Zathras Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 A friend (B1G D) got his Xbox all hooked up last night and we (myself and Kain Rising) were playing PGR2 fine. Then we switched to some Terrorist Hunt RS3 and Midnight Rogue joined us. The weird thing was MR and BD couldn't hear each other. Kain and I could hear everyone fine. First we switched out hosts and had them reboot their boxes - still silent between them. Then we had B1G D host and MR couldn't join the session. MR rebooted his cable router and BD hooked his xbox up behind his firewall and one of those worked (should have only done one at a time to see what exactly did it). I wouldn't think it would be a firewall issue because we were able to talk to him fine... Has anyone run into this before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 Yeah a bunch of us has had this happen in a variety of games. Tetris, Live Voice Chat, Rainbow six, links and so forth capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted November 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 At one point I thought it could have just been a network problem between their two PCs if it was peer to peer connection perhaps. But the firewall/reboot thing fixed it so i'm sure further testing will ensue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Monkey Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 I know that if bandwidth becomes constrained, many games are designed to degrade/eliminate voice channels to protect the gameplay. I figured it would handle them all equally, but it may target individual connections. I've also heard that client/server games may use peer-to-peer voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted November 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 I think you are right on both points the peer to peer voice and it will kick down voice before game data. As far as connection they were both listed as 3 stars in the connection column though. One dipped to two for a few minutes but I know I've played and talked to people with a 1 before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Monkey Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 Well, three stars might be the quality of their connection to you, but not to all other nodes in the network. Some router out there might have been choking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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