Is having an open NAT type bad?(MW2)

I ask bc i just switched my xbox to wireless. My NAT type was NAT 3 when it was wired.

Now thats its open, my matches are horrible! It lags where im playing in slow-mo. Plus, my router is a wireless N. What the hell's going on?

open is the best type of nat to have. It means your connection accepts all traffic.

open is the best type of nat to have. It means your connection accepts all traffic.

Gen007

yep open is very good strict is very bad

i dont understand. every match im on theres the same lag. Im wondering, could it be bc i have the old wireless adapter for my xbox. since im not using wireless g..?Solid-CELL

playing MW2 i cant get past the fetching playlists box with my NAT open, i have to get it to moderate to play online

playing MW2 i cant get past the fetching playlists box with my NAT open, i have to get it to moderate to play online

Overlord93

really? i've never heard of that before.

an open NAT is good, a wireless connection is not. it's always better to have a wired connection, if your using wireless you'll almost always have almost half the connection you normally would if you had it wired. Wireless is really the "last resort" option.

playing MW2 i cant get past the fetching playlists box with my NAT open, i have to get it to moderate to play online

Overlord93

Me too! Yesterday i decided to change my NAT to open just because i had been hearing from everyone that its so much better that way, and from the moment i did it my connection has been efffffed up. it takes me about 10 min to find a match and when i do get in my connection is so bad that there is no point in even trying to play. And when i changed it back to moderate, the connection was a teeny tiny bit better but not even close to how fast it was before I started messing with it.

I can't figure out what the problem is and its driving me nuts. I'm using a wired connection, static ip is set, ports forwarded, and i even tried enabling DMZ but nothing seems to help. Any suggestions?

my connection has been having problems lately anyway, not just mw2.

and its comcast. maybe there is just a large re-routing issues, which is making it lag for more people along those paths.

just a thought, NAT (network address translation) affects lag very little, -what it does do however is determine who you can connect to, thus results in a laggy match if all you can connect to are a bunch of other bad connections.

i say everyone should powercycle... try wired once.. and see what all it does for everyone.

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playing MW2 i cant get past the fetching playlists box with my NAT open, i have to get it to moderate to play online

otaku_dono

Me too! Yesterday i decided to change my NAT to open just because i had been hearing from everyone that its so much better that way, and from the moment i did it my connection has been efffffed up. it takes me about 10 min to find a match and when i do get in my connection is so bad that there is no point in even trying to play. And when i changed it back to moderate, the connection was a teeny tiny bit better but not even close to how fast it was before I started messing with it.

I can't figure out what the problem is and its driving me nuts. I'm using a wired connection, static ip is set, ports forwarded, and i even tried enabling DMZ but nothing seems to help. Any suggestions?