I can do everything except talk to my friends in an xbox live party.

None speaks of being permanent but on the site enforcement does not speak of the (suración) of this.
DURATION*

Yes I Have looked at the guide, and it didn't help me out, since it basically says check the forums. I'm not having any trouble connecting, and I pass all the tests with no warnings. I can do everything in LIVE like partying with friends and watching tv
except finding live games.

I personally disagree, if people do not feel like talking publicly to other people in the lobby of the game your playing, then they just start a party chat so the person can talk to their friends. If know one is talking in the lobby, then you make a party
chat with one of your friends. But yes there is a down side to this. If you have no friends and your new to xbox live and you need some friends to play with. Most of the people that have a mic are in party chat. But there is a 50/50 chance of that happening.
Thats why you come to the forums. Cant find nobody to talk to on xbox live cause they are all in party chat. Come here and make new friends!

I just bought my Xbox yesterday and I'm having the same problem except it lets me join parties and talk to my friends. But when I go to join or host a multiplayer session it says it is unavailable and I need to connect to Xbox live. My NAT is open and both
the network and multiplayer tests were successful.

While I do agree with you a lot. Party Chat did wreck teamplay, but not, it's just something that we cannot live without. If only there was an option to have both party chat AND ingame voip working at the same time, like it does for ever game on the PC except
Battlefield 3.

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I'm always in my friends Team Speak channel, and while playing games, you can talk behind peoples back and rage in there.