Smithaveli
10-03-2008, 01:40 PM
Alright, I am quite tech savvy. Yet, no matter what solution I attempt, my NAT remains STRICT. Which is a very BAD thing. A lot of times I am excluded from games in CoD4, because 5/6 people in our party can connect ot the host. Myself being the 6th person who gets the error "Cannot Connect to Host"
it actually happens alot. It even stops me from even attempting to JOIN THE PARTY, before they even launch the matchmaking. These people are on my friends list, mid you, but for some reason, our connections don't want to meet, unless theres a go between. For example, ABC play together, but if B makes the party isntead of A, C cannot join, and if C makes the party, B cannot join. Get it?
Anyways, I have assigned a static IP to my Xbox, and have opened the suggested ports; 88 UDP, 3074 UDP/TCP. No worky.
I have assigned my Xbox a static IP and used the DMZ option on my router to make the Xbox my DMZ. No worky.
I have turned on the UPnP setting on my router. No worky.
Yes, I tried all of these individually, because I AM aware that complications occur if I try to port forward while theres a DMZ active, or if I try to port Forward while UPnP is active and all that good stuff.
The thing is, my problem continues to persist, no matter what solution I try. So my only solution is that im not veyr tech savvy, and im missing a very key step here. I've been to Portforward.com, so please do not direct me there, as whatever they are telling me to do, I am following to an exact T.
So if anyone here can be generous enough to give me a step by step exact detail on how they got their NAT open, I would HUGELY appreciate it.
it actually happens alot. It even stops me from even attempting to JOIN THE PARTY, before they even launch the matchmaking. These people are on my friends list, mid you, but for some reason, our connections don't want to meet, unless theres a go between. For example, ABC play together, but if B makes the party isntead of A, C cannot join, and if C makes the party, B cannot join. Get it?
Anyways, I have assigned a static IP to my Xbox, and have opened the suggested ports; 88 UDP, 3074 UDP/TCP. No worky.
I have assigned my Xbox a static IP and used the DMZ option on my router to make the Xbox my DMZ. No worky.
I have turned on the UPnP setting on my router. No worky.
Yes, I tried all of these individually, because I AM aware that complications occur if I try to port forward while theres a DMZ active, or if I try to port Forward while UPnP is active and all that good stuff.
The thing is, my problem continues to persist, no matter what solution I try. So my only solution is that im not veyr tech savvy, and im missing a very key step here. I've been to Portforward.com, so please do not direct me there, as whatever they are telling me to do, I am following to an exact T.
So if anyone here can be generous enough to give me a step by step exact detail on how they got their NAT open, I would HUGELY appreciate it.