Well here is what issue I am running into.

I recently graduated from college and of course had a 360 that we played all the time. My school had a contract with comcast to come in and provide our internet for us. We never had any issues connecting to Xbox Live nor did we ever have any problems with getting booted from an on line game (Namely Halo 3).

So I am currently living at home right now until i find my own place, and for the life of me cannot get my Live to work. I have an original 360(which is getting fixed right now, I vented about this in the games forum) and i have a new Elite. Neither will work. I'm running out of ideas here.

Where i am getting hung up is with the DNS and sometimes it hangs me up on the IP address, and if it does connect it will kick me off if i try to play a Halo 3 match or anything else on line. I have contacted my ISP with is Armstrong, and they reassure me every time i call " Sir all of our equipment and services work flawlessly with xbox360". Right....

I have tired a lot of things to get this to work port forwarding(which armstrong doesn't allow), went to xbox.com searched on their forums, asked people at xbox360achievements.org on their forums. Nothing seems to be working.

So i have come to the conclusion that Armstrong just blows as an ISP.

Do any of you have any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, anything at all that i can try?

did you set up everything manually, that might work. Use a computer to find the IP and all that stuff out.

no thats really the only thing i haven't tried. Thanks i will give that a shot and ill post back here if i can get it to work

Setting the correct IP Address should do the trick.

I;m going to try that tonight, but another thing im not sure about is the DNS. Mine just gives me the default numbers. Do you think if i called my ISP they would be able to provide me with DNS numbers to use.

live issues are my life ... jumping from freshman dorms, to my house last year and the new house.... i've experienced them all.

absolute best thing to try is to boot up your normal computer...
connect to the internet,
and then try to simulate everything you can from your computer onto the xbox.

alot of the times either you will fix something you didn't know was causing the problem.. OR build yourself a connection to your ISP and if that connection isn't gone for very long between the time you use your computer and xbox then they might still think that xbox is a computer. at least thats how it got explained to me freshman year, but i don't even know if that is true. nonetheless, it worked, barreling a hole with your computer and then using the xbox to use that hole.

DNS Servers:
4.2.2.2
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Thanks a lot guys, I'll give this a shot and hopefully my next post will be to tell you it worked!

Try pulling up your router info and then getting every thing from that. Also open all the ports in your router. Just type in your IP adress on internet explorer or whatever you run.
I have had my fair share of live issues on my old X-Box. Some of the employes got to know me evry well I called so many times.

This post has been edited by Holden117: 7 Mar, 2008 - 09:34 AM

Thanks for all your help guys entering all the information manually seems to be working really well. Hopefully it stays like this.


thanks again!

Well this fix worked for a while, now its back to kicking me off Halo whenever i try to play on line.

When it kicks me off I run the test connection and the DNS is failing. That and my internet at my house is crashing constantly so it could be that.

All i know is that its pissing me off, i'll have time to sit down and mess with it tonight.

After trying...and trying to fix shit situation, the solution to the problem was getting a new router. Apparently my other one was not fully compatible with 360.