Comments on: Halo 3’s Fixed IP Problem

By: Sion

Sion — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:49:22 +0000

“Maybe the solution is to have router dole out a reserved IP address based on the MAC address of the Xbox?

Then the Xbox doesn’t see it as Static… HTH, J.”

How do I exactly go about doing that. I see it worked for the other guy. I have a Linksys router. I can’t figure out how to do that. Any help please?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:09 +0000

It is probably the disc. I had the same problem. Bungie sold some discs after the release that was not 100% working.. So all you need to do is go to the store where you bought the disk and get a new one. Atleast that’s what I did.

Good luck!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:05:13 +0000

I’d also like an answer to this. Help!!???

By: Alex Barberi

Alex Barberi — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:38:55 +0000

I’m having the exact same problem as Steve here. What the heck is going on? This is so annoying!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:00:12 +0000

Hey all:

New problem, starting happening once I upgraded to the new patch level (ver 1.1 that is forced on you when you start Halo 3).

I can connect to Live.
I can login to the game.
I get to see my opponents.
Once it comes time to choose a game variant (example, Slayer on Construct), it cycles through three variants and kicks me out again.

Any thoughts? Support is telling me it must be the port issue, but this would have been a problem before the upgrade too. I am also able to play any other game on-line, just not this one.

Thanks,

Steve

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:30:01 +0000

Yes, awesome indeed!!! I followed your suggestion just as Collin did and my XBox360 shows Open NAT! Thanks so much, this was driving me crazy!

By: Collin

Collin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:57:40 +0000

Awesome suggestion!

I went into the DD-WRT settings, Administration, Services, then the DHCP Server grouping and set a static lease for my XBox 360’s MAC address like you said (using the same IP address I set with my port forwards). I set my 360 back to Automatic IP address leasing, and gave it a hostname of “XBOX360″ — if that has any effect. After saving the settings to my router, and saving and rebooting my console like before, it picks up the static lease right away with Halo 3 and has no trouble getting on Live with a full “Open” NAT type.

Thanks again for your assistance! I hope that others who may run into this problem will find your solution helpful, as well.

By: Jonathan Wrigley

Jonathan Wrigley — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:09:14 +0000

Maybe the solution is to have router dole out a reserved IP address based on the MAC address of the Xbox?

Then the Xbox doesn’t see it as Static… HTH, J.