xbox live extremely slow?

I've been using xbox live to play games online for nearly a year now and it's been fine, but for a few weeks now everything seems to have come to a standstill.

Marketplace takes ages to load up any info, it takes a while to sign in, but the worst problem is trying to play games online. It takes AGES to find a game on halo 3 (4+ minutes) and when I eventually do get in, it's a laggy unplayable mess. For me, Halo 3 used to have no lag and took no time to get into a game. Gears of War stays on the loading screen for ages and Bomberman Live just says connection timed out.

I live in Scotland and I'm on a 1MB Virgin Media adsl connection and on all the tests my NAT is open. I'm connecting through a router (****** F5D7633-4) and have forwarded the ports 3074 TCP and UDP and 88 UDP but when doing this I wasn't sure if the server IP address was the router address on the 360 address.

Can anybody help me?? I really need this sorted cos I can't bear it and if it stays like this for long I'm gonna sell my 360 and build a gaming pc.

Cheers

lol go for the gaming pc... 360 just wasn't built for the next generation... it was rushed and now we're all paying the price:(penguino726

Its has nothing to do with the 360!

Maybe your internet provider is having issues with the servers over there.xDragon47x

Yeah that's what I was thinking but there was a promotion over here involving that company. Sign up and get a years free xbox live I think it was so I dunno about that...

its most likey because of the new update..ive noticed that it lags to man but im sure after the update that im told is on the 4 of dec everything will be fine...now excuse me im going back to mass effect :)

o one more thing you've prob seen that theres been a few connecting issues becasue of live.. they wouldent of been doing thos if they weren fixing or updating :) enjoy

can someone help me

The connection has gotten slower recently, I've noticed it here in New Zealand, am sure its worse considering New Zealands internet has been absolute rubbish for years.

Its NOT your ISP.

It is most likely overloaded services concerning the 360 which is affecting gameplay for all live users.

@ hockeyfan37

To host games on XBox Live, you MUST have an open NAT. Moderate and Strict NATs do not allow for hosting on the 360 system.

If your friends don't have an open NAT they cannot host, it has nothing to do with your connection...

Alternately if your conection is up for hosting, ensure you have the correct ports opened and you should be good to go.