Xbox live and router

Banish · 10 Dec 2009 at 19:47

I have a Netgear DG834PN router and have opened the ports all that it says, both my boxs connect alright but The lounge one will go no less than moderate Nat the other is always open,

both are connected wirelessly

If I boot the lounge one after the back room one it goes straight to strict

rebooted the router done everything I know now need help please ???

cheers
Brian

Pen66 · 10 Dec 2009 at 19:57

Try putting one in the DMZ?

Under WAN setup in the settings.

Unbeliever · 10 Dec 2009 at 20:09

Yeah stick it in DMZ that'll solve it, I had to do that with mine.

Yas786 · 10 Dec 2009 at 20:30

I had major problems with my Netgear DGN2000...in the end i had to ring up netgear and get it replaced...couldnt get onto live for love or money.

Kreeeee · 10 Dec 2009 at 20:50

Spawn said:
I had major problems with my Netgear DGN2000...in the end i had to ring up netgear and get it replaced...couldnt get onto live for love or money.

Is your new DGN2000 fine then? Luckily I have zero issues with mine.

Limenote · 10 Dec 2009 at 22:38

makesure you have forwarded all sets of ports to both ip addresses on the network, create duplicate entries if nessasary

Banish · 11 Dec 2009 at 00:37

thanks fellas I shall try the dmz

Drukk · 11 Dec 2009 at 01:31

I have never managed to get 2 xboxes working on the same router with an open NAT yet. Have tried having one in DMZ and the other using port forwarding but still does n't work. Some routers its just not possible to do.

Red and White · 11 Dec 2009 at 08:54

if my understanding is correct then the best you can hope for is to have 1 open and 1 moderate. i dont think you can get them both open if you are using them at the same time.

khrall · 11 Dec 2009 at 09:05

Had a similar problem last weekend when a friend came over.

Managed to get both open by giving both xboxs reserved static dhcp addresses (not set on the xbox but from the router) and manually opening up the ports on the router for both boxes. This was using a thompson o2 router.

It worked for the weekend. Settings saved to the router so hopefully next time I won't waste 2 hours trying to get it working again!

maxilive · 11 Dec 2009 at 09:58

I've always had to put my xbox on the DMZ with all my routers to have and keep and Open NAT. I'm sure Microsoft/Games changes the ports sometimes

Yas786 · 11 Dec 2009 at 11:26

Kreeeee said:
Is your new DGN2000 fine then? Luckily I have zero issues with mine.

Yep the replacement one is perfectly fine...which made me wonder why my first one just stopped working...i mean the original one i could still browse the net, download stuff but it wouldnt detect my xbox which is hardwired ie cable...the only port that seemed to work was port number one but all the other ports were dead..no lights or anything. So plugging my xbox into port one worked but any other port it was dead as doornail.

Spent nearly an hr on the phone to netgear trying different stuff out but to no avail so in the end they sent me out a new one and took my old one away.

Not the first time its happened with netgear routers...my old DG834N had a few issues...had that replaced but within a few mths that stopped working.

Skully · 11 Dec 2009 at 12:50

Got two Xbox's run on my network. One wireless, one cabled. Both Open Nat and both at the same time.

Didn't change any settings at all, but It makes me wonder if I had two wireless if it would be the same?

Banish · 12 Dec 2009 at 10:55

got the boxes with one DMZ and set the ips to each box, but still not working right