How to force host yourself on xboxlive

[secricity]

What your going to need is a tool called ION and zone alarm.

 

Your going to want to download zone alarm here:

 

http://www.filehippo.com/download_zonealarm_free

 

And ION here and yes its a clean copy of ION:

 

http://d9fe2d2b.linkbucks.com

 

To setup Ion your going to want to open it in like winrar or winzip because its a rar file. When you open it look for setup.exe there will be a setup.msi by it but if you click that one it will not work properly.http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/1599/screenhunter01dec081604.gif

 

 

 

If your running vista, when you sign in you will get a blue screen constantly every time you sign in. To get rid of the blue screen you will have to uninstall ION in safe mode. Zone alarm is a service so it will start up every time your computer starts up as it is a firewall. ION is not a service so it does not start up automatically. Your going to have to bridge a connection from your computer to your xbox for this to work. Then your going to want to open up zone alarm and go to firewall tab / main and turn the fire wall completely off. Then go to ION and click settings then your going to pick your bridge ( if you pick the wrong bridge it will not do its job right ). For me its a MAC bridge virtual NIC.

 

Getting IP's with ION. Your going to want to hit start in the bottom left hand corner and your friends IP's will show up. When you do this your going to want to make sher that zone alarm fire wall is on but the actual fire wall is off.http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8004/screenhunter01dec082141.gif

 

To make sure that its actually working your going to want to go to your dashboard and hit start if you do this right so far your routers connection should come up and a couple of other ones like Microsoft's IP and may be a couple of other ones depending on your connection.Then your router connection should be one of the first ones to come up. Then when they come up right click them and hit edit and rename them xboxliveconnection1 xboxliveconnection2 and so on. Then after that while there high lighted click ZA Trust then go to zone alarm, but before that your going TO HAVE TO be in main where the fire wall connections are and the switch over to zones, then back over to main then back to zones and etc until it shows up as trusted. If you don't do this ION will crash and freeze ION is retarded like that but its free.

 

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Who ever is hosting the game is the connection host and who ever is below him and so on. Then your going to want your friend to host a game. Right before the game go to zone alarm the firewall then main then click Internet Zone Security up to High and Trusted Zone Security to off. Then you go over to the stand by tab and you can choose how much up and how much down you want. UP is how long your connected and Down is how long your disconnected.

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Edited December 10, 2009 by secricity

[Diggy]

Good tutorial, but is this really necessary? There are a lot of other standbying tutorials out there, I just don't see the need for another.

[secricity]

Good tutorial, but is this really necessary? There are a lot of other standbying tutorials out there, I just don't see the need for another.

 

The reason I posted this one is because ION is a different tool out there that not alot of people use and mainly because its ability to grab IP's and stand by in one program.