View Full Version : Why couldn't I "Connect to Xbox LIVE"?
Javery
01-04-2008, 10:00 AM
I'm STILL having problems. It says I can't connect but then it will log me in and tell me how many friends are online but when I try loading up a game (Rock Band) the entire console freezes. It only works when I specifically don't try and sign in to Live. Also, just logging in locally is very slow - it takes forever for my wallpaper and blades to load up. I just get the little icon with the spinning dots. It's really really frustrating.
I have only been having problems with Messenger at this point. Doesn't want to sign itself in, and then tells me my password is no longer correct (when it is still correct).
Major Nelson said we'd be getting an XBLA game out of this. It just better not be Contra/Robotron/Joust/Frogger. (And I still think I would rather just have the days credited.)
ITDEFX
01-04-2008, 08:37 PM
So I fired up my 360 today and was greeted by the "I" loading and loading and loading. I was so hypnotic....so relaxing........................ made me feel good.
0.o
Liquid 2
01-04-2008, 10:48 PM
Has anyone been able to recover their GTs lately? It's not working for me, and I've been trying for a few hours.
Any ideas?
eswat
01-04-2008, 11:10 PM
Very shitty night to be playing CoD 4 in a party. Every 5 minutes the party drops.
fusionstyle
01-04-2008, 11:29 PM
I'm having problems like most of you guys. Live goes on when I boot up the 360, but when I start playing a game, it disconnects and impossible to reconnect then. It's frustrating, but I hope the XBLA game we're getting out of this will be worth the downtime.
A Happy Panda
01-04-2008, 11:33 PM
Lamesauce.
It was working fine for me last night when Major Nelson posted that everything should be back. Now I can't connect to a game in COD4. Blasted.
dmaul1114
01-05-2008, 12:31 AM
It was semi ok for me early. Got a few games in, had a couple disconnects in the lobby. But then couldnt' get a game at all.
Going to try again in a few.
Apossum
01-05-2008, 12:48 AM
shit's busted. can't recover my GT. guess I'll play some Galaxy instead.
Unickuta
01-05-2008, 07:15 PM
I just need to vent...right before the FALL update and right after, we all experienced a few LIVE/COD4 problems. Then right before Xmas and right after, through till today, we're still been having LIVE/COD4 problems. Seems like in the morning and late at night it's possible to get some games in, but god f-ing forbid you get some games in 3-10pm (obviously cause of a sh1t load of people on). Ridiculous, I've never really complained much bout LIVE, lucky to have it, but my good god this is getting out of hand. It's almost as if Gold members are getting shafted because ump-teen 1000's of people got xbox 360's w/LIVE and COD4 for Christmas. Microsoft really needs to do something about this in a faster manner then they are handling this right now. O-K, feel better now :]
Amen.
shinryuu
01-05-2008, 07:25 PM
Feels like its fixed, at least the marketplace. I was starting up TF2, but it froze on one of the blades so I went back to the dashboard and the marketplace started to work and the first three blades. Downloaded some Rock Band DLC, and it seems to work alright now. =d
lordwow
01-05-2008, 07:30 PM
"Uh, we're fine, everything's fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
defmonkey05
01-05-2008, 07:41 PM
"Luke, We're gonna have company!!"
Yea, this connecting bs better be solved soon... Its getting on muh nerves.
dmaul1114
01-05-2008, 08:50 PM
Seems to at least be getting better.
Turned it on around 6 pm EST and the blades loaded up. Played CoD4 until 7:30 or so. Had a few time outs and connection messages in the lobby, but was able to get right into a new lobby/match each time.
So still having some issues, but less than previous nights. And given that it's a saturday, that's a good sign since that should be very high load evening.
BREVITY
01-05-2008, 08:58 PM
Not much better for me. I have played off and on for the last few days and I cant believe between playing COD4 and H3 how bad it is. Finding a match takes forever and we are getting dropped a lot. Messing with your friends list can be a real task. I have friend requests that NEVER go away after accepting them. Just retarded stuff. I hope they are not setting tight thinking the problem has been handled or that it will get better on its own.
