After a hour of resetting all my network hardware and refreshing NAT stuff my copy of Halo 5 won’t connect to the internet. I already downloaded the release day patch and so far i’m only able to play the campaign mode. I’ve tried everything I know to do and I’m giving up at this point unless you guys have any ideas. My Xbox One connection tests are all coming back fine. I have no idea why my copy of halo 5 won’t connect to the internet. I don’t know if someone is blocking the ip address of the arena and warzone stuff for me or what. If they are that’s kinda illegal, don’t know what I can do about it though. I should be charged only $30 for halo 5 if I’m only getting half a game to play.
Have you spoken to your internet service provider about the problem your having?
I figured out what it was, I had to clear the Alternative MAC Address on my xbox one. Hope that helps anyone else with a connection issue like mine.
I’m having the same problems and what’s a MAC address?
A Mac Address is the “physical” address of the device on the network. Here is a snippet from wikipedia about it:
A media access control address (MAC address), also called physical address, is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. MAC addresses are used as a network address for most IEEE 802 network technologies, including Ethernet and WiFi.
Everything that’s connected to the internet has an ip address and a MAC address. It allows data to get to where it needs to be. It’s pretty much how things are identified on networks. Example of an ip address is 74.125.224.72 which is google. A MAC address looks like this 01:23:45:67:89:ab. No two devices on the same network can have the same MAC address or there would be issues. All xbox one’s have the ability to change their MAC addresses to whatever you want however the default setting should be fine for most small networks. It’s still interesting to me that my copy of Halo 5 connected after changing the MAC address. There was nothing on my network with the same address in the first place so there shouldn’t have been any issues. I did play in a Hotel for a while with that same MAC address and I think one of the techie’s from the Hotel did something with my MAC address that affected my local ISP when I got home. Could be just paranoia or bugs in Halo 5 but it does seem awefully fishy to me.