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Subject: Opening NAT for Dummies 2: Pimp Out Your Xbox Live for Halo Reach!

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this helped so much! thank you

  • 12.07.2010 11:01 PM PDT

Thank you so much, my NAT is now open! I would like to add something I had to do to make it work.
I had to uncheck my Firewall in the router settings.
If I don't uncheck it, the NAT just won't open.

  • 12.13.2010 12:54 AM PDT

dont write me a god damn essay! just put steps in and dont make it so confusing (and this didnt help at all, it just killed my internet until i put all settings back to normal >:O)

[Edited on 12.13.2010 6:50 AM PST]

  • 12.13.2010 6:49 AM PDT
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I take screenshots, check them out!

Keep it simple stupid.

Followed all steps and still "Closed NAT". :(

  • 12.13.2010 9:03 AM PDT
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I take screenshots, check them out!

Keep it simple stupid.


Posted by: y2yk2k
Thank you so much, my NAT is now open! I would like to add something I had to do to make it work.
I had to uncheck my Firewall in the router settings.
If I don't uncheck it, the NAT just won't open.


How do you find the firewall settings?

  • 12.13.2010 9:04 AM PDT
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This Soffish do not eat.

Hmm, my NAT has mysteriously become strict as of late. This happened before, a simple reboot of everything did the trick last time, but it looks like I shall have to give your rather well-crafted guide a go this time, as no amount of unplugging and replugging is getting me anywhere this time round. Thanks for the guide, I hope it solves my networking problems!

  • 12.13.2010 9:15 AM PDT
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My NAT used to be opened back when I had AT&T. Comcast is much less reliable.

  • 12.16.2010 7:58 PM PDT

Posted by: CapttainNEM0

How do you find the firewall settings?

just put your ip adress in your adress bar. (instead of www.bungie.net, for example.)

After you are done with this, your modem settings will pop up.

Every modem has different settings menus, so I can't help more than this, but there must be an option to enable the firewall. Just uncheck it.

  • 12.19.2010 3:13 PM PDT

if you have a BT homehub then go to this website

nothing I tried changed my NAT to open until I followed the steps recommended by this site :)

basically after trying all the complicated stuff like port fowarding and putting my xbox in a dmz (which is surprisingly tricky with the homehub), I found that simply setting all the I.P.s, gateways and subnet masks and stuff to auto on the xbox, telling the homehub to use the same I.P. address every time for my xbox, and assigning the application "XBconnect" to my xbox's I.P., it mysteriously started working again (go to the website as I cant be bothered to run through it all here)

sometimes the simplest solutions are the best :)

[Edited on 12.20.2010 6:29 AM PST]

  • 12.20.2010 6:24 AM PDT

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I couldn't join Xbox LIVE parties or even so much as join lobbies with my friends on a range of games.

After following these steps however (including the 1337 section) I've got open NAT across the board.

Quite simple to follow actually, many thanks.

[Edited on 12.20.2010 5:51 PM PST]

  • 12.20.2010 5:51 PM PDT
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JP

i did everythiing you said and all it did was change my NAT from moderate to strict which is even worse!!!

  • 12.20.2010 6:46 PM PDT

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I see no advantage to having an open NAT at all. I can connect to friends games with no problem with a closed NAT. I can share any and all media that the Xbox accepts with a close NAT on my home network. And I do not have a router that has upnp.

I can connect to xbox live with no issues, I can connect to all games with no issues. Even with a closed nat.

All that having a closed nat does is make sure I am never host in any game. Which is fine by me, since I never want to be host in any game. Since I only have dsl. And no I am not going to go get a better isp just to open my NAT just so I can ever be host in a game.

So though this may be helpful to some, it will not be to all.

  • 12.21.2010 9:33 AM PDT

Anyone have any idea how to do this for Verizon Fios? I'm havin' a dickens loging in....did I say dickens?

  • 12.24.2010 9:10 PM PDT

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Does any one know if reach is like halo 3 where if you have x box 360 hooked up to one router one would have an open NAT and the other would have a closed NAT?

  • 12.25.2010 5:09 PM PDT

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Worked Great! Went and fixed several friends who were having the same issue while my credit ban expired :( which it has, and I can now enjoi delicious Cr once again.

