2 Xboxes 1 router

LiamC · 16 May 2011 at 17:40

I have an Xbox in my room
My Bro has one in his room

We have the Virgin Media 'Superhub' and we can both play online when it comes to Forza 3. However when we try to play zombies online (with other people) It doesn't seem to work. He gets put into 1 lobby and i get put into a different one. Anyone have idea's on how to fix this?

It works when its just us 2 doing a private lobby though.

The Game is Black Ops by the way.

Any ideas?

sniperone · 16 May 2011 at 17:55

Cant see why it doesnt work , i have 2 xbox consoles online at the same time with no probs .

Could be the poor router that you have .

TheVoice · 16 May 2011 at 18:23

It won't just put you in the same lobby itself, one of you has to invite the other.

Doctor McNinja · 16 May 2011 at 20:06

TheVoice said:
It won't just put you in the same lobby itself, one of you has to invite the other.

Assuming this isn't the problem, what are your NAT types?

Sherbs · 16 May 2011 at 23:36

I'd say NAT Types. You'll need to open, not strict or moderate.

Look into port forwarding Xbox Live if you haven't already. You'll need to open the ports up on your router.

Doctor McNinja · 17 May 2011 at 01:05

You can't forward ports to both xboxes though so save someone unnecessarily posting instructions, let us know what your NAT types are and if either of them are moderate or strict, post the model of your router too.

[Darkend]Viper · 17 May 2011 at 07:21

I thought you'd both have to join the same party or your treat as 2 seperate people. I know when I've got 2 ps3's on, if they don't join the party then it'll stick you in random lobbys. And this is with one ps3 open and other moderate nat types.

Alpherah · 17 May 2011 at 08:29

Yup, need both to be in a party together.

Dark_Angel · 17 May 2011 at 09:44

A few years ago we regularly had 3 xboxes on the same router around a friends house on gaming nights - was fine.

dustiestrat · 17 May 2011 at 16:32

me and my brother do this you have to invite the other person to play in your party.

cokecan · 17 May 2011 at 21:03

always had issues with 2 xboxes on my old network. had VM internet and a WRT54GL with tomato installed.

They would both connect to Live ok at the same time but depending on which was turned on first, the other wouldn't be able to use voice chat and would have issues joining games. I had ports setup as well as a DMZ etc but never got it working right

Wombatinahat · 23 May 2011 at 10:30

This issue has been around for a while. There was a new firmware release reletivly recently that should have solved this problem firmware r10. This solved my problem. On top of this you can try making sure plug and play is enabled on the router and set one of the xboxes to auto ip and put a static ip on the other one then forward the ports for the static ip through the router.

Doctor McNinja · 24 May 2011 at 01:45

Wombatinahat said:
This issue has been around for a while. There was a new firmware release reletivly recently that should have solved this problem firmware r10. This solved my problem. On top of this you can try making sure plug and play is enabled on the router and set one of the xboxes to auto ip and put a static ip on the other one then forward the ports for the static ip through the router.

I seem to remember trying this and never being able to get open NAT types on both xboxes at the same time. Whichever was turned on first would get the open NAT and the other would get moderate.