How to put your 360 on a dmz

you have to contact XBOX tech to get port numbers then call ISP and get them to walk you through opening them, an hour of pain for a tonne of gain :wink: like I said in our convo , I spent over 5 hours between Xbox / Dlink / Bell figuring this out...

I know I am rock solid.

 

The ports you need to forward to the Xbox for Live are 88 (UDP) and 3074 (TCP & UDP).

 

Thanks Nino...I'll try that in a bit.

 

I have connected to my Belkin Pre-N router. Put the 360 on the DMZ with a static IP address. That put my NAT settings to "OPEN", and now I am able to connect to swiper.

This seems to be the key. If your settings for the Network Test say "moderate" or "strict" for NAT you cannot connect to some players.

 

i have a origo router can you help me set mine up as it is different

 

Hello Roddy i'm not sure if you've got things sorted yet but this site gives you step by step instructions.

http://www.portforward.com/

 

good info, thanx

 

my freind hasla wireless linskeys routar with cable speed connection.i was testing my xbl connection and my nat said moderate.earlier in the day,i couldnt connect a game to a guy in my league.i wanna get this nat from moderate to open.does anybody know what i gotta do or what to do?please answer asap.thanx
thats what he said can anyone help him

 

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/c...ethods/troubleshootliveconnection-testnat.htm

call the router manufacture for a how to on opening ports to make the NAT open, or call MS for further details

 

He figured it out but thanks anyway

 

so all in all whats this do? makes the connection faster from the modem through the router??

 

It won't make your connection faster, but it will open up ports so that your Xbox will connect to Live correctly. If your routers NAT shows up as Moderate or Strict to Live then that means it is potentially blocking some ports that Live uses to connect users, which is the main reason why people sometimes get dropped from a game or cannot connect at all.

 

I cant connect to live with my new router..I cant even get a IP address..what is wrong?


router is a Linksys Wireless G

 

on your 360 dash board go to the farthest blade to the right ( System )
Scroll down to Network Settings
Test Xbox Live Connection
there you should see :

Network Adapter:
IP Address: CONFIRMED
DNS: CONFIRMED
MTU: CONFIRMED
ICMP: CONFIRMED
Xbox Live: Connected
NAT: OPEN

at the very bottom right you will see Edit settings highlighted , click that to obtain your IP address....

enter that in DMZ and you should be good to go

 

it stops at IP, it wont get a IP from my computer

 

whats your set up? Is the xbox hard wired into the router or do you have a wireless adapater for it?

 

wireless adaptor.

It worked just fine with my old router..I just pluged it in and it worked

 

Thats the same setup that i have then. I have that problem sometimes when i just start up the wireless adapater. It goes to get IP then fails. Try rebooting your router, that always fixes it for me.

 

now when I test my connection it fails to get a IP address

 

no luck on the reset.

I am really stuck I guess..