XBOX LIVE connection speed
 

Hey everyone, I just switched over to cable connect for my xbox. Now when I test my connection speed on my computer it says about 1.5mb down and 767 upload. So I'm thinking wow that's pretty sweet to host games on xbox. *DING* WRONG!

Oddly when I checked my xbox connection

(dashboard--->network setting--->connect--->let it check your connection then hit the Y button you get a special menu which tells you your latency, packets lost and Download/Upload.)

My xbox numbers are as followed:

UL: 165kb
DL: 9765kb
L: 114ms
P: 20/20

What concerns me is that my upload is drastically lower that it should be. It's always as if my xbox is a huge bottle neck.

My question is what is causing this big difference in upload?

How's your X-Box connected? Ethernet cable or wireless connection?

It's an Ethernet cable.

I have the toshiba PCX2600 cable modem connected directly into my xbox.

Pay no mind to the rating on the xbox it's never right. Mine is way off too you will be licky to find someone who had the xbox got the speed right.

Well the PCX2600 just sucks! I switched over to the PCX2200 and it works great! Hosting 16!

So you switched from a PCX2600 to a PCX2600 and it works great? So you had a defective one or is this a typo?

oops

I switched to the PCX2200. Sorry about that.

I too believe the speeds my XBOX reads to be WAY off. My numbers are always really low and I've never had a problem that I can see and I've never been told I'm lagging. I believe that if you test you speed with your computer and it is good that way....then you should have no problems on LIVE.

Re: XBOX LIVE connection speed
 

From what I've read, it's best to have your latency rating under 100 ms. I had a wired connection and was getting 100-110ms, but when I switched to a wireless connection I'm now getting 91-97ms.

Maybe you have a lot of interference with your cable, or that you are using too long of a cable?

Jeremy

Wow, so wireless was better?

For me, yes. It might have something to do with the ethernet cable I was using. It was a 25 foot cable that I would keep coiled up when not using. So it might have been something to do with the length, or maybe interference or a problem with coiling up the cable.

I now have the D-Link DWL-810+ wireless adapter and the Microsoft Wireless Basestation MN-500 router. Both are 802.11b. I'm in a small apartment but the two are in separate rooms, and the connection is great.

Jeremy

25 feet should not be a problem for Ethernet. You may have had another issue with the cable.