Multiple Xbox 360s. One router?

Skillmister · 17 Sep 2010 at 23:34

Hi all, got a problem. Moved into my new house for uni, currently there is 3 xbox 360's and soon to be one more. Is it possible for all the xbox's to have an open/moderate NAT type at the same time as currently we can only manage to get 1 open and the rest strict (meaning its impossible to find games/parties etc).

If it is only possible to have one open and one moderate per router is it a viable option to daisy chain 2 routers and then do something crazy with each to get it working?
I have literally no idea about anything network related but i can relay any replies to the person who knows more what to do

Our router is a Netgear vmdg280 if that helps.

benftl · 18 Sep 2010 at 00:16

Check the router to see if UPNP is on. No amount of daisy chaining or whatever will help, UPNP is what you need.

Memphis · 18 Sep 2010 at 00:22

benftl said:
Check the router to see if UPNP is on. No amount of daisy chaining or whatever will help, UPNP is what you need.

As above.

A router that has UPNP that works is all that is required.

Skillmister · 18 Sep 2010 at 00:24

We had it on and that didnt seem to work :confused:

KIA · 18 Sep 2010 at 11:22

Do they use unique ports?

How about a static IP for each Xbox?

GoogalyMoogaly · 18 Sep 2010 at 11:42

XBOX Live uses a preset selection of ports, which are detailed here.
I don't think you'll be able to do open NAT to more than 1 XBOX due to the fact that they all need to use the same ports.

benftl · 18 Sep 2010 at 11:46

3074 is the main one but afaik UPNP allows for it to choose different ports if 3074 is currently mapped (as it would be if one xbox was already online at the time).

MagicBoy · 18 Sep 2010 at 11:51

I don't believe it's possible. You can get an open connection with 2 xbox but only with certain routers. A mate of mine mentioned this link the other week when he was having the same problem : http://www.unofficialguidetolive.co.uk/faqs/63-two-xboxes-using-one-router-internet-connection

spoogle · 18 Sep 2010 at 11:55

To cut a long story short, it just will not work with multiple xbox's unless you have one of the few routers that microsoft say are acceptable routers, however....I bought one and still didn't get it to work. Poor design from Microsoft. The best I got was one xbox with open NAT and the rest had Moderate.

ecksmen · 19 Sep 2010 at 23:08

spoogle said:
To cut a long story short, it just will not work with multiple xbox's unless you have one of the few routers that microsoft say are acceptable routers, however....I bought one and still didn't get it to work. Poor design from Microsoft. The best I got was one xbox with open NAT and the rest had Moderate.

Not really, TCP is the issue. If you bought a block of IPs from your ISP you could have as many xboxs as IPs....

Azuse05 · 19 Sep 2010 at 23:37

spoogle said:
To cut a long story short, it just will not work with multiple xbox's unless you have one of the few routers that microsoft say are acceptable routers, however....I bought one and still didn't get it to work. Poor design from Microsoft. The best I got was one xbox with open NAT and the rest had Moderate.

Umm, one open rest moderate is exactly what it should be with upnp on. Any decent router (i.e. decent firmware) will produce exactly that result. Get something running tomato, dd-wrt or any other open firmware and that's exactly what you'll get because they weren't coded by the team of chimps some of the large manufacturers employ