Game/Party chat fail

Party chat is flat out garbage. I am so frustrated. 90% of my time is *** because its impossible trying to play gakes with friends because we are unable to communicate. Everytime I boot up my console and invite a friejd to my party it either shows him in
the party with no mic icon when I absolutely know he is using one or it shows him with a mic but it aint blinking as if he aint speaking. The next day hell say he saw the same on his end with me. jesus this is annoying. 2 waisted nights when I could've been
gaming with friends because of this garbage.

Its microsoft. My brother and I are on the same network and can't party chat or join games even with eachother. Its been like this for the past 3 days. Hope they fix it soon and comp everyone..

i posted my problem to the support forums in the connections sub-forum. If any of you wanna know the answer asap, my guess is it will be posted here as my answer or in this sub-forum area

forums.xbox.com/.../1893984.aspx

I'm having the same problem^^^^

I can't even explain how irritating this is.

Thxs for the information. As this is also happening when using the Kinect for chat it may be a problem with your connection and not with the hardware or the Xbox itself.

Would you provide us with some information on your network environment please? Especially useful is the information which router you use, how you are connected and your NAT status. You may please also perform a multiplayer connection test. In the result
screen please hold LT, LB, RT and RB simultaneously to start the detailed connection test. Wait for the detailed NAT status and post back the results here, too.