Hi, a mate of mine seems unable to host games. His NAT is open and the connection test is fine. If he creates a 10 player game of Rainbow Six, the game starts fine and people join normally. However, about 3 or 4 minutes into the game, my mate (hosting) will get disconnected from xbox live. It then wont let him back online for about 5 minutes.
If he runs the connection test once he has been DC'd, it will fail at Xbox Live saying its unable to connect. Then about 5 minutes later all is well.At first I thought it was his modem crashing under heavy loads because the DPX 100 is well known for doing that, but the connection is via his router. Also, once he gets DC'd. he can still use his internet as normal, it just wont let him back on live for 5 mins or so. Some details
Its a wired connection via a router to a cable modem. Modem is Webstar DPX100 (same as mine and I have no trouble hosting)
Router/firewall is Netgear FVL328 but my mate has said that his xbox doesnt go through this anymore
And he has a Netgear FS526t switching port set up.His xbox goes through this I think
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