What is a NAT setting?

[Stupidlikeafox]

I've just tried unsuccessfully to connect to an Xbox live game with the chaps on Forza 3, but I get a message saying connection failure due to conflicting NAT settings?! I'm not in the game, but I'm in the party with the people I'm supposed to be playing with!

Any ideas?

[Z06George]

Try resetting your router, that normally works for me.

[Polarbert]

I had that before, just reset my xbox and router and seemed to sort things out.

[Skylinecrazy]

What does 'NAT' actually mean?

[paolow]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_trans...

[randlemarcus]

Skylinecrazy said:

What does 'NAT' actually mean?

Network Address Translation. Basically, you use one address for the computer on your network, and the NAT translates that between your network and the interweb.

[Silverbullet767]

www.portforward.com

[Mr.Jimbo]

Does anyone have any idea of getting an Open NAT on a shared connection?

Tried Port forwarding my Xbox live ports (53, 80, 3074 TDP & 53, 88, 3074 UDP), but no avail, I still have Strict NAT.

Is this more likely my Uni Halls connection rather than the connection through the PC you reckon?

Can get into games etc its just can't really find games (MW2 finds 1/50 if I'm lucky) and generally get kicked for poor performance more often than at home etc.

Any thoughts?

[scorp]

Mr.Jimbo said:

Does anyone have any idea of getting an Open NAT on a shared connection?

Tried Port forwarding my Xbox live ports (53, 80, 3074 TDP & 53, 88, 3074 UDP), but no avail, I still have Strict NAT.

Is this more likely my Uni Halls connection rather than the connection through the PC you reckon?

Can get into games etc its just can't really find games (MW2 finds 1/50 if I'm lucky) and generally get kicked for poor performance more often than at home etc.

Any thoughts?

Firstly depends on how your uni shares it's internet connection, ideally you would have access to the router which in turn is directly connected to the internet. If the router you have access to is behing another firewall somewhere it could be a pain, as all firewalls/routers need port forwarding setup (afaik).


I had similar ball-aches with my ps3 in regards to opening umpteen ports. It seems different games require different port-forwards and it becomes a pain setting it up.

You could try placing the Xbox in a DMZ. This means you have to set your 360 to a static IP (which will work on your network) and then go into the router config and say the xbox (via it's ip-addr you gave it) is in the DMZ. This is like port forwarding, but forwards every unknown port to that machine.

(NOTE: do not place any windows machine in the DMZ )

Edited by scorp on Tuesday 2nd March 03:01

[Cerberus90]

scorp said:

Mr.Jimbo said:

Does anyone have any idea of getting an Open NAT on a shared connection?

Tried Port forwarding my Xbox live ports (53, 80, 3074 TDP & 53, 88, 3074 UDP), but no avail, I still have Strict NAT.

Is this more likely my Uni Halls connection rather than the connection through the PC you reckon?

Can get into games etc its just can't really find games (MW2 finds 1/50 if I'm lucky) and generally get kicked for poor performance more often than at home etc.

Any thoughts?

Firstly depends on how your uni shares it's internet connection, ideally you would have access to the router which in turn is directly connected to the internet. If the router you have access to is behing another firewall somewhere it could be a pain, as all firewalls/routers need port forwarding setup (afaik).


I had similar ball-aches with my ps3 in regards to opening umpteen ports. It seems different games require different port-forwards and it becomes a pain setting it up.

You could try placing the Xbox in a DMZ. This means you have to set your 360 to a static IP (which will work on your network) and then go into the router config and say the xbox (via it's ip-addr you gave it) is in the DMZ. This is like port forwarding, but forwards every unknown port to that machine.

(NOTE: do not place any windows machine in the DMZ )

Edited by scorp on Tuesday 2nd March 03:01

I tried doing this last night, as I initially thought I was having NAT issues.

However, when I placed the xbox in the DMZ, it wouldn't even connect to xbox live. I may try again when its not 2 minutes away from a race, .

[Snoop Bagg]

Can't you just set the NAT to open via the system tools menu. I'm sure you can for a shared connection?

[Fabric 2.2]

This works every time for me;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F__ofITqVmU

[scorp]

Cerberus90 said:

I tried doing this last night, as I initially thought I was having NAT issues.

However, when I placed the xbox in the DMZ, it wouldn't even connect to xbox live. I may try again when its not 2 minutes away from a race, .

Did you set the xbox's static address up correctly ?

[Cerberus90]

scorp said:

Cerberus90 said:

I tried doing this last night, as I initially thought I was having NAT issues.

However, when I placed the xbox in the DMZ, it wouldn't even connect to xbox live. I may try again when its not 2 minutes away from a race, .

Did you set the xbox's static address up correctly ?

Yeh, its setup with a static IP. Or at least it should be.