Comments on: Can't chat and play on Xbox Live – How many got this fixed?

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:48:46 +0000

Sure thing! Hope something in there helped you.

Cheers!

Carol

By: Davo058

Davo058 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:43:50 +0000

Hey

Thanks for actually answering the issue of chat issues with friends, so hard to find actual solutions on the internet

again cheers

By: keely

keely — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:01:03 +0000

i have kinda the same problem.i havn’t tried the Possible solutions yet.gonna do that right now,but my problem is that i can join a party with whoever in the world except for one friend.that i didn”t have this problem with before.it just started a month ago.
so i’m gonna try out a few of the solutions and get back to you guy’s.
but please if you know a way to fix this problem directly, please help me.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:36:48 +0000

This article was posted November 7th 2008. The punch line of this is that it’s now june 2009 and yet somehow this problem persists. When I contact microsoft customer support by email they ask me to phone them instead and when I phone them, they can’t fix it, so I think I will quit wasting my time.

Mine can work perfectly well for a number of days, sometimes as much as a week with only occasional lag spikes (which I blame on my ISP, not the xbox or live service) but then, arbitrarily, one day it will refuse to let me start or join private chats or parties with specific individuals. I can do these things with any other person sometimes, just not the people I want to. At the same time as this is happening, I can play games by myself, with no lag or any issues I can play with utter strangers.

When I try to connect to my friend’s party, it tells me it could not connect. It tells me it may be a problem with my NAT, and then it tells me that my NAT settings are OPEN, the right kind. All in the same sentence. I would like to thank the developers of halo 3, and microsoft for deeming it necessary to tell me that regardless of how correct my settings are, my paid-for service is still broken, and then not offer any kind of alternative solutions.

Microsoft must be pretending it isn’t happening at all.
Lalala paying customers, we can’t hear you!

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:35:03 +0000

Al and Ervan, i think you guys are losing packs on the network when using your wireless routers.
I suggest keeping it on the cable for more stability.

To avoid the mess, get 2 powerline ethernet adapters.
Hook one into your modem/ hub, and the other one into a power socket near your 360.
Plug the Internet cable from you 360 into the powerline, and you’re set to go.

Good luck!

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:15:39 +0000

i cant play or invite my friend to private chat but when i unplugged my wireles and connected my xbox straight to the modem it worked :S but if i plug it into the router it doesnt work what can i do so that i can use my wireless adapter.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:50:39 +0000

I Have a really crazy situation, I have a WRT54G2 wireless router it is giving me an ip of 192.168.0.x and I can connect to X-box live play unknown people and send messages to friends but Iam unable to join a party private chat or game with my friends, but when I connect directly to my Verizon dsl modem I get an IP of 192.168.1.x and I can connect to live and do everything with friends, does anyone have a solution to fix this because it seems impossibility.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:27:44 +0000

Mike, i didn’t think of this one.
Thanks for sharing.

If a gamer has only one IP to use (depending on the ISP) then it can lead to IP conflicts between the 360 and the computer.

The problem is, when i had it, i could put up to 4 pc’s or 360′s on my network and use them all at the same time, so the cause was different.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:33:24 +0000

Sometimes this problem occurs if you have a PC switched on or in sleep mode on the same network while you are playing on your 360. When my PC is off I have no problem with the NAT setting or joining games.

By: prescott

prescott — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:40:54 +0000

since friday i was play my xbox and i keep getin disconnected from live.. i do test connection but it passes everything. but i still cant play games online cuz every time i lof on in 3 to 5 min times i get disconnected.. and 1 no what d problem may be