XBOX 360 hosting and joining games problem

AMDRulz · 7 May 2006 at 20:44

i have a speedtouch 576 wireless router, and it seems to be blocking me joining friends games. keeps coming up with cannot connect to server. although i still can manually search for games and join any other ones. on my xbox live connection test it keeps coming up with "NAT" Strict, which i believe needs to say open. how do i go about changing this. my current setup is my PC is wireless, and the 360 is routing through the PC via cross over cable to get onto live. i have phoned AOL and they have said they have no idea basically.

any one know of these issues and how to correct them?

cheers

Phil99 · 7 May 2006 at 21:10

You need to set the 360 to use a static IP (manually define an IP on it instead of DHCP) and then put this IP in the "DMZ" option in your router config pages.

AMDRulz · 7 May 2006 at 21:22

Phil99 said:
You need to set the 360 to use a static IP (manually define an IP on it instead of DHCP) and then put this IP in the "DMZ" option in your router config pages.

i dont see a DMZ option, what kind of settin would this be under

Phil99 · 7 May 2006 at 21:47

Port Forwarding, Virtual Hosts, stuff like that.

It should describe it in the manual if you can't find it on the config pages...which router is it?

AMDRulz · 7 May 2006 at 22:20

its a speedtouch 576 router

FordPrefect · 7 May 2006 at 22:37

Instead of the DMZ option you might very well get away with just forwarding TCP/UDP 3074, that sorted out my problem. I have read about the need for either TCP or UDP 88, but I know I didnt need it. Also turn off UDP flood protection if you are still having problems.