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So having a lot of trouble connecting my xbox to the internet.
It doesn't matter what settings I change, I can manually set up the entire network, port forwarding, upnp, DMZ, it does not matter what I do. The Gateway decides to "help me" and views my xbox as Opt...
Did you reset your network settings on your Xbox to dynamic and get's all it's network info from the router. To me it sounds like you may have old settings on your XBox that don't play well with your current configuration.
FuzzyLogic
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Community Power UserPossibly an issue with the MAC address? This is mentioned in the following article in the section "What Else Can Prevent an Xbox One From Connecting to a Wireless Network?"
How to Fix an Xbox That Won't Connect to Wi-Fi (lifewire.com)
Very strange.
Yes! That's what I had thought may have been the problem too, like some sort of legacy code left over that's not an issue for 99.99999% of people but somehow hit my configuration, but it doesn't seem to care if I change the mac address. I've given it an original MAC address not shared by anything on the network, and I tried just copying one of my other devices MAC address too. Still did not work!! Silly silly machine.
I cannot for the LIFE of me figure out where it is coming from that somewhere between the xbox and the gateway the communication is "OptikTV protocols".
I know that there is another "firewall" layer (is it still called a firewall at that point? I'm not sure) ISP side as well, that will affect things even outside of my own firewall, but whatever this problem is I think its gone well beyond the scope of something we can solve, and its a **bleep** Xbox 360 that I bought for 60 bucks lol. It became more the principle and challenge of solving the problem at this point I think.
Honestly, its purely an issue of hardware not playing nice with each other for some unbeknownst reason. Its hard to pinpoint it, because its not the ISP service, it works, its not the xbox, it works, and its not the gateway, it works. Put them together, and they can't figure out how to communicate.
