Modern Warfare 2 online cant find matchs why

My son always plays this game and it works fine when he brings it to my house but at his moms it just searches for matches unless he gets an invite from a friend which is pretty strange. I am a network tech here in florida and have read alot of posts of different things that don't seem to be the problem. It always works at my house so I don't see how an update would have anything to do with it. It did work at his moms house one day about a week ago which is the first day he hooked it up over there. He has only had xbox live about a month. One thing that could make sense is that it is a bandwith issue over here I have brighthouse which is internet via cable modem and I have about a 7 meg package for bandwith. She has dsl lite which I think is around 768k so would be very possible the speed of the internet connection is causing this problem, and the problem with dsl is the further your away form the trunk the slower your speed is compared to someon closer and amount of users at a given time will bog it down. That could be why some work at certain times and not other times. Could work fine in middle of day but not in the evening when everyone is online. This is just a thought I am going to test this out by trying to connect over there at different times. Like I said it works at my house all the time but I have a very fast internet connection.

Exactly. It's how they have their servers setup. As of right now they have few servers and none of them are dedicated running with minimal ports which people with slower connections have longer wait times and sometimes laggy game play. In other words, they are to cheap and lazy to address real problems like dedicating their servers and expanding them to more users at one time. Nearly 24/7 there are 9 million+ players online and in the evening and weekends there are more. Like Chumbly said there are certain times of the day that have less players online which makes matchmaking work more efficiently. But, I don't believe it really matters as much with connection speed because its happened to a few of my friends and they have extremely high speed internet. So I'm pretty sure it has to do with the over capacity of the servers for this game. As you notice at the prime times that most gamers are on, hosts get changed alot and servers get lost easier and more.

that blows part of my theory about the faster connection speed, not sure if it could also be something to do with cable modem vs. dsl modem. However ur right on those numbers and thats crazy with the amount of money they are making off these players they need to take a look at whos making the money and host a server in each major city, that wouldnt cost as much as they make in one single day!!! And I still want to figure out why at my house I have no problems at all no matter what day or time, but take it over to his moms and it does not work, she lives about 10 miles. The only difference is she has dsl I have cable modem. I'm going to check some configs on her wireless router about port forwarding like some of the other posts has said and see if that helps. But the real problem is like you said lack of servers, in the meantime I want to figure a way to make it work over there. Simple solution add more servers so we don't have to worry about connection speed, I didn't see that as a requirement anywhere..lol

Mine only works on xbox 360 when I join a freinds session in progress

albertan poof

how do I uninstall the update

When you uninstalled the game, did you lose all of your progress (emblems, titles, unlocked weapons)?