Topic: Can You Play Halo 2 With A Xbox And Xbox 360... (Read 68 times)

redhawk006 · « **on:** March 02, 2006, 01:31:00 AM »

Right now my friend and I both have xbox live accounts. I am on an xbox 360 and he is on a regular xbox. We have been trying to play an opti-match halo 2 game. Whenever either of us invite each other to play it says there are network problems. Is there a solutions?

Maertz · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2006, 08:36:00 AM »

yes 360 owners and xbox owners can play halo against eachother on live the not being able to join eachother is another problem, not sure bu i believe its something with the internet server or something.

Strato Cast · « **Reply #2 on:** March 05, 2006, 05:40:00 AM »

i had the exact same problem a couple of days ago. my friend has an original xbox and i have the 360. we both have live accounts and were not able to join each other in halo 2 at all. we were able to play against other people just fine, yet each time we tried to join each other we got that irritating message "...we're having network problems. sorry about that." i thought it was an xbox live problem. so i did a "test xbox live connection" on my 360. what stood out from the test was that the "NAT" resulted in being "Strict."

there are three categories of NAT: open, moderate, and strict. if you wanna read up more on that go here and look under NAT: http://forums.xbox.c...7/ShowPost.aspx

alright, now to the good stuff that might solve the headache for some of you out there reading this. my friend and I both have the WGR614(v6) NetGear router. we both simply updated our router firmware to Version 1.0.11 (or V1.0.11_1.0.7NA as it shows in the actual router settings) from the NetGear website, and when I did another "test xbox live connection" ....lo and behold...the "NAT" resulted in being "Open." and guess what?? my friend and i have had no problems at all joining each other since.

if you don't have the same router as me but are curious which firmware you should have for your router, then you should check out this page: http://www.xbox.com/...uterlanding.htm

anyway, i really hope this helps some of you out there. i don't really post on here, but i hope that through my frustration and headache...then some of you can avoid the same problems that i went through. calling xbox live support was of no use. i just got some Indian guy (no offense to Indian ppl) who didn't speak much English and didn't help at all.

well, good luck!!

Strato Cast · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2006, 05:21:00 PM »

QUOTE

if you don't have the same router as me but are curious which firmware you should have for your router, then you should check out this page: http://www.xbox.com/...uterlanding.htm

updated link:

http://www.xbox.com/...ngequipment.htm

Strato Cast · « **Reply #4 on:** May 05, 2006, 10:08:00 PM »

updated link to xbox live compatible routers:

http://www.xbox.com/...g/equipment.htm

volswagn · « **Reply #5 on:** June 27, 2006, 10:51:00 PM »

One other thing that fixed it for my stepson's Xbox (just sat here troubleshooting it for the last two hours)...

TURN OFF UPnP if you have a Netgear router. It's under the Administration panel. Disable it. Reboot the router afterwards if you want to make sure. Then check again to make sure it's disabled. Reboot your Xbox.

As I said, it worked here... YMMV. As soon as I turned PnP back on, "Network problems" message again. D'oh!

Good luck!

This post has been edited by volswagn: Jun 28 2006, 05:51 AM

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