To some degree I bet they think the problem will be helped by people starting back to work and school Monday but what a piece of @#it Live has been for the past week or more.
v1et r1ce
01-05-2008, 10:45 PM
Wow Halo 3 was kinda buggy. Played Team Doubles and lost a level because the other team quit before it started...then, we tried another one and I gained TWO levels after the other team quit or was disconnected before it started..Good times with Live.
jfuze
01-05-2008, 11:45 PM
Was the live outage this bad?
Havent touched my 360 in awhile. :c\
dmaul1114
01-06-2008, 01:24 AM
Jinxed myself.
Definitely not better. Got in 3 laggy CoD4 matches, then couldn't get in any. :bomb:
Monsta Mack
01-06-2008, 01:51 PM
I found CoD4 was having problems while other games were not. Halo 3 I did not test though.
Me and my friend played Rainbow Six Vegas for several hours while COD4 was having problems.
The game might be at a slower pace but It's a classic, and I plan on picking up the sequel by April.
torifile
01-06-2008, 03:55 PM
"Up and running" my ass. CoD4 is still having problems. I got booted out of a couple game lobbies, had a ton of problems with connections dropping and couldn't check stats.
GizmoGC
01-06-2008, 04:16 PM
Lost Planet was playable last night for the first time in days. Finally.
mtxbass1
01-06-2008, 04:25 PM
Half of my arcade games have disappeared. WTF.
I had to go to redownload Frogger, which it says was somewhere on my Xbox, only to get a note that an update was available. Try to grab the update and I get an XBL error.
Awesome.
mykevermin
01-06-2008, 04:39 PM
Half of my arcade games have disappeared. WTF.
Huh? From your HDD?
mtxbass1
01-06-2008, 04:40 PM
Huh? From your HDD?
Not showing up in the Games Library, however when I go to redownload them, I have the choice to "play now".
I still can't play Frogger.
mykevermin
01-06-2008, 06:02 PM
I haven't gone through all of my XBLA games, but Double Dragon appears as if I own it (which I do - or perhaps it is better to say "I paid for it"). When I start a game, though, it asks me if I want to purchase the full game, and it stops after mission 1.
Not a big deal to me as long as it's resolved eventually. In the meantime, you can bet your ass I won't be buying any XBLA games until I can be assured they'll work irrespective of XBL outages or me having to switch consoles.
lilboo
01-06-2008, 06:05 PM
My blades are taking quite a while to load. I haven't really played anything over live, except for Marble Blast Ultra lately. That actually went well.
These blades, however, :bomb:
mtxbass1
01-06-2008, 08:14 PM
...and... COD4 is having major problems ATM. I try to find a game, get put in, then all the sudden, I just start the game. No lobby at all. Suddenly the player jerks around, I get the network connection symbol, and it times out.
torifile
01-06-2008, 08:18 PM
...and... COD4 is having major problems ATM. I try to find a game, get put in, then all the sudden, I just start the game. No lobby at all. Suddenly the player jerks around, I get the network connection symbol, and it times out.
And, of course, the Xbox.com status update is "up and running". What bullshit. Even if I wanted to check the status so I don't waste my time trying to get online, it would misinform me. Ridiculous.
Ikohn4ever
01-06-2008, 08:25 PM
my COD4 has been acting like ass still, i have a lot less trouble at late night though. Really starting to piss me the fUck off.
mtxbass1
01-06-2008, 08:26 PM
And, of course, the Xbox.com status update is "up and running". What bullshit. Even if I wanted to check the status so I don't waste my time trying to get online, it would misinform me. Ridiculous.
Seems to be across the board. I can't find a planet on Beautiful Katamari when I see 5 out there to join.
i can't even get in to my xbox profile so i can play cod4 single player.
wtf microsoft? i don't play my xbox in over a month, enjoying ps3 goodness and this is what i come back to? i feel like selling my 360 more then ever.
RudyPants
01-06-2008, 09:53 PM
Sigh ... miserable experience playing COD just now. Couldn't even get through one match without network interuptions.
It's frustrating because Xbox Live is so incorporated into all games (even single player) that a lot of games are affected.
I figured I'd try to play a little Forza 2 career and when it went to upload my times it took nearly two minutes. Talk about turning a positive (Xbox Live integration) into a negative!
