Halo 3 Planet

I think pretty much everyone has been suffering from this Xbox Live hiccup, and at this point, I don’t believe there is a cure-all solution to the situation (it seems to be a server capacity issue on Microsofts part).  It’s caused a lot of commotion across the internet, a lot of people to at least pretend to cancel their account, and has even caused a class action lawsuit against Xbox Live (don’t see that going anywhere though).

However, we have found a few things that have helped us play [tag]Halo 3[/tag] (among other titles such as Call of Duty 4) during the holiday season. You may want to at least TRY some of these things before you give up hope of playing online.

• Clear your [tag]Xbox 360 Cache[/tag] - It’s really simple to do. In the Xbox 360 Dashboard, go to the System Blade, and then go to memory. While hovering over the Hard drive, press “Y”. When brought to the next screen, DO NOT SELECT EITHER OPTION, but instead enter in the following combination: X, X, Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X, X. If entered correctly, you should be able to clear your 360’s cache.
• If you’re being disconnected from games, or if you’re unable to join games and invite players to your games, you might want to try a real simple fix that has worked a few times for us. While in Halo 3 (lobby/menu/anywhere…) Click your Guide button, and Press X to sign out. Once signed out, sign back in. Give it a moment to load your settings and friends list. For some reason this seems to cure problems with not being able to invite friends 1 out of 3 times.
• Call 1-800-4-MyXbox. I’d use this one as a last resort. All of Xbox support representatives seem to actually have very little knowledge about the 360, or [tag]Xbox Live[/tag]. Instead, they sound like they’re just reading standard responses from a script 99.9% of the time. That said, they usually can help you with some basic problems you might be encountering. I personally haven’t been helped by them, but who knows… maybe you’ll find out that your NAT settings aren’t set to Open or something…
• Speaking of NAT, make sure your [tag]NAT[/tag] is set to OPEN! You can find out if your NAT is set to open by running a network test from the System blade. If its status is set otherwise, you’ll need to find out how to properly configure your network (or you’ll need to check to see if you’re even running on compatible hardware).

Other than that, you’re basically just going to have to wait it out. If you’ve found that anything else has worked for you, please be sure to post your findings here!

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