Lag on 360 Live

[guppycane]

So Im new to Xbox and playing online in general. I was wondering what causes Lag and how to prevent it in Xbox Live. My hookup is through router with high speed cable internet. I use an ethernet cable from the router to the 360, and wireless to the laptop.

The only game I play is Fight Night. My cpu says my connection is excellent, if I have the internet up on my CPU can that cause Lag on the 360?

Thanks for the help.

[ThaGenecyst]

Re: Lag on 360 Live

if u have an excellent connection but still experiencing lag, it's more than likely that it's not your fault... sometimes it's the game... or the person ur playing with... i used to lag sometimes in HALO 2 cuz 1 person's connection was just not up to par with the rest of us. Other times when i used to try and play NBA Live 05 with a friend on xbox live who had basically the same connection as me, it would lag also.

[guppycane]

Re: Lag on 360 Live

if im downloading something on my CPU will that effect the speed of the 360 or not. I would guess yes, but Im not sure b/c of using the router.

[DXZeke]

Re: Lag on 360 Live

if im downloading something on my CPU will that effect the speed of the 360 or not. I would guess yes, but Im not sure b/c of using the router.

Yes it will since both your PC and the 360 are grabbing at the same Internet connection (aka bandwidth) speed. So basically if you have a 2 meg interneet connection and you're downloading a file at say 1meg a second, then the 360 only has 1 meg to grab from, not the 2...

Then you take connections like say, DSL that's 700k... if you are downloading a file at say even half that rate, then the 360 is only grabbing at half that.

I hope that answers your question.

So, in other words, don't try and download or do to much on your network if you're using your 360... if someone else is using a CPU webbrowsing or such you won't notice much for issues.... just any hard downlaoding, that's where you'll possibly see some noticable issues.

[guppycane]

Re: Lag on 360 Live

thanks for the info, guess I gotta stop w/the torrents.