Trakan
01-06-2008, 10:02 PM
Sigh ... miserable experience playing COD just now. Couldn't even get through one match without network interuptions.
It's frustrating because Xbox Live is so incorporated into all games (even single player) that a lot of games are affected.
I figured I'd try to play a little Forza 2 career and when it went to upload my times it took nearly two minutes. Talk about turning a positive (Xbox Live integration) into a negative!
Just unplug the ethernet cable and play offline.
Sofa King Kool
01-06-2008, 10:06 PM
I haven't been able to get into a game all day. I've been patient up until this point, but now I'm starting to get pissed off. This needs to be resolved now.
kevlar51
01-06-2008, 10:56 PM
I haven't gone through all of my XBLA games, but Double Dragon appears as if I own it (which I do - or perhaps it is better to say "I paid for it"). When I start a game, though, it asks me if I want to purchase the full game, and it stops after mission 1.
Not a big deal to me as long as it's resolved eventually. In the meantime, you can bet your ass I won't be buying any XBLA games until I can be assured they'll work irrespective of XBL outages or me having to switch consoles.
Keep tabs on that... I've been having the same issue with Streets of Rage 2 for about a month now. I'll wait until this Live situation is remedied before I call back up and follow up on what the status is with my game.
torifile
01-06-2008, 11:07 PM
If the PS3 online didn't suck so much, I'd consider getting a 40 gigger. Before I sold my PS3 back in Oct. PSN sucked. Is it any better now?
NidoGod
01-06-2008, 11:14 PM
Xbox Live is still extremely slow and matchmaking doesn't work on Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4. Its a real bummer.
hec204
01-07-2008, 01:16 AM
Is it just me or has everyones xbox been freezing in the middle of the dashboard when you want to view your friends or something, it froze so bad today that I had to unplug the back to turn it off the button didn't respond
torifile
01-07-2008, 01:18 AM
Is it just me or has everyones xbox been freezing in the middle of the dashboard when you want to view your friends or something, it froze so bad today that I had to unplug the back to turn it off the button didn't respond
I had that happen yesterday. I waited a few minutes and it unfroze. Give it some time and see if that fixes it.
mykevermin
01-07-2008, 01:22 AM
If the PS3 online didn't suck so much, I'd consider getting a 40 gigger. Before I sold my PS3 back in Oct. PSN sucked. Is it any better now?
I enjoyed lotsa CoD4 online this weekend. How about you?
Keep tabs on that... I've been having the same issue with Streets of Rage 2 for about a month now. I'll wait until this Live situation is remedied before I call back up and follow up on what the status is with my game.
So yours started before XBL began acting up? Hmm. Well, not that I wish to spread misery, but as long as I'm not the only one with this problem, there's a slim chance MS may act on it. Best case scenario for me: the free game they offer as an apology for this? Double Dragon. ;)
kevlar51
01-07-2008, 09:05 AM
So yours started before XBL began acting up? Hmm. Well, not that I wish to spread misery, but as long as I'm not the only one with this problem, there's a slim chance MS may act on it. Best case scenario for me: the free game they offer as an apology for this? Double Dragon. ;)
Yeah, well before it started acting up. If it's like my problem, you'll still be up the creek without a paddle if Double Dragon's free. Marketplace says I've paid for and downloaded Streets of Rage 2. But when I play it, it says it's a trial. Even if I delete it and redownload it, I get the same results. So in other words, it's currently impossible for me to play Streets of Rage 2 on my console. I'm not too terribly upset since it's not a game I play often and I now subscribe to gametap, which has it on there, but I DID pay $5 for the game and I'd like it to work.
dmaul1114
01-07-2008, 01:46 PM
I enjoyed lotsa CoD4 online this weekend. How about you?
I tried, but was only able to get in a couple of hours as XBL was being a bitch most of the times I tried.
I'm pondering just starting Mass Effect and not bothering with any more CoD4 until I finish that in hopes that MS will get off their assess and have live fixed by then.
doubledown
01-07-2008, 02:08 PM
Is it just me or has everyones xbox been freezing in the middle of the dashboard when you want to view your friends or something, it froze so bad today that I had to unplug the back to turn it off the button didn't respond
Mine has froze 3-4 times already...I had to shut it down...the power button worked , no unplugging for me. Garbage I say!
