How to open your NAT.

[Scott]

I made a thread on H2F on how to do this, so I may aswell post it here as there's no other threads, except ones that simply link to portforward.com, which is no good at all.

Originally Posted by Scott

Some of your have probably noticed that when your NAT is strict you can't join your friends with the same NAT. Well, there's two ways to fix it -- port forwarding and setting a DMZ. The latter is the easiest so I'll post how to do that first.

Firstly what you need to do, is go here:

PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

And choose your router. On the page, look at the first couple of steps. It will tell you to enter an IP address into your browser (ie 192.168.1.1) and then enter the username and password. Do that until you get to your router settings. Stop following that guide afterwards, because it's for port forwarding and not DMZ'ing.

Once you're in the router settings you need to find the "DMZ" page. Have a look through the menus -- it's probably under "Security", "NAT", "Gaming and Applications" or something like that.

You will know you've found it when you simply see a box to enter in an IP, and sometimes a check box saying "Enable". When you find the box, enter 192.168.1.50 into it. That's it, just save if you can.

Easy eh? Not finished just yet though. Now you need to go to your Xbox. Go to the last blade, the settings one, and choose Network Settings. From here choose Edit Settings and choose IP Address. Set it to manual and use these settings:

IP Address: 192.168.1.50
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: Use the IP address that you typed into your browser to get your router settings up. Normally 192.168.1.1.

Now try to connect. Your NAT should be open. If it isn't, restart both your router and Xbox 360.

I typed this really quickly, so if it's confusing in any parts just let me know. I can post how to port forward too if anyone wants, but DMZ'ing is far more effective and easier.

If your DNS fails then do this:


Go to Start > Run and type "cmd". Then type "ipconfig /all". Take a note of your Primary DNS in there.

Then go to your Xbox, settings, network settings, edit settings, DNS Server, manual and use:

Primary DNS: whatever you took note of from ipconfig /all
Secondary DNS: not needed.

Feel free to ask if you get stuck.

[the hell freak]

wow thats a lot of great info. thanks scott this is why everyone likes you lol. i dont have this problem but i know a few people that do. so thanks again.

[Scott]

Hmm, I don't think this is going to be popular enough to warrant a sticky.

But thanks anyway.

[Joe]

I'll have to do this when I get another ethernet cable

[xZoObYx]

Damn,sorry about this but when on the Belkin Firewall > Virtual servers.It says to do this..

Enable | Description| Inbound Port | Type | Priv Ip Adress | Private Port

For Priv Ip adress is it the "STATIC or normal Ip adress?"

Sorry for this dumb question.

[Scott]

Originally Posted by xZoObYx

Damn,sorry about this but when on the Belkin Firewall > Virtual servers.It says to do this..

Enable | Description| Inbound Port | Type | Priv Ip Adress | Private Port

For Priv Ip adress is it the "STATIC or normal Ip adress?"

Sorry for this dumb question.

What you're trying to do there is port forward.

You need to look for the DMZ page. Or it might be called by its full name Demilitarised Zone.

[Tattie]

Hey Scott, I keep getting disconnected from XBL randomly and the XBL test keeps saying my IP Address has failed. It says it cannot get a lease from my DHCP server. Any idea how to fix this?

Tattie

[Scott]

Originally Posted by Tattie

Hey Scott, I keep getting disconnected from XBL randomly and the XBL test keeps saying my IP Address has failed. It says it cannot get a lease from my DHCP server. Any idea how to fix this?

Tattie

It sounds like your DHCP server has too short of a lease time, but even that shouldn't disconnect you. Hmm, try going into your router settings, look under the "DHCP" settings (might be called Virtual Server) and see what the lease time is set to. Change it to two days if it's less than that.

[E z e k i e l]

Originally Posted by Tattie

Hey Scott, I keep getting disconnected from XBL randomly and the XBL test keeps saying my IP Address has failed. It says it cannot get a lease from my DHCP server. Any idea how to fix this?

Tattie

Originally Posted by Scott

It sounds like your DHCP server has too short of a lease time, but even that shouldn't disconnect you. Hmm, try going into your router settings, look under the "DHCP" settings (might be called Virtual Server) and see what the lease time is set to. Change it to two days if it's less than that.

If none of that has worked then it may be that your router is changing you console's local IP address randomly, in which case you need to ask Scott on how to change it because i cba to type it now.