Xbox Live Over ICS Problems

Because the xbox 360 wifi adapers are ~£60 i connect my 360 through my
laptop (Win XP SP2) which then connects to my wifi router. When playing
online the connection drops out for no apparant reason. My NAT is
moderate (i got it open once and it worked fine but reverted to moderate
when i rebooted!?) but i cannot goet it open whatever I do. I have
forwarded the ports and turned UPnP on but still no improvement.

Anyone have any ideas to what i can do to fix this?


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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:35:02 -0500, bremerenator
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>Because the xbox 360 wifi adapers are ~£60 i connect my 360 through my
>laptop (Win XP SP2) which then connects to my wifi router. When playing
>online the connection drops out for no apparant reason. My NAT is
>moderate (i got it open once and it worked fine but reverted to moderate
>when i rebooted!?) but i cannot goet it open whatever I do. I have
>forwarded the ports and turned UPnP on but still no improvement.
>
>Anyone have any ideas to what i can do to fix this?

What does "moderate" mean? Are you using ICS?
<http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/connecttolive/xbox360/connectionmethods/windowsics.htm>

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> Anyone have any ideas to what i can do to fix this?

Disable power management on the wifi card in the laptop? If you're going to
use it as a 'server' in this manner then it needs to keep that card running,
not going into power saving mode.

Another thing to try, open a CMD prompt and use ping -t to keep the link
active. Pick your gateway IP address for it, as in "ping -t 192.168.1.1"

I have no idea what 'moderate' means, i assume it's another made-up
microsoft word.
And yes i am using ICS.


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bremerenator wrote:
> I have no idea what 'moderate' means, i assume it's another made-up
> microsoft word.
> And yes i am using ICS.
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"Moderate"
<http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/connecttolive/xbox360/connectionmethods/troubleshootliveconnection-testnat.htm>
You said you have opened the ports in your router but have you
opened the same ports in your ICF firewall?