GizmoGC
01-07-2008, 03:12 PM
Lost Planet is running fine now. Is it just a few games now that are having issues?
dmaul1114
01-07-2008, 03:23 PM
Lost Planet is running fine now. Is it just a few games now that are having issues?
Some times it's all games and even the dashboard down. But Halo 3 and CoD4 seem to have the most issues. Probably because they have by far the most traffic.
I imagine even they are ok now, since it's 2:30 EST on a monday. Problems are generally in peak hours.
MikeydCT
01-07-2008, 03:53 PM
I was trying to boost in saints row and we could not match up
Trakan
01-07-2008, 04:15 PM
I enjoyed lotsa CoD4 online this weekend. How about you?
I played about 10 hours over the weekend. On the 360. How about you?
jakehoss
01-07-2008, 04:19 PM
/\
Burn
menikmati
01-07-2008, 04:24 PM
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20080107.jpg
mykevermin
01-07-2008, 04:26 PM
I played about 10 hours over the weekend. On the 360. How about you?
Nowhere near 10 hours, but I didn't experience any lag, disconnect, or the myriad problems people are describing with XBL (save for my Double Dragon woes, but that's nothing worth getting upset about) in the 3 or so hours I did spend playing it.
10 hours in a weekend? No wonder I'm barely level 10 and everyone else seems to be 45+. :lol:
mtxbass1
01-08-2008, 08:50 PM
Another day and I'm completely unable to join any COD4 games. Anyone else having issues?
Frogger finally downloaded the update it needed, but it took 3 tries.
dmaul1114
01-08-2008, 08:59 PM
Same here.
Was fine from 6:45 to 7:40 or so. Then got kicked out of the lobby and couldnt' get into another match. Kept getting the "you must have an active network..." message again. :bomb:
Oh well, was getting ready to get off anyway. But still annoying that XBL if STILL having problems.
SynGamer
01-08-2008, 09:15 PM
Another day and I'm completely unable to join any COD4 games. Anyone else having issues?
Frogger finally downloaded the update it needed, but it took 3 tries.
Friend and i tried to play some halo 3...didn't work. This is getting to the point that a free month of XBL is in order rather than a fucking game.
GuilewasNK
01-08-2008, 10:51 PM
Friend and i tried to play some halo 3...didn't work. This is getting to the point that a free month of XBL is in order rather than a fucking game.
Why would you want a free month of something that doesn't work?
SynGamer
01-08-2008, 10:58 PM
Why would you want a free month of something that doesn't work?
Because that's the only way to play against friends and family when they aren't over or vice versa.
GuilewasNK
01-08-2008, 11:01 PM
I guess I'll try Live for the heck of it. I'm really too tired to play much even if it is working properly.
Ikohn4ever
01-09-2008, 12:15 AM
it worked fine at 430 but when I tried again at 8 it blew whale balls. It is really inexcusable especially cause they are being completely silent on the issue.
dmaul1114
01-09-2008, 12:24 AM
Why would you want a free month of something that doesn't work?
Because they will get it fixed eventually, and we'd all like a free month where we can actually play online, to compensate us for the 3 weeks and counting of very limited service that we have paid for!
dmaul1114
01-09-2008, 12:38 AM
Blurb about the continued outaged posted on Kotaku a while ago.
Xbox Live Outage Watch 2008: Day 19 And the Xbox Live problems don't stop til the beat drops. After running Okayish for the last day or two, Xbox Live has once again frozen to a halt, with users complaining of everything from disappearing achievements to...well, everything else. Xbox.com is also currently displaying the now-familiar "Xbox Live Marketplace users may experience intermittent issues..." message. The lack of communication from MS over why this is happening, and when we can expect it fixed, is no longer annoying. It's fast becoming inexcusable.
Bolded part pretty much sums up the issue for me. MS really needs to start giving it's PAYING members some info on why the service we are paying for has been absolute shit for 3 weeks.
Danil ACE
01-09-2008, 02:01 AM
I haven't had any lag for the past few days. Seems like MS fixed it.
bil4ltool
01-09-2008, 02:09 AM
I haven't had any lag for the past few days. Seems like MS fixed it.
