Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

[mKoz26]

Is it possible to have two 360s on Xbox Live at once (running on the same internet connection)? I've gotten varied responses searching the internet.

If anyone has done this in the past, I'd love to hear how you managed it.

Thanks

[Sandman42]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

I used to have a problem with one Xbox always getting signed out of Live, but after playing around with my router I fixed it. I had one Xbox set up through Port Forwarding with the ports the 360 requires opened, and I put the other one on the DMZ of the router. Haven't had any problem since.

I think it depends on the router also though. As I've read of people getting both to connect without doing anything with the router.

[mKoz26]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

I'll try that out.


If anyone has an alternate method, just in case that doesn't work, I'm all ears.

[bergie56]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

I used to have a problem with one Xbox always getting signed out of Live, but after playing around with my router I fixed it. I had one Xbox set up through Port Forwarding with the ports the 360 requires opened, and I put the other one on the DMZ of the router. Haven't had any problem since.

I think it depends on the router also though. As I've read of people getting both to connect without doing anything with the router.

I had the same issue and was able to fix the problem by updating the firmware of my router and enabling UPnP on my router. I tried a lot of different guides and what not as well and had a hard time getting anything to work until I enabled that setting. It's worked well for my roommate and I ever since.

[RockinDaMike]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

I have at some points have 3 xbox's on xbox live at once. Mine, my roommates and my bro, and we play cod together. We'll have someone log out issues at times but for the most part we can play together smoothly. I have a d link gaming router and I never really to had to tweak anything.

[23]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

I cant do it.. .my live acct signs out on one and i have to recover it to use it again on that same 360 if im signed in the other one

[FlyingFinn]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

I cant do it.. .my live acct signs out on one and i have to recover it to use it again on that same 360 if im signed in the other one

You can have 2 Xboxes on LIVE in the house, but you can only be signed into your account on 1 Xbox at a time.

[23]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

You can have 2 Xboxes on LIVE in the house, but you can only be signed into your account on 1 Xbox at a time.

Well said... I've had no reason to do that since I game alone but I do think thats pretty cool

[Solidice]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

It's possible. I did it for a few years with my 360 and a friends 360 who didn't have broadband at home so he just left his 360 at my house. we didn't have any problems with one signing out the other though and didn't have to change anything in the router either, so I'm not sure what to say. at one point, we actually had 4 360 online at once(left 4 dead). obviously, like some other have said, you can't have the same account online at the same time on multiple systems.

It was a Linksys router FWIW.

[Beantown]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

One of my buddies and I have done this a couple of times once Black Ops came out. I have two TVs in my room, so he'd bring his 360 over and we could both play and have our own TV. I used wireless, he hooked his up directly and we never even had any lag.

[sb24]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

It's possible. I did it for a few years with my 360 and a friends 360 who didn't have broadband at home so he just left his 360 at my house. we didn't have any problems with one signing out the other though and didn't have to change anything in the router either, so I'm not sure what to say. at one point, we actually had 4 360 online at once(left 4 dead). obviously, like some other have said, you can't have the same account online at the same time on multiple systems.

It was a Linksys router FWIW.

This. I feel like I am missing something here because I have done this before without any issues what so ever. Now that I think of I have used it with 2 different routers as well with no issues (Belkin and Linksys).

[sportsdude]

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I am currently dealing with this issue. My 360 is downstairs, my roommate's is in his room. We have no problems playing at the same time, except for the lag. I do not notice any but my roommate is constantly complaining about input delay and lag when we both hop on BFBC2 or Reach. We've tried every solution we can think of but he insists there's still a problem. Part of me thinks he's just seeing **** or raging when he has a bad game, but he's consistent with his criticism so maybe there is a problem after all.

Also, spoke with somebody from our ISP who had the same issue and that person said there's no way to hook up two 360s on live at the same time without some kind of lag.

[Solidice]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

I am currently dealing with this issue. My 360 is downstairs, my roommate's is in his room. We have no problems playing at the same time, except for the lag. I do not notice any but my roommate is constantly complaining about input delay and lag when we both hop on BFBC2 or Reach. We've tried every solution we can think of but he insists there's still a problem. Part of me thinks he's just seeing **** or raging when he has a bad game, but he's consistent with his criticism so maybe there is a problem after all.

Also, spoke with somebody from our ISP who had the same issue and that person said there's no way to hook up two 360s on live at the same time without some kind of lag.

it depends on the ISP. if it's just DSL or low-end cable internet, you could see some lag here and there(with more than 1 360 in use at once). the bandwith just may not be big enough for all that data at once. if you have FiOS or some higher end cable service, you shouldn't seen any thing different.

[Altimus]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

One of my buddies and I have done this a couple of times once Black Ops came out. I have two TVs in my room, so he'd bring his 360 over and we could both play and have our own TV. I used wireless, he hooked his up directly and we never even had any lag.

Same. Did this for COD 4.

[sportsdude]

Re: Two 360s on Xbox Live at once?

it depends on the ISP. if it's just DSL or low-end cable internet, you could see some lag here and there(with more than 1 360 in use at once). the bandwith just may not be big enough for all that data at once. if you have FiOS or some higher end cable service, you shouldn't seen any thing different.

we have WoW (Wide Open West). Supposedly their top settings, too. Like I said, I have not noticed a difference from the times I play by myself online and from the times my roommate joins me in a party. He says it's noticeable, but I think part of him is just raging because he's not as good at the 360 version as he is the PS3 version (he has copies for both systems).