How to see your current NAT type: Scroll left from Home to open the guide. Google is your friend! Make sure to restart your router and hard restart your xbox after each setting change. The model is generally on a sticker beneath the router, or labeled on the top. I cannot detail how to's on each router that exists so it will be up to you to look up the model of your router, how to access it, and where to find each settings. If so, then lets move on and take a look at some of the options we have to get an open NAT.ĭetermining the best setting for your router depends on if you have 1 or more xbox's on the network you intend to use at the same time. If you have UPNP on and you are having these problems, take a look at the comments of this post at the “Advanced Settings/Tweaks” and make sure your NAT filtering is also set to open, and SIP ALG is disabled.
Ideally your routers UPNP will work as intended and you will never have to change any settings, but your not reading this because that’s the case are you? Unfortunately UPNP is not a universally standardized feature, and therefore does not always work as intended. Sounds great, so the doors should be open, and xbox can send mail, everythings great. UPNP – Universal Plug And Play, is a feature on your router that is intended to open thoose doors for you when you want to send mail, and waits to receive the reply mail before closing thoose doors again. Your router keeps those doors closed, and unfortunately your xbox wants to send and receive mail from a few specific doors. Similarly imagine 1000's of doors that mail can be dropped off onto your internet address. Unfortunately yes, to continue with the internet address as a house example we need to take it one step further and imagine that your house, had 1000's of doors that the mail could be dropped into.įor security reasons you wouldint leave your door (Your door would be a Port in network terms) open for the mailman to drop off your letters.
So I need to configure my router to have an open NAT, but there’s more to it? Often a router will do this for you automatically, but many models of routers either have difficulties with this, or are not optimally configured for the XBOX. To get your NAT to open, you must configure your router (The device which is responsible for doing NAT) to allow an open NAT type. If your NAT is not open, you may have difficulty playing games, joining/talking in parties, and various other difficulties on the XBOX. So I'm stuck with NAT, how do I get it open and why does it matter? What would happen if you did not have NAT? Aside from some other technical mumbojumbo that would be very bad for the IT world, you could only have 1 device on your internet at once. NAT allows your home devices to have a name on your “internet mail” so that when you send mail and get a reply, it knows which device sent the original letter. If there are multiple people who live with you, and you received mail that did not have your name on it, how would you know who that mail was meant for? NAT (Network Address Translation) in simple terms is a technology that allows multiple game systems, computers etc to be on the internet at once, with only one internet address (IP Address) If you are interested in a bit more information on how and why, read just below. To get to the how to, skip down to the “HOW DO I MAKE THIS WORK” Section below. There are a lot of questions surrounding NAT, getting an open NAT, what it does and why does it not always work as intended? The views of the moderation team do not reflect the view of Microsoft or its subsidiaries. Note: We are not affiliated with Microsoft or its subsidiaries in any official capacity. Showoff Sunday - all pictures of achievements, gamerscore, controllers, custom art/mods, battle stations, and so forth are only allowed as posts on Sundays. posts must be within the weekly megathread. and posts must be properly tagged or they will be removed.
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