No way, it varies by user. Still screwed up....3 weeks later. This is outrageous.
Kapwanil
01-09-2008, 02:19 AM
My connection isn't too bad as of late, at least in comparison to its previous "NO LIVE FOR YOU!!!" status. However, I still have a good amount of lag when I play online and while it's not necessarily stiffiling, it does throw off most games to the point where unless I want to start getting frustrated I'm better off just playing something offline for a while.
Kromax
01-09-2008, 07:47 AM
I couldn't get into any COD 4 games last night, and I was really looking forward to it. I fired up Half Life 2 instead.
lordxixor101
01-09-2008, 09:26 AM
Well, i'm glad other people were having problems. I tried jumping on about 8:30est, and couldn't connect to a match. I was only going to play for a half hour or so, but still.
I haven't been effected too much overall playing this, but like most of the adults here, there just isn't that much time to play in a day, so when I can play, I like it ready to go. I don't have the option to play at 9am instead if it's too packed in the evenings.
bil4ltool
01-09-2008, 10:23 AM
Honestly, even though it's in their TOS that there's no guarantee, we should be getting the arcade game PLUS subscription reimbursement for the entire time Live was/is screwed up
SynGamer
01-09-2008, 11:03 AM
Honestly, even though it's in their TOS that there's no guarantee, we should be getting the arcade game PLUS subscription reimbursement for the entire time Live was/is screwed up
Since this has been going on for almost 3 weeks, i would like to think MS will go ahead and give us a free month of XBL. If not, i'll be on the phone asking for mine.
getmyrunon
01-09-2008, 11:57 AM
Since this has been going on for almost 3 weeks, i would like to think MS will go ahead and give us a free month of XBL. If not, i'll be on the phone asking for mine.
I hope this happens, and then I can't wait until MS gives Silver members a free month of life too and Gold members go apeshit :)
dmaul1114
01-09-2008, 01:20 PM
I hope this happens, and then I can't wait until MS gives Silver members a free month of life too and Gold members go apeshit :)
That's one thing were gold members would have a reason to be annoyed.
The crappy servers can't handle the load now, imagine what giving all the Silver members a free month of Gold service all at the same time would do to them!
BREVITY
01-09-2008, 08:18 PM
Its still f@cked up and I cant believe it but it seems worse the last few days then it did last week. I cant stand it and have been catching up on offline games after plugging into Live for a hour just to check things out each day. I hate how its effecting all of Live, Halo 3 and COD 4 sucked online.
GuilewasNK
01-09-2008, 08:22 PM
I didn't have any issues at all last night.
torifile
01-09-2008, 09:07 PM
Its still f@cked up and I cant believe it but it seems worse the last few days then it did last week. I cant stand it and have been catching up on offline games after plugging into Live for a hour just to check things out each day. I hate how its effecting all of Live, Halo 3 and COD 4 sucked online.
Really? I've actually had no problems in the past 2.5 days. Even earlier today. Granted, I'm talking maybe 2 hours total play time, but matchmaking was fast and I didn't get "game lobby closed" errors. BTW, this is in CoD4.
mtxbass1
01-09-2008, 09:34 PM
Again tonight. I get in COD4, 2 matches are fine. The rest time out to the point where I can't connect to any games anymore.
I've switched over to the PS3 for the time being.
torifile
01-09-2008, 11:10 PM
No love tonight. I lost count of how many times I got "game lobby closed" before even getting into a single match. I gave up and returned to Bioshock. Damn, that's one intense game! After nothing but CoD4 for the past few weeks, I'd forgotten how on edge that game makes me.
dmaul1114
01-10-2008, 02:16 AM
Yeah, I had problems again CoD4 tonight, so I've sidelined that and moved on to Mass Effect.
Will give that a slow, thorough play through in hopes that Live will be back to normal when I'm done and I can hop back in to CoD4.
dmaul1114
01-15-2008, 12:17 PM
Who's still having issues? I haven't tried playing on Live lately, but my Dashboard has been crap the past couple of days.
Blades either not loading at all, or taking for ever to come up (aside from Games and System).
