Xbox live help

[Winin]

I got my brother an xbox360 so we could play together, but he is in Japan.

I saw him online this morning, but when we tried to chat or invite each other to games, it wouldn't connect "cannot establish connection" or somesuch.

He has a US xbox, so region encoding shouldn't be a problem. Could they be blocking his IP since it is in Japan? Anyone have any clues how to fix it? Google search didn't bring up anything useful.

Certainly there must be military folks who have played xbox overseas with their friends back home?

Thanks,
--Winin

[Aberrant]

Where is his billing credit card located? If that is Japan it might block him, even though it is a US xbox.

My brother and I were having trouble connecting for voice chat, and we live about 20 minutes from each other. I ended up having to change a setting in my router, and it cleared it up. I can't recall offhand what it was, but can check tonight.

[GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth)]

This site has info on router settings for XBox 360 Live and just about every other thing:

www.portforward.com/


Very handy to bookmark.

[Winin]

Cool, thanks for the tips. I forwarded him the info.