3 also makes my blood boil as does hold 'em poker; i tried so so many times to connect to games my friend is hosting but with no success.

Yet other people in foreign countries and I have no probs.

Royale with Cheese

Ciaran500 wrote:

How long have you spent testing this? Was it any download in particular it was doing it for? What game where you playing at the time?

It does it for anything I'm downloading whenever I'm playing any game off the dvd drive. Has been doing it for a good few weeks now. Would it be a problem with the console?

Vegeta

Irish GrumPy wrote:

Load of me bollix.

beautiful, couldn't have put it better me-self

Ciaran500

Vegeta wrote:

well at least it aint my 360 or network by the soundsof it.

PGR3 also makes my blood boil as does hold 'em poker; i tried so so many times to connect to games my friend is hosting but with no success.

Yet other people in foreign countries and I have no probs.

Are your ports open in you router?

Mabye try connecting the 360 straight to the modem to rule out any router problems

It does it for anything I'm downloading whenever I'm playing any game off the dvd drive. Has been doing it for a good few weeks now. Would it be a problem with the console?

Sounds like it could be, are your ports open?

JeanClaude

It's a disaster, downloaded two Demos(Fifa 07 and Smackdown v Raw 07) last week, took about 3- 3 and a half hours each. Is it Eircom's fault, with their fast (sarc) download speeds...lol

Julez

Vegeta wrote:

well at least it aint my 360 or network by the soundsof it.

PGR3 also makes my blood boil as does hold 'em poker; i tried so so many times to connect to games my friend is hosting but with no success.

Yet other people in foreign countries and I have no probs.

Go to "test network connection" then see what it says beside "NAT", if it says OPEN its all good if not, u need to open ports or something!

Clank

Vegeta wrote:

well at least it aint my 360 or network by the soundsof it.

PGR3 also makes my blood boil as does hold 'em poker; i tried so so many times to connect to games my friend is hosting but with no success.

Yet other people in foreign countries and I have no probs.

Sounds to me like your NAT is set to strict, I had the same problem, as PGR3 when a NAT is open is flawless.

Vegeta

Clank wrote:

Sounds to me like your NAT is set to strict, I had the same problem, as PGR3 when a NAT is open is flawless.

how would one set a NAT to open.

I will google it

Ciaran500

Vegeta wrote:

how would one set a NAT to open.

I will google it

http://www.portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/XboxLive360/XboxLive360index.htm

Select your router there (or one close to it) and just follow instructions.

If its not there just post what router you have and someone will be able to help.

Vegeta

Ciaran500 wrote:

http://www.portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/XboxLive360/XboxLive360index.htm

Select your router there (or one close to it) and just follow instructions.

If its not there just post what router you have and someone will be able to help.

thanks man i will give that a shot tonight when i get home from work and i'll let you know how i get on

robinph

Vegeta wrote:

thanks man i will give that a shot tonight when i get home from work and i'll let you know how i get on

I wouldn't bother trying it tonight as Live is offline for all of today for some upgrades.

Vegeta

robinph wrote:

I wouldn't bother trying it tonight as Live is offline for all of today for some upgrades.

ahhhh cool thanks for the reminder, I saw the post here about it but just slipped my mind

Have the come out and said why they were taking it offline for the day. They said they'd release more knews closer to the day

Ciaran500

Vegeta wrote:

ahhhh cool thanks for the reminder, I saw the post here about it but just slipped my mind

Have the come out and said why they were taking it offline for the day. They said they'd release more knews closer to the day

Haven't said yet, looks like it will be features for Xbox.com and not dashboard updates