Hey guys, recently, I was having trouble with connecting to games and slow connection speeds on my 360. I ran the test and my NAT said, moderate. Upon researching further it appeared that this was hindering my ability to connect to games and/or parties. So, I decided to research further and see if I could fix this problem for a day of gaming goodness tomorrow (day off of school and work. )

Upon reading more, it was made abundantly clear that I didn't have an XBOX live compatible router. The easiest solution would be for me to go to best buy and spend 40-80 bucks (or whatever routers cost now-a-days) and get one with the XBOX Live Certified logo. Seeing as I'm poor I opted against that and turned to my best friend. Google.

Google turned up a few promising sites but this one looked the easiest, and it made me laugh, so I tried this one first. Make your router Xbox Live compatible I was originally looking for the port forwarding, virtual servers and UPnP stuff after I accessed my router but I couldn't find them. But I did stumble across the fact that my router has a DMZ. So I just put in my 360 IP and voila! My NAT is now open.

And I know it looks a little bit scary, but don't be a pussy. Just do it. I'm totally computer illiterate and I kicked my NAT's ass. It was all "No, I'm better than you, I won't do what you say!!" Then, I was all "You will do what I say and I'll be on you faster than 2 donkies eatin a waffle."

CLIFF Notes: Find your 360 IP via the network tab on the dashboard, log into your router, and change the DMZ to active and put in your XBOX 360 IP. If you don't have a DMZ, then I don't know. Good luck!

DISCLAIMER: I will take no responsibility for you screwing up your intarnets and not being able to complete your V8 swap due to not being able to log onto this forum!

PS: Feel free to add rep.

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Fucking sweet man I'm on it!!!!!

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Josh
I will finish your LS1 swap PM me!
74 MGB GT V8 12.83 (75 shot)
93 LS1/T56 Rule 3 No V8 RX7's

You are the MAN. Took me 3 secs now its open and I can kill little kids with no proublems!!!! lol is halo that is!

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Josh
I will finish your LS1 swap PM me!
74 MGB GT V8 12.83 (75 shot)
93 LS1/T56 Rule 3 No V8 RX7's

Yep, noticed it was being a bitch to join games in forza 2. Been meaning to do this.

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LS6 FC

The way given is probably the easiest....i used the port fowarding method though.

I just set it up so my xbox has a fixed ip on my network then fowarded the following ports to it in the router setup.

UDP: 88
UDP+TCP: 3074

setting up a Dmz will only work for some. Your best bet is to set up the port forwarding. NAT is still tricky for me after 5 years of router configs.

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09 TBSS AWD, 95 RX7 02 LS1/T56

I have no idea what you guys are talking. Since whatever your doing is working, more power to you.

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86 GXL - LQ9 T56 bolt-on junky

I've actually got a cheapo router out front of my network as it had a simple DMZ setup on it. Everything else bounces to my linux router and my Cisco PIX honeypot. I suppose someone could hack my XBOX if they could figure out how... I guess, more power to them if they figure that out.

My network is needlessly complicated, but it at least entertains me.

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Blake

2006 Crew: Team Spiderman/Hulk Top Fuel Motorcycle
10 Time World Champions, World Record Holders for 1/4 E/T: 5.749

Blake,

Just fix it so we can pwn n00bs.

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