Halo 2 on 360 xbl problems

[Rob Oplawar]

I fail at google searches for things like this, and I didn't turn up anything on this site either, so:

Whenever I start any xbox live match on Halo 2 on my 360, I start out with a perfect connection, with absolutely no lag whatsoever- it's like I'm on a LAN. But slowly it degrades and by the end of the game, every time, I have 1 bar and it's lagging so bad I can't move. Literally- I'll move forward 10 feet and then jump back to my original location, and that keeps up until the game ends.

I have Comcast (I know, damn the bastards, but it's the best internet I can get in my apartment). I have a cable modem in the wall, which goes out via a two way ethernet to a router, and I have prolly a 25 foot cable from the router to my xbox. I've heard longer cables can have an effect on performance, but I don't think 25 feet should be any problem...

Anyways, does anyone know off the top of their heads what could be the cause of this problem? It's immensely frustrating to start out every game so well, and get all hopeful every time, just to have it lag me out of the game halfway through.

[Kybo_Ren]

Well, I know Comcast does QoS packet-by-packet throttling (i.e. they're assholes and throttle BiTorrent traffic). Maybe you're getting hit by that?

[Rob Oplawar]

Well, I called Comcast and they informed me that my router did appear to be "in the red", whatever that means, so they're sending a technician by on Thursday to take a look at it.

[Patrickssj6]

Well, I know Comcast does QoS packet-by-packet throttling (i.e. they're assholes and throttle BiTorrent traffic). Maybe you're getting hit by that?
Yeah my though too ^^

And the cable connection regarding Ethernet cables...the connection quality barely changes. I mean it's just some light impulses. :D

Coaxial Cables are affected by the length of them since they use a lot of electricity to keep the quality up. :)

[et_cg]

Try using a bittorent program to check your NAT.

I suggest checking both your router and your modem and see what they're firmware is like, associate yourself with each interface.

I had problems like this plenty of times before and my simple fix was just to forward my modems ports so that the router could have those ports open, then in the router I forwarded the ports for my computer on the network.

So an example would be...

Default gateway for modem, 192.168.0.1
Default gateway for router, 192.168.1.1
Target ports, UDP 88, UDP/TCP 3074

So now, through your modem you'd just forward port 88 (UDP) and port 3074 (UDP/TCP) to your router. Then in your router, you'd open the ports for your Xbox. I'd suggest checking the xbox for it's individual IP address, just in case you need it.

In order to do all this port forwarding you're going to need to know how to access your routers firmware and use a computer.

For my router and modem it's as simple as typing in the gateway address.

I'm in class right now, so I can really elaborate too much. If you have any questions, be sure to send me an email or something. I'll get back to you asap. Right now, PM's are best for contacting me.

[Rob Oplawar]

I think I see what you're saying, but I have absolutely no experience in this area, and the technician is already scheduled to come today, so hopefully he'll take care of it. My roommate called in the request, so I assume he would have told me if we were going to have to pay for the fix, so hopefully it'll be taken care of without too much of a headache.