Callandor
01-15-2008, 12:40 PM
I've been running Live nigh flawlessly for a week or so. COD4 will get bumpy for a few minutes here and there, but otherwise the experience has been perfect.
msane
01-15-2008, 03:41 PM
Games have been OK over the past week (some lag in Crackdown co-op, but not terrible), but the dashboard has been hella slow.
Indiana
01-15-2008, 08:36 PM
It appears to suck right now. I can't download new songs and it keeps saying I can't connect to live. Come on Microsoft hurry up and upgrade your circuits and servers!!!
dmaul1114
01-15-2008, 08:58 PM
I still wonder if they aren't under some kind of recurring denial of service attack, or if they got hacked and their having a hell of time dealing with the viruses uploaded or other damage done.
Seems like if it was just a server capacity issue due to the flux of new users over x-mas coupled with the hoards playing Halo 3 and CoD4 that they'd have that resolved by now. It's been almost a month, if it was a bandwith problem you'd think that would be more than enough time to add servers or whatever.
quackers
01-15-2008, 10:14 PM
I just purchased my Xbox360 this afternoon played around with it a bit then tried to connect to Live and every time I try to create an account it gives me an error message saying they're aren't accepting new accounts at this time.
I've been reading about the outages for the past month but thought they were resolved. Guess I'll have to put Live off for another day.
Indiana
01-15-2008, 10:41 PM
The problem could be bandwidth rather than servers. Bandwidth is not usually a quick fix it can take 30 to 90 days depending on what is required.
dmaul1114
01-15-2008, 10:53 PM
The problem could be bandwidth rather than servers. Bandwidth is not usually a quick fix it can take 30 to 90 days depending on what is required.
But you'd think a company with the resources of MS could get it fixed MUCH faster. Especially given that they're a computer company.
Outage would make more sense if it's something they can't pinpoint, be it an attack, virus, or some weird server issues.
Chase
01-15-2008, 11:04 PM
But you'd think a company with the resources of MS could get it fixed MUCH faster. Especially given that they're a computer company.
Outage would make more sense if it's something they can't pinpoint, be it an attack, virus, or some weird server issues.
If it were an attack on their servers, I wouldn't really fault Microsoft (hell, their own OS isn't as secure as it could be), and would like the assailants castrated for the problems they caused us.
In any event, I have experienced this "Cannot connect to Xbox Live" issue near every day since Holiday Havoc 2007. For me, it's a nonissue as I eventually connect, but, ya know, this should be resolved. Soon would be best, considering the impression it will give to new subscribers.
Callandor
01-16-2008, 06:34 PM
Interview with the lawyer who is heading the lawsuit against Microsoft for the XBL downtime. (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1579728/20080116/index.jhtml)
Jimbo Slice
01-17-2008, 08:22 PM
I need some help. Now that I'm back at school (where I had no problems connecting last semester, after registering the console w/ my U) I am repeatedly failing the MTU test. I don't even totally know what this test is but it stands for Maximum Transmission unit. I've tried the test about 10 times now and it hasn't worked a single time.
Anyone know what I can do to get back onto Live?
Wolfpup
01-18-2008, 01:59 PM
This is kind of a stab in the dark, but is that something that your school's router could be setting differently for some reason? I don't know enough about it or why you'd change it...
Jimbo Slice
01-18-2008, 02:14 PM
This is kind of a stab in the dark, but is that something that your school's router could be setting differently for some reason? I don't know enough about it or why you'd change it...
I don't know much about this stuff so what would you recommend I do?
tokitoki50
01-18-2008, 06:52 PM
I don't know much about this stuff so what would you recommend I do?
You may need to manually set your MTU value on the xbox if it keeps failing. Generally the value is 1500 on most networks. Otherwise I'd call your ResNet (or whatever they call it at your University) and find out the MTU value of the network. If they won't give it to you, have them send a tech and fix it for you. It's what they're there for.
Ryukahn
01-18-2008, 08:03 PM
I still have issues of not being able to connect to live or it connecting very very slowly. Also, the 360 has frozen a few times when trying to connect to messanger, so I stopped trying that for the time being. Hopefully this is fixed soon.
mtxbass1
01-19-2008, 04:24 PM
Well, I've gone from a week of no issues, to now today not being able to connect again. The blades aren't loading at all.
