Xbox 360 hard wired to Airport extreme

What kind of modem are you using?

If you haven't done so already, make sure you have the correct ports open for Xbox Live.

Go to "Advanced > Port Mapping" and add these ports:

UDP: 3074,53,88
TCP: 3074,53

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can you let me know if this works as I'm thinking about buying a time capsule this weekend!

Those are just common ports for easy access. Ignore that and enter the ports I mentioned before and the IP address of Xbox 360.

Public UDP Port(s): 3074,53,88
Public TCP Port(s): 3074,53
Private IP Address: your.xbox.360.addresss
Private UDP Port(s): 3074,53,88
Private TCP Port(s): 3074,53

That is how I have mine setup and I don't get any disconnects while playing online.

I have my XBox360 hardwired to an Airport Extreme (on cable internet with a Motorola cablemodem). I only have port 3074 set up for port forwarding, because that is the port that "unexpected" connections from the outside (ie from devices that you didn't initiate a connection with) arrive at that have to be passed on to your XBox. Our XBox360 would be on live for 5-10 hours/week and we don't have dropouts or failure to voice chat, receive game invites, etc.

The other ports that Microsoft lists in their knowledgebase article (53, 88, 80) are all used such that the connection (to any particular external IP address) is always initiated by the XBox and hence the return traffic from that external machine will pass back to the XBox360 automatically with any normal NAT device like an Airport Extreme.

Certainly nothing wrong with the advice in the previous post, but you might find it works just as well with only port 3074 forwarded (both TCP and UDP). Try both - make sure you try voice chat and sending/receiving game invitations, as well as the normal connectivity test in the XBox360 Dashboard - and go with whichever you feel happy with 🙂

Interesting, I will have to give that a try as well. The less ports open the better. Thanks!

Hello!

I too am having issues with my xbox 360 hard-wired to an airport extreme base station. I've tried setting the public and private UDP/TCP port mappings to 3074, manually giving the Xbox360 an IP address, and even DHCP Reserving said IP address in the Airport Utility. Still though, my xbox360 does not connect to xbox live on start up. I have to either restart the xbox360, or "Test Xbox Live Connection" in order to connect. It is such a pain!!

Does anyone else have xbox live connection issues when starting up the console?

-Scott

If you are manually configuring the XBox360 to have a specific IP address (ie setting an IP address in the XBox360 dashboard), you also have to specifically add the DNS server to the XBox360 dashboard setup. That is, if you are setting a Manual IP address on the 360 you cannot successfully leave the DNS server setting on it as automatic/DHCP.

I've definitely seen that with mine, and it should be fine if you set everything on the 360 as manual (ie IP address, netmask, gateway, DNS server) or everything as automatic; anything half-way and the 360 seems to get it wrong, unless you do the Test XBox Live Connection every time you start up, as you have found.

I opened the same port and just reserved an ip address for the mac address of my 360 so it picks that ip address using dhcp. That seems to work fine.

I just got the new Extreme today and I am happy with it, with the exception of its Xbox 360 issues. I am kinda of ****** though, I had the Dlink DGL-4300 gaming router that I bought 3 years ago. I was having A LOT of lag and especially when I was hosting games in CODwaw. I have the Verizon FIOs with 20MB dl and 5MB ul, I don't think I should suffer from lag. I bypassed my router last night and ran the PPPoe wire into the 360 and set it up that way. Game ran AWSOME, felt like I was playing on LAN. After my 3rd game with the airport extreme (wired as well) I knew I was hosting and had lag?? Why am I having this issue with my router?

Ok, I think I got it (have your TV and 360 on while doing this)
-Go to Airport Utility
-Manual Configure
-Internet Icon
-DHCP Icon
-On the bottom you'll see a + click it
-It will ask for Description, I used Xbox 360
-Reserve address by MAC address should be highlighted under it
-Click "Continue"
-On this page you will put in your Xbox's MAC address (why your TV and Xbox should be on) under configre network, on your 360, go to additional settings and advanced settings, there you will find your "Wired MAC Address"
-back to airport utility type your MAC address in there and pick a IP for your Xbox to be assigned.
-After this your still under the "internet icon" on airport utility click NAT
-click "enable default host", this is where you will put your Xbox's assigned IP you just gave it.

Doing this will assign your Xbox a IP and put all major traffic to it FIRST, kinda like priority over all network traffic, where you want it anyways. Email me if you have any issues, I hope I can help a few people out.

-Paul

FWIW, my sons' XBox 360 Elite is hardwired to a Netgear 8-port Gigabit ethernet switch which is connected to an AirPort Express which extends my 5 GHz 802.11n AirPort Extreme.

And other than reserving an IP address for the XBox, I never had to do any Port Mapping for it. XBox Live worked fine.