I first went to get on Xbox Live with my new machine today, and got an error saying that max MTU, or max transfer unit, was too low - everything else with the connection was fine

I googled it and said that to usually fix this problem, it's best to go manually change the settings on your router to where it will allow a higher MTU (Xbox Live dictates a minimum of 1364), but I was just attempting to connect straight from the port out of the wall.

Is this just my apartment complex putting some setting on the MTU rate so a bunch of people don't get on online games and slow everybody else's connection way down? If so, is there anything I can do about it? Is there anything I can do, period? Without wireless I mean - I guess if it comes to that, it comes to that, but I'd like to figure out a way to get around this straight from the wall, it fits what we have right now better.

i wanna get on live

please help out a non-techie

9/22/2007 12:35:36 AM

definitely don't want to be a bummer... but if you followed those suggestions you found... it really does sound like it's something to do w your apt. what complex are you living in?

9/22/2007 4:04:24 AM

Centennial Village, good sir

9/22/2007 8:16:48 AM

i only asked bc if u were in my complex then i could have told you the network wasnt the problem. wish i could help more man

9/22/2007 4:47:07 PM

anybody else have any ideas?

9/23/2007 1:55:32 PM

having the same problem on campus, but the guy in the room next door can use xbox live just fine.

12/10/2007 9:05:27 PM

Sorry to be a bummer, but I know a few people with the same problem in College Inn, and there's no fixing it there either.

12/10/2007 10:32:51 PM

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840419

If you reduce MTU fragments they must all transmit for the packet to be considered "received."

Do you get free internet from your apartment complex or go through an ISP?

It's been my experience that whenever people are experiencing MTU issues it's normally because too many people are hogging bandwidth.

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 9:40 AM. Reason : packets]

12/11/2007 9:40:07 AM

^^^ well thats because you didn't register your console with resnet
http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet/register/register.php

12/11/2007 10:21:11 AM

yeah, i realized that like 20 minutes later, thanks though.

12/11/2007 1:51:50 PM