  • 12.26.2010 5:20 PM PDT

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@ those who say NAT dose not affect matchmaking...obviously it does....and it will only cause you problems when joining with others that have closed NAT, and even then only sometimes. What I can say is, after I went through this guide, I was instantly able to connect with players who 30 sec previous I was getting the cant join party/NAT message.

[Edited on 12.26.2010 5:23 PM PST]

  • 12.26.2010 5:22 PM PDT

So Is There A Way To Have Open NAT on Two Xbox On The Same Network? Me An My Bro Have Moderate NAT and Can't Connect To Friends Sometimes, We Have A WRT310n Linksys Router (V1).

  • 12.27.2010 7:14 PM PDT

When the dust settles, you will learn what true terror is.


Posted by: Da Master Chef
While we're still on the first page, I'd just like to say that the guide at the moment is not perfect and as always I'd like to fix that. It could do with a section on how to get your IP and DNS numbers with Windows 7. I don't have it so if anyone reading this can write it in the same style as the XP description, I'll edit it in and give you a shoutout


I'd imagine this has been answered already, but just in case (since I'm really not willing to go through X amount of pages to check):

The process is exactly the same, except instead of clicking "run" and typing in "cmd.exe" you go to the start menu, click on the box to search for files or folders and type "cmd". At the top of the search results should be the program "cmd" which you need to double-click to run. Once you're in there, it's the same command.

  • 12.28.2010 11:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: Kage24Neko
Does any one know if reach is like halo 3 where if you have x box 360 hooked up to one router one would have an open NAT and the other would have a closed NAT?

Does that for all games.

  • 01.01.2011 11:42 AM PDT

umad

  • 01.01.2011 12:19 PM PDT

nice thread, but do u have any info on why i have, or how to fix bandwitdh problems?

my NAT is open, but my bandwith says warning in the network status.

my connection isnt all that bad, but with the realease of the quit ban, me lagging out a whole bunch is begining to anger me..

help anyone?

  • 01.01.2011 1:16 PM PDT

I followed the guide exactly, but no luck. I'm having trouble understand what ports to open? I am not a tech guy.

Do I put the port numbers in that Master put in the guide (80,88,307,53)? Or do I put the ones I found on PortForward.com, which only had 3?

And, I am putting the static IP of my 360 into the Port Forwarding Server IP address box? Or the IP adress of my computer? Or gateway?

Sorry, I just suck at this stuff.

  • 01.03.2011 9:35 AM PDT

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Posted by: teppei822
I followed the guide exactly, but no luck. I'm having trouble understand what ports to open? I am not a tech guy.

Do I put the port numbers in that Master put in the guide (80,88,307,53)? Or do I put the ones I found on PortForward.com, which only had 3?

And, I am putting the static IP of my 360 into the Port Forwarding Server IP address box? Or the IP adress of my computer? Or gateway?

Sorry, I just suck at this stuff.


Your xbox's ip and my ports of course!

  • 01.08.2011 4:49 AM PDT

A great tutorial Master Chef however when even followed religiously to every single character it still does not resolve my strict NAT settings! Since i have a NAt modem and a NAT router i have applied all the instructions to both machines. The modem is the Siemens SpeedStream-4200 and the router is the D-Link DIR-320.
However to clear some space i have successfully made my xbox's IP static and had it connect right through to the wide world of internet.
though after that, that's when things start to get hay-wire.
My first approach was to do the forward ports and put in ports 53,80,88,1863 and 3074 (1863 was recommended by PortForward.com) to both the modem and router. i turned off UPnP and started the xbox live network connection test. however it said that my NAT settings was still strict! So then i endeavored to turn on DMZ MAKING sure i first turned off the forward ports as they "cancel each other out" redid the test and the same strict result came out.

Oh and mind you before i i made the xbox's IP static the modem and router allready had UPnP enabled so that is another reason why i turned UPnP off and did not try that method in the first place. on this setting my NAT setting was moderate BUT NOT OPEN >:(

Now i am absolutely clueless as what to do now as iv been trying to fix this NAT issue for well over 12 hours now (no joke)and this absolutely phenomenally huge reply is my last attempt on defeating NAT FOREVER!

btw i'd be amazed if anyone actually read this entire reply :O

  • 01.08.2011 4:52 AM PDT