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Forums - Microsoft - Is it just Me or has There been a Decline in the Quality of XBOX Live?

bokvamme on 16 December 2008
nightsurge said:

I wonder if these issues are isolated by regions? In the midwest (Indiana, so actually more Central US), neither myself nor any of my friends on Live (which are mostly from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Kentucky) have experienced these Netflix issues or slowness. I experienced slowness and occasional 20 second freezes during the first week after the NXE was released, but after that I have not had any issues.

I've got 1.5mbit/1.5mbit shdsl.

I'm from Norway.

 

 



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megaman2 on 16 December 2008
mrstickball said:
Dash of Destruction is coming to XBLA free this week. Bomberman LIVE is getting a heavy discount...And that's just the past 2 days.

If anything, MS is trying to ensure that XBL is even usable during Christmas, because the past 2 have been bad because MS hasn't upgraded servers a whole lot...Maybe they know that a Fable 2 demo would swamp the Christmas servers?

XBL quality is fine. A bad week on XBL is the best week on PSN or WiiWare , so why worry?

That was out of order Mrstickball hating on a console you don't own lol. The psn network has much more stable servers we all know what happened last christmans and prince of persia is on the psn store, so it seems Xbox live is playing catch up to the Psn network. And did I mention Psn is free!

 



Seece on 16 December 2008
Pharaoh said:

@mrstickball

just go read the front page on vgchartz that should convince you that you're an idiot. They have articles on new releases in PSN and XBL. Microsoft servers suck anyways, they are slower and easily disconnected, that's why I don't pay for Live and only play on PSN. Plus the fact that you don't pay Microsoft for services like that.

 

You're gonna get banned buddy, what gave you the bright idea to call a moderator an idiot eh?



 

kanariya on 16 December 2008

I think he wants to see if some mods like to abuse their power.



WiiBox3 on 16 December 2008
nightsurge said:

Maybe it could be a bottle neck somewhere, there might be a possiblity that M$ routs different parts of the country through differen servers.

That would be my guess. Although, if the servers for the west coast are having issues, you'd think they would be working harder to improve it. Or it could just be your Xbox for some reason. I know my first Xbox was really odd where every now and then my NAT would be Strict for no reason, or I would not be able to connect to LIVE.. Then I would just run the "Test Xbox Live Connection" and it would fix everything. Random, right?

 

I'll give it a try, but I'm not sure if that will fix it. I have been connected to LIVE when I had the Netflix problems. But I will still give it a try tonight.



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non-gravity on 16 December 2008

All those avatars make me puke



tmbh on 16 December 2008

THIS IS THE UK SITE (RIGHT-CLICK and view image)



THIS IS THE US SITE (RIGHT-CLICK and view image)

 

US has a callender of events/competitions in the bottom right.

 

Main menu also offers many more options.

 



nightsurge on 16 December 2008
bokvamme said:
nightsurge said:

I wonder if these issues are isolated by regions? In the midwest (Indiana, so actually more Central US), neither myself nor any of my friends on Live (which are mostly from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Kentucky) have experienced these Netflix issues or slowness. I experienced slowness and occasional 20 second freezes during the first week after the NXE was released, but after that I have not had any issues.

I've got 1.5mbit/1.5mbit shdsl.

I'm from Norway.

 

 

That could be why.  Small region with a slow internet connection.

@Wiibox3
I didn't mean to suggest that as a fix for your problem, just giving an example of a random isolated issue a 360 can have.  Oh and you have to be connected to XBL to use Netflix, but I'm sure you know that.



mysticD on 17 December 2008
megaman2 said:
mrstickball said:
Dash of Destruction is coming to XBLA free this week. Bomberman LIVE is getting a heavy discount...And that's just the past 2 days.

If anything, MS is trying to ensure that XBL is even usable during Christmas, because the past 2 have been bad because MS hasn't upgraded servers a whole lot...Maybe they know that a Fable 2 demo would swamp the Christmas servers?

XBL quality is fine. A bad week on XBL is the best week on PSN or WiiWare , so why worry?

That was out of order Mrstickball hating on a console you don't own lol. The psn network has much more stable servers we all know what happened last christmans and prince of persia is on the psn store, so it seems Xbox live is playing catch up to the Psn network. And did I mention Psn is free!

 

You forgot to tell him about PSN HOME!!  It's the future of on-line gaming and will put Live to shame go read all the glowing review and comments about HOME!!  Oh wait, about glowing review, like all PS3 hype please apply "wait till xxxx date" protocal before checking out the review because PS3 take time to reach full potential.

 



kjj4t9rdad on 18 December 2008
mysticD said:
megaman2 said:
mrstickball said:
Dash of Destruction is coming to XBLA free this week. Bomberman LIVE is getting a heavy discount...And that's just the past 2 days.

If anything, MS is trying to ensure that XBL is even usable during Christmas, because the past 2 have been bad because MS hasn't upgraded servers a whole lot...Maybe they know that a Fable 2 demo would swamp the Christmas servers?

XBL quality is fine. A bad week on XBL is the best week on PSN or WiiWare , so why worry?

That was out of order Mrstickball hating on a console you don't own lol. The psn network has much more stable servers we all know what happened last christmans and prince of persia is on the psn store, so it seems Xbox live is playing catch up to the Psn network. And did I mention Psn is free!

 

You forgot to tell him about PSN HOME!!  It's the future of on-line gaming and will put Live to shame go read all the glowing review and comments about HOME!!  Oh wait, about glowing review, like all PS3 hype please apply "wait till xxxx date" protocal before checking out the review because PS3 take time to reach full potential.

 

It is just that Sony actually tests the stuff they release unlike M$.