XBOX 360 internet playing up

[bigdods]

I've been trying to help out a friend who is having XBOX 360 Live problems, here is the summary:

Netgear DG834GT router
AOL Internet
Wired connection from XBOX to Router
PC wired connection to router
Laptop wireless connection to router
Router is using NAT and DHCP

XBOX gets its address automatically from the router via DHCP and works ok for 10 minutes on Live. It then suddenly loses the connection. When I check the IP address on the xbox it has changed. It was 192.168.0.5 (DHCP) but now it has 169.something and it wont connect. the AOL IP address is 92.something so its not picking up a 'real' address from AOL.

Rebooting the router seems to fix the problem. Not sure if rebooting the xbox would also fixed the problem, havent tried that yet.

Neither of the PCs has any problem and carry on working normally. PC's are only doing google and AOL type stuff so no torrents or anything unusual running.

Anyone have any idea why the xbox is losing its connection and then coming up with the 169. address , I am stumped !

Cheers

Dodsy

[bigdods]

Thanks for the replies. I set it with a fixed IP address, but having looked around the internet it seems there may be some ports that can be opened up so I'll try that and see if it fixes the problem

Can anyone tell me the difference between , strict, moderate and Open NAT and can I change something on the router to make it open ? Or will openeing up the ports do that ?

Cheers

[bigdods]

Silverbullet767 said:

bigdods said:

Thanks for the replies. I set it with a fixed IP address, but having looked around the internet it seems there may be some ports that can be opened up so I'll try that and see if it fixes the problem

Can anyone tell me the difference between , strict, moderate and Open NAT and can I change something on the router to make it open ? Or will openeing up the ports do that ?

Cheers

Opening up the ports will set it to open, follow the link I had posted in my first comment, its specifically for your router and xbox live.

Ok thats good - the page linked to has lots of red x boxes here there should be pics (maybe my connection at fault) but all I need is the port numbers which appear to be 3074 and 88 from that page, so thanks for that. I will go and add them in then see if it fixes everything