xbox NAT settings

[steviegsi]

How can i change the NAT settings on my xbox? its coming up as strict at the minute and takes ages to get a game on xbox live. Had a look through the menus/options but can't find anything of use, and i don't want to start changing settings on pc ( if thats what i need to do??) without a bit of guidance.

[AndrewJenkins]

you cant mate its usually rubbish conection from the router so the xbox will only allow you to find the best game possible to aviod lag sometime resetting the router fixes this but other than that not sure

[Jon_nova1]

so your have your xbox running through your pc?

[Nova_Tek]

Is that the Network Address Translation? That can/should be set from your router mate.

[steviegsi]

you cant mate its usually rubbish conection from the router so the xbox will only allow you to find the best game possible to aviod lag sometime resetting the router fixes this but other than that not sure



That would make sense as I'm running it wireless. Although I haven't changed anything and it worked perfectly up til now

[Jon_nova1]

you want to do what i do, buy a 20 metre ethernet cable and run it directly from the router/modem to the 360:thumb:

[steviegsi]

Got one of them but router to xbox is up 2 half stair case, don't think papa smurf would be to happy with 7mm wire stuck to his Walls all way round the house lol

[NOVA_LEE]

anything over 10ft cable youll start losing siganal:thumb:

[bungle117]

you cant mate its usually rubbish conection from the router so the xbox will only allow you to find the best game possible to aviod lag sometime resetting the router fixes this but other than that not sure

yes you can http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908874/en-gb?sd=xbox that link may help you thousands of people have this issue and can be fixed quite easily you tube has tutorials on the problem and http://www.xbox.com
has a support page on this :)

[Stuart]

anything over 10ft cable youll start losing siganal:thumb:
errrrrrrr
CAT5 is good for 100M continual runs.

Lunatic, worst case you could try the mains networking stuff, its fairly cheap for 2 adaptors now

[Dom]

well my nat type is moderate and im using a 25m cat5 cable after asking on xvox live why its moderate someone did explain its to do with you network settings but it all went straight over my head lol

[Jon_nova1]

the simple solution would be to connect straight to the modem then lol

before i got my cable i used to route it through the PC and use the pc's wireless card, the nat settings were different everytime i fired it up lol

[novautd]

Got one of them but router to xbox is up 2 half stair case, don't think papa smurf would be to happy with 7mm wire stuck to his Walls all way round the house lol

Mate I've got a 30 meter cable going up 2 staircases. Get it done!

[steviegsi]

yes you can http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908874/en-gb?sd=xbox that link may help you thousands of people have this issue and can be fixed quite easily you tube has tutorials on the problem and http://www.xbox.com
has a support page on this :)


cheers mate i'll get a look at that.


Thanks for your help everyone! :thumb: