How to Change NAT to OPEN

Well, myself as well as many other people are stuck with their NAT settings set to STRICT. Unfortunately, this makes your online play, depending on the game, a little sucky. So, I tried to find out, and I did. This might not be the nail in the coffin to your internet issues, but it worked for me.

So, you first have to find your Admin Panel for your router/gateway (usually accessed by typing the IP address in the addressbar of your internet browser). Then you have to get into the advanced settings and configure something called the UPnP (Universal Plug'n'Play). This normally is set to be DISABLED, but that's not what you want. Go in andENABLE it, but don'tscrew around with anything else, and it might screw up your wireless internet. Then you should save the settings to the router/gateway, and restart both your router/gateway, and your XBOX360. When you run the test again, it should read as OPEN, and you should have no more problems with XBOX Live.

PM me if you have any questions, or if you just need more details.

I don't have just an enable option, these are the options:

• Disable UPnP

• Enable Discovery and Advertisement only (SSDP)

• Enable full Internet Gateway Device (IGD) support

Extra Options:

• Enable access logging

• Read-only mode

Which do I choose?

I wish Stealth Gunner would open my NAT.--Wolf--

GET OUTT --Trollf-- (yea creative huh)

Anyway I need to know because the test says the NAT is strict even after I opened all the ports:(

I don't have just an enable option, these are the options:

• Disable UPnP

• Enable Discovery and Advertisement only (SSDP)

• Enable full Internet Gateway Device (IGD) support

Extra Options:

• Enable access logging

• Read-only mode

Which do I choose?

Stealth-Gunner

I'll tell you the truth. I'm not sure. I go with the last two in the first category. I would test each option at a time, and if they don't work then, try combining them. Just sorta a trial and error deal for you.

If neither of those work, lemme know.

What type of router do you have?

i have wirelessinternet, no modem or router, is there anything i can do

when I had trouble with NAT I found this little article http://hushedcasket.com/node/1724 had to interpret the instructions to work with a philips rather than a ****** router but it helped me :)

This does not work for me as the Linksys page only comes up about halfway and it does not let me do anything on the page. I tried IE and Firefox...why do I always have the issues no one else does? Why would the Linksys site not work for me? Help!

I have a linksys WRT54G3G-ST its made for a wireless broadband card from verizon...MainSniper23

i had a wrt54g and it pissed me off so bad with my xbox that i bought a netgear specifically set up for gaming.