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[anazel]

I have an Xbox 360. I usually play Halo 3 and NBA 2K9. Here's my problem. Nobody in the house is using the computers, and I have a secured wireless router. My xbox receives a pretty good signal (3 bars im remembering), and since no other internet machines are being used, no bandwidth is being taken up. Yet, when I play Halo 3, my connection bar is red, and sooner or later i get forced out of the game. In NBA 2k9, it takes forever for me to find a good match, yet when i somehow connect to a match, the game continuously lags, and the message "waiting for opponent" keeps coming up until either my opponent quits or the game just completely lags out with a message saying "the network strength is too poor to continue this game".

Does anyone have some ideas or solutions to this problem? If anyone needs more clarification on the question ill be happy to clarify.

thnx for the help...

[qyhjhua]

The problem is your wireles connection. Starting with 3 Bars is not ideal. You should work at getting that signal strength to max. Walls, the table it is under etc all affect the range and strength of your signal.

Additionally, Cordless phones can cause problems. Try changing your wireless routers channel from the default 6 to channel 1 or channel 11 to seperate your signal from other routers and cordless phones, it may help.

Also in your routers wireless section there should be a much better indicator of signal strength from 1-100%, see if that agrees with your 3 bar strength (3 out of 5 bars would only be 40-60% signal strength)