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Originally Posted by SpitFire40
Ahhh.. so more of a technical problem? Can you access the Marketplace? Can your friends see you online, and/or can you see your friends as online?
You may need to open these ports on your router
The following ports must be available for Xbox Live to operate correctly:
•UDP 88
•UDP 3074
•TCP 3074
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Are you sure those ports need to be open. I dont have those ports open on my router and XBL works fine for me.
There is no mention of ports off M$ XBL website
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/co...ods/router.htm
I would be very warry of opening up ephemeril ports, alot of times home based firewall and routing software dont do intrusive tests on those ports. Also if the port is open, the X360 could be used to hijack your computer if you are connected to ir via XP Media Centre.
Be very wary of opening those ports. I would test plugging it in directly to the modem first. Also, on the X360 console under network settings, check to see what you are getting for external IP, you should be getting the same IP range as what your router gets.
The other thing to do if that doesnt work is with Shaw you get two IP's, so you could forward the IP you currently arent using to your X360, you would require a static IP to be set on the X360 for that to work, more intrusive but alot better than opening port 3074.
It seems very strange to me that M$ would require users to open ports for thier service to work, port 80 should work just fine.
MYK