My fix for halo co-op online

Games Other Halo
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please read all the way to the bottom otherwise you’re going to screw up your live/internet.
you should have some technical understanding of your router, ip, and internal ip.

I like many of you, have really fast internet. Comcast cable to be exact. no problems with online co-op in any halo game till now. I searched this forum for a solution, and when no one had one. I just used common sense to make my experience as bearable as possible.

it now runs flawless.

okay. so since I’m the host. I decided i had two things to do to make the experience better.

1.open my routers NAT for my xbox
2.clear all ports on my router for my xbox

you can google both of them. it’s a little different for every router.

http://www.halownage.com/halo-3-forum-discussion/9045-how-open-your-nat.html
i followed these two links for my nat,

and then i just forwarded ports. because I’ve done it for pc games. the kicker is you have to use the ip that you set your xbox too. in addition, you have to understand your gateway ip is different then your xbox ip.

my online experience has zero lag now. hope this helps all of you capable of following these steps.

p.s. im not sure what the nat really does, so forwarding those ports might very well have been overkill. maybe just try the nat first and see how it plays out

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this really didn’t help anyone? lamecake

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This was on Bungie’s website and I think most people know about ports, but it’s useful.

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it just seems like a new coop is laggy thread is made every hour. this fixed it for me, so i’m hoping people can try this instead of posting and getting the same “your internet is crap” sh-peel

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Ok, can anyone else confirm that the solution in this thread does work?

Because before I start changing my connection settings, it would be nice to know if a few of you guys have been successful using this method.

So if you are reading this now, have experienced COOP-lag and tried the solution suggested in this thread, it would be really nice if you could give some feedback here.

Thank you in advance!

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I have a static ip set up and the ports forwarded for xbox. I have had them like this for a while now because I used to play diablo 2 and would have to change my mac address if I got temp banned. It hasn’t made a difference with the lag on halo cea co-op. It may have something to do with connection but thats not the whole problem. I really hope they decide to fix this part of the game because it is completely broken right now.