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Hey guys, I own an xbox and something I have seen recently is that when I'm playing online, it says that my NAT type is on moderate. Sometimes I can't connect to my friends and stuff, so I was wondering if anyone knew how to make the NAT type open?

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Step 1: Get your Xbox 360's IP address from the system blade and choose network settings. Then edit settings should show your Xbox's IP.

Step 2: Go into your routers configuration window thru Internet Explorer. In the address bar type in your routers IP address. It should be default at 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.2.1. When you're prompted for a password you have found it =P. If you haven't changed it the username and password should both be admin, and admin.

Step 3: USING DMZ When you enter into your router config window, you need to find the Tab DMZ, it should be under applications and gaming if you are using Linksys. Once you find the DMZ tab, click enable and type in the last digits of your XBOX into the box below. Yes when you do this you are opening all the ports on your Xbox, which is insecure, but show me someone that has hacked into an xbox 360?
<MAKE SURE YOU SAVE SETTINGS>
Step 4:Using Port Fowarding After you have enabled DMZ, find the Port Fowarding tab, should be under advanced routing. For the name type in XBL or whatever you want, and for port range put 87 to 89, choose UDP, then your XBOX last digits, and enable. Then do 3073 to 3075 choose TCP, then your XBOX last digits, and enable. Then again do 3073 to 3075 choose UDP, then your XBOX last digits, and enable.
<MAKE SURE YOU SAVE SETTINGS>
Step 5:Using UPnP This is just incase. Go into UPnP fowarding and enter in the same stuff you did for Step 4.
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Step 6: Now logout of your router config. Unplug your router and modem from the power, then plug in the router 1st, wait 30 seconds. Then plug in the modem and wait at least 2 minutes. If you don't do these hard restarts it might not work!

Step 7: Restart your Xbox and go to the system blade, choose network settings, then test connection. This may take a bit, but when it gets down to NAT type it should say OPEN. If not, sorry. You can just undo all the settings we changed, you can just uncheck enabled on the port fowarding. or if you want to restore your router to the factory defaults just push the reset button on the back of it.

Once again this may not work for everyone, but it worked for me and my friends, so good luck.

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 or just enable your Upnp... and it should be open well thats what i did and both my xbox has nat type open, just by enabling it, linksys is what im using btw with the 192.168.1.xxx :D to enable it just type "if your using linksys settings might be set up like this:" type 192.168.1.1 a pop upbox shows, type admin and admin for user and password.

goto Administration on the routher :D and enable upnp

All that really matters here is that you turn Unp on and make a DHCP reservation for your xbox's local ip address. Then set a manual configuration on your xbox to match the DHCP address.

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Klutz posted: (1st Aug 2011 11:29 am)

All that really matters here is that you turn Unp on and make a DHCP reservation for your xbox's local ip address. Then set a manual configuration on your xbox to match the DHCP address.

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EOServ Class: Main Player, Mapping Artist, Oldbie