Living with your beloved sometimes has it's downsides. These downsides can be so mind numbingly infuriating that you may end up tearing all your hair out and going on a murderous rampage, slaughtering hundreds of innocent bystanders.
What could possibly be that annoying?
Yup,
NAT issues! We have 2 xbox 360 consoles hooked up directly to our router, and only one of us can ever get an open NAT. The other console will always show up as moderate. This always leads to a headache when playing Halo 3 or Gears 2.
I checked xbox.com first for a list of compatible routers in the UK and get this.
I called up Xbox customer service to try and get some resolution on this issue with utterly no success. I was told to port foward all the standard xbox live ports on
both consoles to start with. When I explained we'd done that before and it made things worse I got put on hold for ages. My "helpful" advisor put me through to the technical team and I explained our current setup, for anyone interested.. here it is:
My 360 IP address is in the DMZ
Other 360 has all the relevant ports fowarded to it.
Upnp is disabled.
MTU is set to auto (1500)
The tech team rep put me on hold and then the line went dead.
Thanks Microsoft, i'll just go back to paying a gold subscription for some reason. :)
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And don't even get me started about xbox customer service.
On a side note: That's really cool that you live with your mate and both play Gears of War 2. My wife and I have to settle with private games on the same 'Box.
UPNP is supposed to automatically manage this so it doesn't require manual forwarding, but it's a very buggy protocol.
I might just pick up another router now, as i've had enough of this one.
If you have a compatible router, you could also try DD-WRT, which is just good (and what I was using when I had two connections to XBL and PSN).
Usually helps with data transportation, in the case of XBL the NAT decides what rooms you can join, your online performance or even if people can hear you.
Back when I had a horrible router mine was at strict and I could only join certain people and at times I couldn't even hear others.
The way port forwarding works, only one machine can be open nat at a time if you have a single IP. Open NAT basically means that if the internet calls your house and asks for the xbox, it goes to an xbox. It can only go to one at a time because XBL is set to listen on a specific port.
IPV6 is supposed to change this shit, but for now you're SOL
Since when? It shows your NAT only when it is moderate or strict, otherwise it just shows nothing when you go to connection test. Yah its a small difference buts its designed to be user friendly, instead of you being confused what NAT may be, it just tells you now if there is a problem with your router settings and what moderate or strict NAT means.