Joining Parties & Games

Hi Everyone,



First post here, i have become extreemly frustrated with talktalks service due to their lack of help with resolving this issue. Let me explain what the problem is and what i have tried to rectify the issue.



I am not able to connect to parties or games hosted by my firend who is also on talktalk, i can connect with friends who are running on different ISP's to me(and so can he), this issue is the same when i host a party and try to invite him as well.



There is no specific error code from the xbox, just "can't connect to xbox live party". I have a case open with microsoft as well trying to fix this but they can not understand why it isn't working. Everything was working fine until about 3 to 4 weeks ago
now, when this issue occured.



I can confirm that both of our xboxs are working fine and there is no conflict between our profiles because i have taken my xbox over to my neiboughs house (whos ISP is EE), started a party, added my friend and everything worked perfectly. We tried it the
other way around, so i asked my friend to invite me to a party and everything worked fine.



We have both been using talktalks super routers, i have opened all the required ports, tried to DMZ the Xbox's IP, Upnp is Enabled, i have reset the router back to factory settings and started fresh(we have done this on both routers). I have also been out
and bought a new router and set that up in hope that it was just my router and still no difference.



I have also tried setting a manual IP and DNS on the Xbox to make sure it differs from my friends and then applying all of the above proceedures again based upon the Xbox's static IP. I have run through every diagnostic test that i can with microsoft ( who
have been helpful and actually willing to try and get to the bottom of this with me). As i say everything works fine with anyone else that we try and play with online who are on other ISP's.



The last test i ran was setting up a free vpn on my laptop and running the xbox through that which actually alowed us to connect to a party together, so effectively by passing talktalks internet.



Any help would be great as i am pulling my hair out now regarding this situation.



Thanks



Kris

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Joining Parties & Games problems

Hi Everyone,



First post here, i have become extreemly frustrated with talktalks service due to their lack of help with resolving this issue. Let me explain what the problem is and what i have tried to rectify the issue.



I am not able to connect to parties or games hosted by my firend who is also on talktalk, i can connect with friends who are running on different ISP's to me(and so can he), this issue is the same when i host a party and try to invite him as well.



There is no specific error code from the xbox, just "can't connect to xbox live party". I have a case open with microsoft as well trying to fix this but they can not understand why it isn't working. Everything was working fine until about 3 to 4 weeks ago
now, when this issue occured.



I can confirm that both of our xboxs are working fine and there is no conflict between our profiles because i have taken my xbox over to my neiboughs house (whos ISP is EE), started a party, added my friend and everything worked perfectly. We tried it the
other way around, so i asked my friend to invite me to a party and everything worked fine.



We have both been using talktalks super routers, i have opened all the required ports, tried to DMZ the Xbox's IP, Upnp is Enabled, i have reset the router back to factory settings and started fresh(we have done this on both routers). I have also been out
and bought a new router and set that up in hope that it was just my router and still no difference.



I have also tried setting a manual IP and DNS on the Xbox to make sure it differs from my friends and then applying all of the above proceedures again based upon the Xbox's static IP. I have run through every diagnostic test that i can with microsoft ( who
have been helpful and actually willing to try and get to the bottom of this with me). As i say everything works fine with anyone else that we try and play with online who are on other ISP's.



The last test i ran was setting up a free vpn on my laptop and running the xbox through that which actually alowed us to connect to a party together, so effectively by passing talktalks internet.



Any help would be great as i am pulling my hair out now regarding this situation.



Thanks



Kris

 

Joining parties

I think the problem could be you NAT.

Please see this table bellow and find out your NAT type and Your Friends NAT.

[table][tr]OpenModerateStrict[/tr][tr][td]Open[/td][td]YES[/td][td]YES[/td][td]YES[/td][/tr][tr][td]Moderate[/td][td]YES[/td][td]YES[/td][td]NO[/td][/tr][tr][td]Strict[/td][td]YES[/td][td]No[/td][td]NO[/td][/tr][/table]

So lets say your NAT is Moderate.

Your Friends NAT is Strict.

Then You would NOT be able to talk to one an other, Thus Having issues

Now, you will need to find out your friends NAT and your NAT type. But Is it saying anything when it cuts you out? Like Failed to join party please try again later?

I use to have issues like this and i Fixed it by Port Forwarding and placeing my Xbox's Local IP Address in DMZ mode and everything was fixes? Also are you using a wired or wireless connection?

From,