NAT Problem's

[Marc_CRX]

I Have a BT HomeHub and my Brother has An Xbox 360 (So Do I) we are both connected to Xbox Live Through Wireless on the Homehub....but my NAT is Strict and His is Open!? i dont know how to change it to an Open NAT...can anyone help?

[crappucino]

afaik you cannot forward the same port to 2 different hosts on your network using the NAT implementation you will find in home routers so one of you will always be strict :(

[Marc_CRX]

so how do i make my Brother Strcit because he doesnt play his Xbox Nearly as much as i do.

We Have Been on Xbox Live at The Same time and I was having no problems connecting to all players and i dont think he had any Problem's either

[Marc_CRX]

Would i be Able to Open a New Port for my Xbox?

[crappucino]

Does your brother's xbox have a reserved IP address with a static port forwards of the xbox live ports to it? Obviously you would need to look in your router config pages for this. Alternatively, if uPNP is enabled then I would have thought this would wreak havoc when both xboxes are turned on.

Edit - just seen your other post. Sorry m8 you can't open another port, Xbox live only works with those specified (3074,88) and as you will only have one WAN side IP address there's not much you can do about it.

[AdamLaing]

You could try setting you xbox 360 up in the DMZ this will make your NAT open.

Go to the BT Hub manager or type "192.168.1.254" into internet explorer.

Click on Advanced Log in with your user name normally: admin password: admin

Click on Application Sharing, a list under application sharing will appear,

Click on DMZ, make sure you select your xbox 360 and not the other one,
it should open your NAT.

But the only problem is that if you have a hub phone it seams to stop it working which is weird it takes the phone Symbol for the device which is wrong, if you don't have a HomeHub phone try it, if you use your HomeHub phone you probably might want to give it a miss, or you would have to remove you xbox 360 from the DMZ before your HomeHub phone would start working again, oh and another thing that when the phone symbol isn't on your HomeHub phone uses your home phone line not your broadband phone line, just in case you check and think im telling you porkies.

I hope this will help you, theres no harm in trying,
Take care Adam Laing Out*

[crappucino]

Thr problem is that you're trying to port forward from one WAN side IP address. It's just not going to work :(

[AdamLaing]

if the other xbox 360 is NAT is open, and you is restricted, first try puting yours in the DMZ (demilitarized zone) and it should be as if your xbox is connencted Direcetly to the internet and the router souldn't Interfere with it,
or you could try putting both xbox's into the DMZ then you shouldn't need port forwarding because it should totally bypass the BTHomeHub Router and pass thriaght through it. You can only try no harm in that.

[Marc_CRX]

Sorry....got it sorted....it fixed itself lol

[micndiesel]

i have the problem whenever bt update the hub mines back to its proper settings bt also slow down your connection each month so it worth doing a hub reset monthly to keep at full speed :rolleyes:

[voodoov2]

i have the problem whenever bt update the hub mines back to its proper settings bt also slow down your connection each month so it worth doing a hub reset monthly to keep at full speed :rolleyes:
weirdblue weirdblue weirdblue

i'm expecting to switch over to bt internet tomorrow if the home hub package arrives. all this sounds "bt sneaky" to me...

any advice or anything i should be aware of before i get started?

[micndiesel]

other than the speed getting slower over time and the new security settings when it auto updates its very good , ive got the 360 and a apple ibook g4 connected wireless to it and a imac on the ethernet connection and the internet phone and everything works really well they can all be used at the same time and it doesnt seem to effect any much

if you get any problems give me a message and ill help if i can

[AdamLaing]

Hay just to let you know about a problem I was having and a solution I found for it which might be of help to some one maybe.
Basically my home hub worked fine with my xbox360 until it was updated a couple of times then I noticed I couldn’t join games or couldn’t find any? Checked my network test on the xbox360 and it was returning NAT STRICT. I tried everything but the most stupidly simply thing, and got it to work through assigning the xbox360 to the DMZ it worked NAT open but the home hub phone stopped working (the light went out) and as soon as I turned of the xbox360 in the DMZ the hub phone work but not the xbox360. Thinking this is no good not being able to get both working at the same time I trying just about everything twice and nothing.
Then I properly reset my Home Hub from the home hub manager and guess what now everything work lovely, the xbox360’s NAT is OPEN the home hub phone work and guess what? I’m happy again :bravo:

[voodoov2]

thanks all for the info and advice, the home hub finally turned up today so been trying to configure and sort everything out this evening. great way to spend a friday night!

appreciate your time and help guys, i'm confident now that i'll be able to deal with any hassles that might occur...

mdr1