Unable to play on Xbox LIVE with a friend living near by.

Basically the problem occurs with a friend of mine who lives barely a mile away from me. It doesn't matter what game we try to play. If one of us is the lobby leader then the other is unable to join the game. The only way we're ever able to play together is when we get another person to create the lobby so we can both join, or if we both hop into a random public game. We can't get into a party chat if one of us is the leader, either. It wasn't much of a problem until she got RE5 which we wanted to play together, but we really can't because it's only 2 player co-op (excluding versus) so we're unable to connect to each other.

I don't know the first thing about system/router settings and have no idea how I can find out. Can anyone help me by telling me what the problem is and how I can fix it, or redirect me to a source of information that can give me the answers I need?

Sounds like it could be your NAT settings, one or both of you may not have your NAT set to Open.

Do a search on google with your modem/router name and include the word NATor there might be some pple on here that know.

yeah this happens to me 2. ive tried the NAT settings notihng changes. i cant with barly anyone that lives in my whole city. i live toledo ohio

Woah... My 24" monitor in 1080p from 3 feet away makes you small text look likereally small text :P

I think I just killed my eyesight?

Basically the problem occurs with a friend of mine who lives barely a mile away from me. It doesn't matter what game we try to play. If one of us is the lobby leader then the other is unable to join the game. The only way we're ever able to play together is when we get another person to create the lobby so we can both join, or if we both hop into a random public game. We can't get into a party chat if one of us is the leader, either. It wasn't much of a problem until she got RE5 which we wanted to play together, but we really can't because it's only 2 player co-op (excluding versus) so we're unable to connect to each other.

I don't know the first thing about system/router settings and have no idea how I can find out. Can anyone help me by telling me what the problem is and how I can fix it, or redirect me to a source of information that can give me the answers I need?

Kasumi_Chii

To answer though... go to the system tab and run the Xbox Live test and see what it says about your connection (NAT)... whether open or restricted...

Okay, so I accessed a connection test through system settings, network settings and choosing to Test Xbox LIVE connection. However, these are the only results it gave me -

Network: Connected
Internet: Connected
Xbox LIVE: Connected

As you can see, it didn't tell me anything about my NAT. I know that it used to show it back on the old dashboard, but I don't know how to go about finding out on the new one. =/