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So I changed internet service providers this week, and upoed my 10mb Down and 1mb Up, to a 15/1.
Well, this week I started getting SERIOUS lag on xbox live since I switched ISP. So I spent most of a day messing with my router settings for port forwarding and Qos, and nothing helped, then I tried connecting my xbox directly to the modem instead of to my router. Didn't help. I was about to give up on the whole ordeal, when I decided to use my semi crappy laptop as a gateway connection, because i knew it could get a full 15/1 though its wifi.
BAM, it fixed it. I was able to play without lag for hours using a wired connection to my laptop using wifi.
So here is my question, WHY am i getting a faster connection to Xbox live through a laptop wirelessly connected, than I am with a wired connection to my modem or router?
The only thing I can come up with is that my ISP is limiting the bandwidth I can use to connect to xbox live. I mean its the same router as i had last week and the same ethernet cords, the only thing that has changed is my ISP and my modem! And i can easly get my full 15/1 speed on all other computers, just not the xbox!
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
Is your NAT open in your router? Xbox Live has problem with NAT.
- 9 years ago
This will be NAT related. Usually you have a setting on your router to set one IP address outside the NAT firewall if your router is not clever enough to see that it is an xbox, your router may be thinking - o look at all those connections coming in some must be attacking I will slow them down, whereas Windows - i.e. your laptop has QoS kind of built in and is better trusted. Your ISP will not be able to identify your xbox live traffic from standard internet use without a lot of faffing as xbox uses UDP not TCP anyway ( its connectionless and doesn't need both ends to shake hands ).
Look at your firewall settings on your router. It has nothing to do with port forwarding - that is where you forward a LOCAL ip-port for example a FTP server out to the "real world" so you could access it at work etc. btw this is port 21 - bit of random information for you there.
Try turning off your router firewall see if that solves the issue TEMPORARILY! then if this does turn off your NAT assigned to the xbox. Failing that get a new router. Linksys
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