connecting to xbox live using satellite internet

tribesman44

i was wondering if anyone here can connect to xbox live using satellite internet. i live in galway way out of the city. i have internet called eirewire which is satellite. i tried to connect wireless via my laptop but it still wont work. my brother lives in america and he says xbox realeased a statement saying they are blocking satellite internet users from using xbox live because they tend to be slower than cable or DSL and are slowing down gameplay with others. can anyone tell me of this is true? if anyone can get on xbox live with satellite let me know how you did it. cheers

Lab_Mouse

Sorry I dont know anyone with sat broadband but I believe the ping is horrific,and even if you could connect,it would be unplayable.

Also if Micro$oft are blocking that type of connection there is f all you can do about it

Not much help I know,sorry:o

To find out your ping and upload speeds etc go to http://www.speedtest.net/

tribesman44

http://www.speedtest.net/result/615345323.png

they are my results. sucks because we had no broadband in the area. BT and eircom were around the corner but not putting in our area. then finally airwire became available. we got it about 6 months ago and now found out eircom is putting in our area now. FML....and we did a 1 year contract. all this with forza 3 and MW2 out...fuuuuuuuuuuu

GAAman

tribesman44 wrote: »

http://www.speedtest.net/result/615345323.png

they are my results. sucks because we had no broadband in the area. BT and eircom were around the corner but not putting in our area. then finally airwire became available. we got it about 6 months ago and now found out eircom is putting in our area now. FML....and we did a 1 year contract. all this with forza 3 and MW2 out...fuuuuuuuuuuu

Thats actually a really good ping there and the upload speed is quite good, are you on a 1meg package?

tribesman44

GAAman wrote: »

Thats actually a really good ping there and the upload speed is quite good, are you on a 1meg package?

we are actually on a 2mb package. they only have 1 and 2...looking to get faster in the future they say

ondafly

with that speed you should be fine. for instance, I had 2 360s running off BT 3mb package, which only has 300K or so upload, and both were playing online in Forza 3 with 6 other players. No lag at all. No voicechat either though (so that might have helped). I was amazed myself to see it working !

tribesman44

ondafly wrote: »

with that speed you should be fine. for instance, I had 2 360s running off BT 3mb package, which only has 300K or so upload, and both were playing online in Forza 3 with 6 other players. No lag at all. No voicechat either though (so that might have helped). I was amazed myself to see it working !

ok, speed is fine. but what about the fact that its satellite? i tried wirelessly connecting via my laptop and it wont work. someone said i might need a router and then i read microsoft is blocking people who use satellite internet. pain in the a$$!!!!!!

Lab_Mouse

Christ thats harsh.Nothing wrong with those speeds.(that ping is about as low as you'll get).

Wonder how they know its a sat connection?

Edit:does the sat connection give you firewall and NAT settings?If it does they could be stopping the access

tribesman44

Lab_Mouse wrote: »

Christ thats harsh.Nothing wrong with those speeds.(that ping is about as low as you'll get).

Wonder how they know its a sat connection?

Edit:does the sat connection give you firewall and NAT settings?If it does they could be stopping the access

not sure about the firewall of NAT settings. ill have to check it out. got so frustrated trying to get the wireless connection to work. havent looked at it since

event

that cant be satellite, it must be wireless

alternatively, run a ping and see what the response times are there, to make sure speedtest isnt acting up

tribesman44

event wrote: »

that cant be satellite, it must be wireless

alternatively, run a ping and see what the response times are there, to make sure speedtest isnt acting up

man, im an idiot. i listened to my wife when she told me we had satellite. its wireless. this is what we have. http://www.airwire.ie/index.php/home

well this is good news...it must be a firewall issue.

tribesman44

just tested again. 9pm on a sunday night is usually the slowest time with everyone off work and school.

zero19

Ah that'd get you going fine on XBL i reckon

event

tribesman44 wrote: »

man, im an idiot. i listened to my wife when she told me we had satellite. its wireless. this is what we have. http://www.airwire.ie/index.php/home

well this is good news...it must be a firewall issue.

ah you're laughing, that'd be great

ping under 20ms, that'll be perfect

tribesman44

event wrote: »

ah you're laughing, that'd be great

ping under 20ms, that'll be perfect

still cant get connected to XBL. was on to airwire support and a technician is supposed to be calling back later for a walk through. has something to do with the IP address. the funny part is i have a bachelors degree in information systems. college FTL!

manufan16

you can export your wireless settings from your pc/laptop to a usb stick and then plug it into the xbox. it automatically detects everything and sets you up for xbox live.
I think I got the steps from the xbox site

corcaigh07

your upload and ping are far better than mine...