Wireless router and xbox live problems

HirRai

HirRai

HirRai

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Hello everyone. I'm living in a student house with 5 other friends and we have a virgin media 20mb connection. We are using a wireless router to provide access to everyone and it works fine for internet access and downloading.

However, everyone also has an xbox 360 and we are having to use Windows ICS to use Xbox Live. We are having a nightmare trying to get the NAT settings to open on xbox live and we've tried the settings from the microsoft website and other guides with little to no success.

We're using a belkin wireless pre-n router (f5d8230uk4) and what we basically are trying to do is have the NAT settings to open so we can all use our 360's fine. We know we need to open ports but it's just not working, we're going crazy here lol so any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
 
We're using ICS because the 360's are plugged into our computers. There are 6 of us in the house all with an xbox 360 and none of us have the wireless adapter so we have to plug it into our computers and then share the wireless connection.
 
You don't need to use ICS though - you can just bridge the connections to the Xbox and the router. It's an extra layer of hassle that you don't need if you're having problems.

Is it the same if you directly connect an Xbox to the router?
 
You dont need to use it no, but it saves £55 on the Microsoft wireless adapter and works perfectly well. But yes it could cause problems on certain setups I suppose, well worth trying a direct connection to the router as suggested.
 
If you bridge the connections on the PC, you don't have to buy the adapter either and it'll work with less complexity than using ICS...
 
Select the wired interface to the Xbox and whatever connects you to the router, right click and select bridge connections. Job done.
 
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