XBOX Live Disconnections

Albie · 24-04-2011, 15:55

Anyone else being disconnected from xbox live every couple of minutes? Also the connection is dropping when watching live video.

Hom3r · 24-04-2011, 16:00

I get this occationally.

I have a XBL friend who lives near Belfast, I'll contact them to see if they have had similar issues.

Albie · 24-04-2011, 16:03

It started last night and is worse today. If I'm playing MoH and the action gets hot it'll just disconnect.

SnoopZ · 24-04-2011, 16:20

No problems here when im using the FREE live weekend as i don't have gold.

Jayster · 24-04-2011, 17:06

No problems at all last night and Friday night.

Foo Fighter · 24-04-2011, 17:19

Theres big thread on the virgin community forums with problems with xbox live.

Seems the traffic management is thinking xbox live is peer to peer and causing all sorts of problems but virgin deny it and havent been able to figure it out for over a month

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...60/td-p/429663

craigj2k12 · 24-04-2011, 17:58

its a problem they are having with the p2p management, which is targetting other traffic like xbox live and call of duty, this is active from 5pm to midnight weekdays, and midday to midnight weekends, outside these times there shouldnt be any problems, and if there is, then something else is wrong

markie1966 · 24-04-2011, 18:42

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Originally Posted by craigj2k11

its a problem they are having with the p2p management, which is targetting other traffic like xbox live and call of duty, this is active from 5pm to midnight weekdays, and midday to midnight weekends, outside these times there shouldnt be any problems, and if there is, then something else is wrong

are you sure its during those hours???
ive had nothing but problems trying to play cod at anytime of day for weeks now...tho im playing thru a pc and not xbox live
been losing packets....see my other thread on it to believe me....for ages and im getting really ****ed off by it
and on the VM forums i now see theres hundreds of gamers now noticing that theres packet loss while play WOW and other games
its obvious that theres p2p management going on here and if virgin dont stop it then people will leave by their thousands...and rightly so in my opinion
the gamers that use VM just want a stable connection to play games at any time of day....not reduced hours
after all virgin promised that games would run faster and smoother on their network...and were the ones that are paying good money to use what is fast becoming a shoddy network

pip08456 · 24-04-2011, 19:43

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Originally Posted by markie1966

after all virgin promised that games would run faster and smoother on their network...and were the ones that are paying good money to use what is fast becoming a shoddy network

Not the first time they've been found out telling porkies!

craigj2k12 · 24-04-2011, 20:14

if your seeing packet loss to particular servers, particularly to the maidenhead area, you should see this:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...sit-issue.html

hedgie · 24-04-2011, 21:33

Yup I have been having problems for ages, mostly I get MTU errors. I even struggle to use the xbox live website on the laptop.

Really struggling with this try explaining it to a 10 year old

Come on, surely some of the VM staffers can escalate this the "offiicial" forum is full of this but there seems no drive to fix it. XBOX Live is a major part of broadband useage, if it does not work I will have to change to another ISP and I really don;t want to.....

Feel free to PM me I am willing to be a test dummy if it helps !

peachy001 · 25-04-2011, 08:24

I'm having major issues with this. Can rarely get through two games in a row on Battlefield B C 2. The guys I play with all are on 2 meg but have no issues. I'm on 10 meg and get a very stable 1.1mb per second if downloading anything. Playing online has got very bad and I can't carry on like this. I've tried resets of the router, the Xbox, everything. New cables didn't help. This has to be an issue with Virgin playing silly devils. I don't hog bandwidth and the main use of my connection is for Xbox Live gaming sessions. Done those speed test things and all is well for everything except gaming.

Virgin have touted there prowess for gaming and even had a big advert/feature on Xbox Live. So I find this even more frustrating.

Not sure how I find out if I am losing packets.

peachy001 · 25-04-2011, 13:07

Just called VM and they say my power levels are wrong. I am not convinced. My Downloads on my PC are superb. they say they can send an engineer around. I actually think my speeds and ping are good and am very cautious about letting them tinker with it when I am 99% sure that power levels are not the cause of the Xbox live problems. They say that my downstream is too loud and my upstream is too low. The speed I am getting looks good to me (Doncaster is not scheduled to have the upstream upgraded for another month so not sure what is happening there).

Could the power levels be the issue? I sincerely doubt it.

pip08456 · 25-04-2011, 13:26

Yes, they could. Pity you haven't posted them so we could confirm.

craigj2k12 · 25-04-2011, 13:28

download and upload are spot on, the ping is brilliant, i doubt its power levels, unless they are miles out (which they probably arent because the speeds and ping are fine)