Network strain, not the update caused Live to act up

What about all the problems written about in this post?

http://forums.xbox.com/17126057/ShowPost.aspx

Minor problems on my end, xbox guide would hang occasionally, but I believe it was all ironed out by the end of the night.

yeah after restarting my 360 a couple of times, my friend and I realized it was a network issue, which fixed itself after a few hours. Then the system was running insanely fast.

the divx feature is pretty sweet. and the new dashboard is a bit more organized. Not a fan on how reliant the dashboard is to the Xbox network.

Well the update bricked my system... and I think many others too.... can the 360 Fanboy boys (and girls) follow up with some info about the many Rings of Death the update caused? And why?? Please...

Great, it WAS Xbox Live's fault. So can Bungie restore any lost EXP from Halo 3 due to network issues? I got a DNF, as well as a few team members.

Yeah my dashboard took forever to load...I was like WTF!
But I'm glad it's all better now.

Everything went smooth for me, only took 10 seconds to download the update. Overall I think it was a great update with stuff that I'll actually use.

Not that much of a biggie to me but really what do we pay for ha, and they of all companies should be able to handle a load of traffic to their site. Bet it was their crap Windows server OS.

if only my xbox had actually been returned from repair, I would have got the update. 2 months next week ive been waiting. 2 months!
Captian appolo said, he got the RROD, I wish you luck in getting your system fixed, its a bloody nightmare. But hey, captian, BE NICE TO THE GUY OR GAL ON THE PHONE, because they are sending me a wirless controller, Kameo, and 6 months free gold live membership. Ofcourse I know that this is only a sweetener to keep me as a customer, afterall this will be my third xbox 360 since launch so I suppose its the least that they can do.
See you online around easter time captian appolo

Interesting.. I was wondering why it was taking over 10 minutes to load my dashboard when signed in on Live.

I don't like the fact that the dashboard is so reliant to the network. if the network is down... you can't do anything on your dashboard.

Yeah, Microsoft must be upset there's TOO MANY people using Xbox Live. (grin)

Free online services can crash, trash, and blow up, but when I pay for something, it better work. Microsoft is the king of selling things that don't really have customer service.

HAHA. The MODS used Mac OS X Mail for that sticky!

Oh ya, I noticed this too.

It wasn't a big deal even for my mere $50 a year geez your paying less than price for a game title for a years service that is down how many times? I'm pretty certain its up more than my ISP.

So I had to wait a little bit and there was some slowness, big deal. This update had the biggest feature that just about every 360 owner has asked for (DIVX) plus a whole lot more. Something to consider not everyone that has a live connected 360 goes straight into live and start downloading things immediately, well that is what this update did for all connected 360s but all at once. All the people getting home from work connected up and started downloading the update, then started checking things out streaming video previews, downloading the DIVX Codec, downloading new content, downloading the new music videos, downloading XBox classics.

It was the best Dashboard update period, everyone should be very happy. I am.

Though I'm happy (enough) with the update, and though I'm patient and not overly affected by the problems that occurred, I'm still surprised that MS can't somehow isolate the network issues of distributing a new dash away from the core-functionality of XBL.

I do server IT for a living and we regularly dedicate separate infrastructure (network, servers, CDNs) for various purposes to isolate one piece from another. While I'm sure there are smart folks architecting the XBL infrastructure, sure sounds like they could do it better.

Oh, well ... nothing tests like production.

I cannot believe how fast my 360 blades and dash button are after the update. Is it just me or does your 360 seem to be much more responsive and just plain faster in the navigation between screens?

Works great on my end. A bit laggy at first, but that cleared up soon after.

So does this mean the problems when changing your Windows Live ID associated with your gamertag are fixed?

Just one question, how do you get your AVI files to the Xbox. Will they play from a burnt cd or dvd or do you need to setup Media Player or Zune???Please help...

Thanks Layla, one thing is when I stream using Media player it says there are no videos. I dont have a media centre pc its just Windows Xp...Any thoughts