Fantastic.
jollydwarf
01-19-2008, 05:36 PM
Ditto here, on the whole. It would come and go (but mostly "go") for me until I just gave up and shut it off.* This is inexcusable if it's because of the 'user strain' reason they say it is.
The hardware's faulty, the service we pay yearly for is faulty...
...are you reading this post, Strell?
*--But not before watching the latest Too Human SK video diary. Don't know how good the game will be, but it looks beautiful.
GuilewasNK
01-19-2008, 05:43 PM
No problems for me.
torifile
01-19-2008, 05:58 PM
I had trouble with games yesterday. Game lobbies closing left and right. I did get a few games in but it was a challenge and I never had a game with the same people more than once. I also had some lag during the games. Is this *ever* going to be fixed? We're nearing a month now. My XBL is due for renewal on Feb. 14th. Hopefully by then.
BREVITY
01-19-2008, 06:27 PM
Same here its actually been worse lately... in game anyway. I cant hear people and headshots are a thing of the past. When in the hell will this be fixed. Often its unplayable for me.
Poor2More
01-19-2008, 06:33 PM
They can take their time, they gave us UndertTow FTW! ..........my LIVE been flawless for the past week
torifile
01-19-2008, 07:57 PM
They can take their time, they gave us UndertTow FTW! ..........my LIVE been flawless for the past week
No, they can't. This is beyond ridiculous. Undertow? I don't give a fuck about Undertow. I just want to play online the games I cared enough about to buy.
GuilewasNK
01-19-2008, 08:06 PM
Which providers are everyone using? I have Embarq and things have been smooth for a while now. Maybe the issues are with particular providers not being able to connect properly to Live?
jollydwarf
01-20-2008, 03:10 AM
I never experienced any problems of any significance and for any extended duration specific to accessing Xbox Live until approximately the same time this issue apparently arose with the overall userbase last month.
Lawyerspeak-y enough for ya?
Wolfpup
01-24-2008, 08:53 PM
Yikes. I'm downloading some demos right now. I've got an internet connection that's over 1MB/s-crazy fast. But I've been downloading a 50MB game now for TWO HOURS now. I can't imagine if I were trying to play online.
getmyrunon
01-24-2008, 10:17 PM
I don't know much about this stuff so what would you recommend I do?
Do you have a computer that uses the same ethernet port you're using with your console? Copy the MAC address of that computer down onto a piece of paper. Then go into the XBL network settings, and then I think it's like "more" or "custom" or something - change the MAC address to a custom one and copy down the one from your piece of paper. This may solve your problems, but it's not the best of workarounds and could potentially get you in trouble with your resnet office. Your best bet is to call them but this could be a quick fix.
Ikohn4ever
01-25-2008, 12:11 AM
i didnt post it in here, because i dunno, this is a totally new problem for me, and i have had difficulties that were similar to others in the past
what happens is that i try to play an online version of the game it told me to sign in. I try to sign in. It says I am not connected to live. I do the test. It works. Then I try all those steps again. The 2nd test says my ICMP has failed. Turn off the 360 start it back up it says everything is fine. Still can't play online. 4th test says ICMP has failed. Call MSOFT support. Do a bunch of crap unplug everything router and 360. Try again says XBL not working. Then I try a 6th time says everything working. 7th test says ICMP has failed. Also i try to play some of XBLA games while on hold, some of my bought games are in demo version around half actually. Finally talk to a supervisor. We do everything the first guy did. After being on the phone an hour. I am told i should try to update my firmware on the router, which i looked online hasnt had an update since 06. This is wirless, and real far from the router, but he suggests trying just plugging it in. Finally the last option he says is Fios isnt officially compatible with XBL you can try switching ISPs. Thats it. Thats all they leave me with.
And all the other machines that use the net work fine even the wireless ones.
i am going to try again tomorrow, and give Fios a call.
strdr4
01-30-2008, 02:32 PM
yeah.... Live is down for me as well. I haven't seen many people say anything so I huess I'm just unlucky. It started yesterday and it's still unable to connect as of today. I wanted to dl Rez.