Playing with my friends... 360

Kamikaze · 05-18-2007, 08:30 PM

I've been searching for an answer to this problem for a long time, and no one has been able to help me. I'm hoping I can get some assistance on this forum. Honestly, I'm not even sure if it is an Xbox 360 problem at all, I think it's just a router/networking problem, but the problem comes from when I play on the 360.

I play with a few friends online, we all live near each other and have the same ISP and very similar routers. I set up all the individual routers to what I thought was the correct way to do it.

I set them all up, so I probably screwed something up, but everything is done that should be done. DMZ is setup, the right ports are forwarded, etc.

Here is the problem, and it is best explained through example...

When all four of us play Gears of War,

I can host a match and have other people join it, but they can't see it or join it through the Xbox Live Friends List.
All four of us can join a game that someone else is hosting.
If any of them host, I can't see it or join it.

On Rainbow Six Vegas,

Not only does the above problems apply, but even when we join someone else's game we can't talk to each other (we could talk playing Gears of War).

The problem here is that I don't know what the problem is. I'm not a networking expert, all I know is what I've learned from experience with my networks at home. And the few networking experts I know (from work) or can contact (my ISP tech support sort of stuff) don't seem to know what I'm talking about. The only way I'm going to get help on this is from a gamer that has network skills.

05-18-2007, 08:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Kamikaze Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP	Playing with my friends... 360 I've been searching for an answer to this problem for a long time, and no one has been able to help me. I'm hoping I can get some assistance on this forum. Honestly, I'm not even sure if it is an Xbox 360 problem at all, I think it's just a router/networking problem, but the problem comes from when I play on the 360. I play with a few friends online, we all live near each other and have the same ISP and very similar routers. I set up all the individual routers to what I thought was the correct way to do it. I set them all up, so I probably screwed something up, but everything is done that should be done. DMZ is setup, the right ports are forwarded, etc. Here is the problem, and it is best explained through example... When all four of us play Gears of War, I can host a match and have other people join it, but they can't see it or join it through the Xbox Live Friends List. All four of us can join a game that someone else is hosting. If any of them host, I can't see it or join it. On Rainbow Six Vegas, Not only does the above problems apply, but even when we join someone else's game we can't talk to each other (we could talk playing Gears of War). The problem here is that I don't know what the problem is. I'm not a networking expert, all I know is what I've learned from experience with my networks at home. And the few networking experts I know (from work) or can contact (my ISP tech support sort of stuff) don't seem to know what I'm talking about. The only way I'm going to get help on this is from a gamer that has network skills.