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Strange Router Issues with two 360s
FyreWulff
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Okay, so I have a Linksys NR041 from about late 2003. Been working fine.
Things are working pretty great. I had
- a Linux PC
- a Vista PC
- and an Xbox 360
hooked into it, no problems.
My brother is staying over, so he brought his 360. And since the Linux PC is pretty much dead, his 360 took it's slot/cable. Everything seems to work fine.
But after a few minutes one of us will get forcibly signed out of Live.
I've tried holding the reset button and power cycling it. It fixes things for a few minutes, and eventually one of us gets booted. If one Xbox stays off, the other one can stay on. If one gets booted off, it can't get a connection to Live until you turn it off and back on after turning the other Xbox off.
Also, in the network settings, everything passes until it tries to contact Live.
The interesting thing about this is we have no problem with the same setup at my mom's house - my brothers both have 360s and they're both on Live all the time, with no problems. It continues to work even when I come over and hook my 360 into a laptop and get on over it's wireless.
tl;dr router doesn't like two 360s staying connected, possible settings i should look into?
edit: yes i am aware the NR041 is listed as incompatible on the Xbox website but i've been using it just fine with both an OXbox and the 360 and even one of the router's firmware updates mentioned that it fixed compatibility with Xbox Live.
Things are working pretty great. I had
- a Linux PC
- a Vista PC
- and an Xbox 360
hooked into it, no problems.
My brother is staying over, so he brought his 360. And since the Linux PC is pretty much dead, his 360 took it's slot/cable. Everything seems to work fine.
But after a few minutes one of us will get forcibly signed out of Live.
I've tried holding the reset button and power cycling it. It fixes things for a few minutes, and eventually one of us gets booted. If one Xbox stays off, the other one can stay on. If one gets booted off, it can't get a connection to Live until you turn it off and back on after turning the other Xbox off.
Also, in the network settings, everything passes until it tries to contact Live.
The interesting thing about this is we have no problem with the same setup at my mom's house - my brothers both have 360s and they're both on Live all the time, with no problems. It continues to work even when I come over and hook my 360 into a laptop and get on over it's wireless.
tl;dr router doesn't like two 360s staying connected, possible settings i should look into?
edit: yes i am aware the NR041 is listed as incompatible on the Xbox website but i've been using it just fine with both an OXbox and the 360 and even one of the router's firmware updates mentioned that it fixed compatibility with Xbox Live.
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Unfortunately it's starting to look like I'll just need to buy a new router