I have my xbox hooked up to my DSL through a router. I'm able to play games and they work fine until a few minutes in, when i get a "lost connection" note. THe games i've been dumped at have been Mechassault, clone wars and ghost recon. my DSL speed is 384-1.5 down and 128 up (i think).

Any way to make Live work better by forwarding ports or anything?

Go to xbox-scene.com and look in the Xbox Live thread. You should find plenty of help in there.

When I first put my PS2 online, I had the same problem. I went to the routers website, got new firmware, and that fixed it.

Is your ISP XBOX LIVE compatible?

I've been having the same problem w/ my PS2.
Just got the network adapter.
I'm hooked up through a small home network on a 4-port router.

Guess I'll look into finding a firmware update or something.

Ginwen, what's this routers website you're referring to please?

Microsoft is intentionally sending a spurious ICMP packet to your router when it runs XBox Live Network — as a warning about a problem that might happen later. This (correctly) causes the router to terminate the session. The ICMP packet was Microsoft's attempt to solve another problem that routers from various companies were having with their service and ICMP. Instead, it caused a different problem.

Both problems may be fixed in the future, in the meantime, you can try these steps to get routers that use filter rules to connect to XBox Live Network.

Note that blocking ICMP — as recommended — in limited situations may cause your router to intermittently disconnect from the Internet. Also note that if you are already using filters, you'll need to add the new filters so that the existing ones continue working properly.

Upgrade to the latest router firmware.
Open ports 88 and 3074.

Now I've never had this problem, but here is the possible problem and solution.

What type of router do you have? Go to the manufactures website and somewhere you should be alble to download the latest firmware if applicable.

I tried bypassing my router and hooked directly to my DSL modem and every thing was fine. So i'll just manually hook up the line before i use it, i already reset my xbox configuration to see the dsl modem and not the router.
recap: my problem occur while hooked to a 5 port Gateway brand router that was hooked to a Apple Airport Basestation that was hooked to a DSL modem.

update and return problem:

I got a Linksys wireless game device (the B model since my airport is b and not g). When ever i play Mechassault i get disconnected and the game freezes up til i turn off then back on the xbox. Some times Unreal T. is picky and wont let me join games but Ghost Recon is fine, i can play for a long time and not see any problem. Whats the deal here? Do forwarding ports 88 and 3074 to the xbox make a difference?

Wow.. misleading thread title.

I get dumped when I use my router with Rainbow Six. It's a Dell Truemobile piece of junk that came with my laptop. I'm too lazy to update my firmware so I just plug my Xbox network line directly into my modem.

Are you running the latest firmware for everything? Check the linksys site and see if there is new firmware for the access point, and check the web for new firmware for the airport, etc. Update that and see if anything changes.


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http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/conne...-and-Games.htm


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Getting Routers and Games to Play Nice
The vast majority of you in Xbox Live land are currently enjoying a killer online experience. And yet, it could be even better. So, because "gamers care about gamers" and we'd like to see everyone get hooked up right so that Xbox Live attains the transcendent status it so richly deserves, we dug in to find out exactly what was going on.


You may have seen stuff like a random person dropped from a game, a phantom bike left at the starting line, or people not being able to see or talk to everyone in a lobby—call it random funkiness in games. When we asked some of our best Xbox Live gamer testers to dig into the funkiness game by game, we discovered a bunch of things related to different routers having issues with each other.

If you want to check out your router, consult our Router List. This is the latest and greatest list of compatible routers, workarounds, and routers that just don't work with Xbox Live.

To help diagnose what's going on for each game, we started by asking, "Can I get in the game if there is an issue related to a router?" The short answer is yes and no. It's different from one game to the next. Check out the answers for your favorite Xbox Live games.

Ghost Recon
Q: Does this game allow me to play with other folks on Xbox Live when someone in the game has router issues?

A: Yes. But because of the way Ghost Recon handles network traffic, it will be a little more difficult to tell who has the router with issues, you or someone else in the game. Some things to look for:

You receive an invite from a Friend, and when you try to join you receive all of the following messages:


"Network conditions may affect this game. Do you wish to join this game?"
"Connection to session terminated."
"The session you wish to join is no longer available."
If this happens, you are very likely the one with the router issue.

You receive an invite from a Friend, and when you try to join you receive the following message:


"Connection to session terminated."
If this happens to you consistently when trying to connect to the same Friend, your friend is most likely the one with the router issue.

One thing to keep in mind: Currently Ghost Recon is the only Xbox Live title that requires you to hit the white button to talk, like talking to your platoon over a walkie-talkie. Because of the way Ghost Recon is designed to interact with Xbox Live, it's a good bet that voice problems are related to using (or not using) the white button.

MechAssault
Q: Does this game allow me to play with other folks on Xbox Live when someone in the game has router issues?

A: No. You will most likely not get all the way into a game. But if you are able to connect to the host, you will get into a lobby right before the game. Once the game starts, you will see people who magically disappear because they are not able to connect with others in the game.

Other things to watch out for in MechAssault:

When using Xbox Live Matchmaking or Friends list, you get a message that says, "No response from host." It could be that the host is no longer available or there's a router situation. Look for a consistent pattern.
When you enter the lobby, you do not see and can't talk to all of the players.
Here's a tip. When using OptiMatch, MechAssault will look for sessions that match up best with your connection. So wait a bit, let OptiMatch weed out the bad connections, and then jump in. That takes care of your connection with the host and whoever was in the lobby at the time. Once you're in the lobby, make sure you can talk to and see everyone. If everyone can see and talk to each other, you're golden.

I had the same problems and once I opened the ports I almost never get disconnected anymore.

I opened the ports. i'll see if it makes a difference next time i have a chance. I couldnt find any firmware updates for the linksys game thing. My airport basestation has the newest firmware i could find for it already.