Unable to host co-op/online games in Gears of War


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I posted a week or two back about issues with media sharing. That was resolved by unchecking a firewall driver in my connections properties. Somehow, I think it is still plauging me. As the topic says, I am unable to host co-op/custom games through Xbox Live. I have never really had problems joining games so I don't think its my NAT (I'll check what it is and report back).

It keeps telling me I have some firewall enabled, but I can't find one anywhere. I have uninstalled Zone Alarm one of my computers, none of them have the windows firewall at the moment, and the other firewall on a different computer, shouldn't be causing issues after I unchechked a box for a driver in my connections properties for some Trend Micro Firewall (there was a checkbox about 3 up from TCP/IP Settings).

Anything that could be a more common issue that is causing these problems? Thanks, if you need anymore information just ask.

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you gotta open the ports manually or set the router in uPnP mode so that the 360 can open the ports it needs.

I forgot to mention that I already have the Xbox's IP in my router's DMZ. UPnP is already enabled to my knowledge.

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Well when I was looking in my router, I did find that the router's firewall was on, but apparently that hasn't affected me hosting in other games before. I didn't have time to disable it, then retry GoW but I will be able too tomorrow, until then nothing else to report on. Thanks for the suggestions so far.

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Did you get this messege right after the most recent update? My friend had the same problem after the first major update and justed waited the problem out. It was all fine for a while and then the new update came and it happened again.

Maybe you should power cycle the router. That's really all I can think of.

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Hmm, well this problem really just boggles me, can there be some setting on the xbox that is causing this? Just wondering if having it configure itself (automatically) instead of me putting in info manually could be causing issues with the DMZ.

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Unplug everything.

Try a direct connection from your Cable or DSL modem (or whatever you have) to the 360.

Then, if all goes well, and you can host games, connect the 360 through the router to your modem.

If everything is still fine and dandy, and you still can host games, start connecting each of the computers. One by one of course.

And see what happens!

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As long as your router always assigns the same ip to your 360 and that ip is in dmz, there really cant be any issues with it being a router problem. You will easily find out if it is only in gears if you try hosting / joining a load of random matches in other games, if they all work then its not a router problem...

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Well plugging directly into the router isn't much of an option. The rest of my family is constantly using the net, and never wants to give me an hour to fix something. I have been playing Gears for a while online (joining that is), and even joined some custom matches made by friends so if Seabroo, that helps you figure this out there it is.

Skiver: Right now I am pretty sure it get's its IP automatically.

I am going to check this: http://forums.xbox.com/9673215/ShowPost.aspx and try just about everything in there, and get back to you guys hopefully today or tomorrow. Thanks for the help so far.

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Once again sorry to double post but I went through that whole link, set everything to manual, Live/Media connection works but I still get a Strict NAT setting. I am starting to think it may be my modem, but if its firewall is off, what else can we do?

Edit: Here, this is from a while back when I was still trying to mess with configuring with the modem. I don't know why any of it should matter when the modems firewall is set to off.

http://forums.techguy.org/networking/49422...tml#post3907963

Also, if anybody checked that windstream link I posted above, I tried doing a modem reboot from that page, but now it says I do not have the right version of a SpeedStream Siemens 4200 router. I thought I had the latest firmware for it, or maybe too new of a version for the site?

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