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Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: MeanMF on November 07, 2006, 10:14:00 PM

Ya I'm getting the exact same thing..Somebody said that it was because the game had started by the time I tried to join. I was able to host up a room no problem though.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: hardhead36 on November 08, 2006, 05:43:00 AM

Best way to avoid it is to make sure you are trying to join matches that already have 6/8 or 7/8 in them. Usually I get that message it's because that match is full by the time I try to join. I've been joining 4/8 and 5/8 matches easily with no problems as of yet.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Blade732 on November 09, 2006, 12:28:00 AM

Getting this as well error as well. 9 times out of the 10 games I try to go into.
I'm thinking it's a problem with needing to open ports on my router specifically for GoW.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Blade732 on November 09, 2006, 01:22:00 AM

These adjustments to my router seemed to have fixed the problem.

Off xbox.com's 360 support page:

Q. What ports need to be open for Xbox Live to work properly?

A. If your NAT appears as MODERATE or STRICT, making sure that the ports listed below are open may improve your gaming experience.

UDP 53

UDP 88

UDP 3330

UDP 3074

TCP 3074

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: kevishie on November 09, 2006, 08:50:00 AM

Im having the same problem, guessing its a router problem? Im going to try opening those ports up when i get home.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: griffin XXI on November 09, 2006, 09:38:00 AM

I wasn't initially able to connect with a friend for coop last evening. Just through coincidence, earlier I had been reading the COD3 manual, and in it, I remembered reading that for Live play, they highly recommended not using a router, unless you enabled something or another. So my friend disconnected his router, and then we were able to connect. I don't know if this is coincidence or not, because earlier, without the games even in, we weren't able to set up a private chat room, so there might have been other issues going that we weren't aware of. But after he did that with his router, (I still had mine connected btw) everything was peachy keen.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: davemire on November 09, 2006, 04:05:00 PM

QUOTE(griffin XXI @ Nov 9 2006, 08:45 AM)

I get this problem endlessly with Splinet Cell and no router.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: sp3cialk on November 10, 2006, 09:33:00 AM

do anyone have the issue with voice?? seems like when my friend hosts a player match if everyone comes in at once it's great... but room fills up and someone leaves person that comes in we can't hear... but from what i've been told they can hear us... anyone else getting this?

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Mario4885 on November 12, 2006, 06:47:00 PM

Im getting this error around 80-90% of the time as well. Major pain! Someone has got to figure out how to resolve this, eh? SheriffDane

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: MeanMF on November 12, 2006, 08:00:00 PM

Ya, make sure you go into custom and not quick match. Then when it pops up saying it's searching for games, hit X (refresh) once or twice and it'll display the games that it's found so far...Join one of those. I can join those games at least 90% of the time.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: C o s m o on November 17, 2006, 09:16:00 AM

I'm gonna have to try the XX trick, because my console is connected directly to my modem and I lose host ~90% of the time, too. Frustrating.
I was playing a multi-match yesterday, and right as I was about to shotgun a guy in the head to win my first round EVER, *boob* lost the connection.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: unclepauly on November 19, 2006, 08:37:00 PM

I'm hooked up directly the my cable modem and get the same thing. First 5 matches no problem, then ever since I get it 95% of the time. I'm lucky to even play multi, this is ruining my experience.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: dabears1 on November 21, 2006, 09:24:00 AM

that happens to me when i tried to play ranked games. i did mange to get a few games in looking for games that had 5/8 or 6/8 people in it. try joining these games and you should be able to play.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: xboxSlayer on November 23, 2006, 12:55:00 AM

I havn't been able to connect once since I got the game, not even to get the game update. I'll try opening the ports listed earlier and see if that helps.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Super-Mari0 on November 23, 2006, 08:13:00 AM

i called MS for support on this issue, they said it mostly like has to do (in my case) that I am using Vonage, the Voice over IP. they said that vonage reserves a certain amount of bandwidth for the phone. So for those who have the internet phone, that might be your problem

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Jrgong420 on November 25, 2006, 03:41:00 PM

go to port range forward

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: grim_d on November 26, 2006, 11:46:00 AM

i forwarded those ports.

it changed my NAT status from moderate to open, whihc is good, but i still can't play anything in GOW.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Monkey106 on December 05, 2006, 04:09:00 AM

From what i've seen on the internet it's a pretty widespread problem - I just tried to host a private co-op and invited my brother to play, he couldn't connect, so he tried hosting and I couldn't connect to him either. I even tried opening the ports on my router, which didn't work.

Seems to me like it's a problem with the game, one which Epic have acknowledged, however the patch that GoW recently asked me to install has done nothing for the problem anyway. I hope to hell there's another one coming.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: lowendfrequency on December 07, 2006, 02:20:00 PM

I couldn't connect for shit, even after opening the recomended ports ,until I set the 360's channel to DMZ on my router.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Monkey106 on December 11, 2006, 11:54:00 PM

Well apparently Epic is trying to get a patch out before Christmas - we can always hope, anyway.

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: HamSandwhich on December 12, 2006, 04:08:00 AM

Do the specific game search and when it's saying Refreshing keep tapping X

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Monkey106 on December 12, 2006, 09:19:00 AM

Yeah I already know that trick; the problem I have is that if I host or my brother hosts a private co-op game we can't connect to each other. Even if we host a public game we can't connect, but strangely other people can. I'm pretty sure it's not on my side because i've forwarded every port they ask for AND put my router's IP in the DMZ. Is it likely to be my brother's modem blocking connections?

Title: Anyone Else Getting "dropped Host Connection"?
Post by: Monkey106 on December 14, 2006, 01:40:00 AM

Ok problem solved, my brother added his Xbox 360's IP to his DMZ on his modem/router and now we can connect to each other fine. He also opened up ports 88 and 3074 as suggested. So there you go folks, it seems most of the problems stem from routers/modems blocking connections.

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