NAT Won't Freakin' Open!

[Skotekal]

NAT Won't Freakin' Open!

Okay, so I am using a Dlink-524 router, and I used to have a open NAT setting, but for the past few months, it wont budge from Moderate. Now I need your help.

Things I have tried thus far:
Set the DMZ
Port forwarded the said ports on Xbox.com
Turnd on uPnP
Randomly enough, enabled Discard PING from WAN side.

This is bugging me, and I need any suggestions.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

Re: NAT Won't Freakin' Open!

change MTU from Auto (1500) to 1350.

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Just figured out my problem tonight. Not sure exactly why, but it's working. I don't use DHCP because we only have 4 devices that really need IPs so I assign static IPs in the 10.x.x.x network. I enabled DHCP on the router and removed the static IP from the 360, port forwarding 88 and 3074, both TCP and UDP- viola!

Strange thing is that the 360 has the same exact IP with the same DNS as it did with static. Odd, but it's working now. Connecting to games is much smoother and it doesn't just seem like it, it really is. And when playing UNO, we were able to join every game we tried, whereas each night before, we could only connect to a selected few. ROCK ON!

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i hope either one of these helped.

 

[Skotekal]

Re: NAT Won't Freakin' Open!

No, they didn't. But thanks for the help.