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Rax200 gaming help
So I recently bought a rax200 to hook up four gaming consoles. I have fiber to the house from my isp. I have also gotten a static ip which got rid of double nat type. Consoles lan in. And have reserved address. I have my nat type set to open and upnp enabled. It does grab work as I see it grabbing ports however the ports needed by both systems seems to be 3074 which for some reason only goes to one system. No matter what I have tried I keep getting moderate to strict on a few of them. If I port fwd or dmz that consoles in fine. I’m confused on how to proceed every YouTube video none seem to explain multiple console hook ups. Can have all four running and someone gonna get kicked eventually.
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Hello Cabledogs420,
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Christian
- As much as would love to since you only offer 90 days I’m out of warranty as I bought this over the summer. Unfortunately net gear don’t like there products or trust them enough to give out more then that. Which is why this will probably be my last netgear product. I have had four generations of netgear since nighthawk released and by far my biggest disappointment. Sad thing is my old routers did a better job then these so called gaming routers. If by now netgear don’t realize my houses have multiple systems and a way to get nat type open on all of them. Then they really haven’t been watching the landscape.
I am going through the same thing and youd think their top of the line model would be able to offer such simple requests. I can only get one console at a time to have OPEN NAT every other one will be moderate. I put nat filtering to open, Enabled UPNP same issues. I port forward but obviously only one device at a time can use the ports so thats no help. I really am going to give up on their products and just pay my ISP $5/month for their router. A buddy of mine has spectrum and three consoles all Open NAT and he didnt have to configure anything. Netgear support is trash.
i have a Rax200 and my ps4 is only on nat type 3 how do i change this ? becuase i can bearly play with friends
- There’s a couple different ways to do so but I do find the most efficient one for me is to port forward. I’ll always have open NAT and usually I end up the host of the game. It’s not very complicated but you’ll need a static IP set for your console & then get the ports needed for the game. Assuming it’s call of duty a google search of “ports for call of duty” will bring up the ones needed. If you don’t know how to there’s a few YouTube videos to reference. A user friendly way also would to make sure UPNP is on and Nat Filtering is set to Open. The reason I don’t do it this way is becuase this model seems to have a **bleep** upnp work up.
How do I connect my Gigabit Ethernet switch to my ps4 in a way that definitely works? Whenever I try and test the connection my achieve IP cope with fails and I am not sure the way to restoration it
- Did you ever get this problem fixed? If not and still want a option, you are going to need a different Router. The Netgear Nighthawk R7000, or the R7000P Both work right out of the box for this. Enable UPnP and in the router settings set Nat type to open. Problem will be solved. I haven't found a WiFi 6 option from any router company yet that can get this done. Hope this helps.
D-MEAD wrote:
Did you ever get this problem fixed? If not and still want a option, you are going to need a different Router. The Netgear Nighthawk R7000, or the R7000P Both work right out of the box for this. Enable UPnP and in the router settings set Nat type to open.This would create the NAT table as shown as above in my reply one might guess -> https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/Rax200-gaming-help/m-p/2045951/highlight/true#M16663
D-MEAD wrote:
Problem will be solved. I haven't found a WiFi 6 option from any router company yet that can get this done.Completely strange, considering there were at leas three different chipset makers with different dev kits.
What I wanted to ask - D-MEAD Fk-9?
- I don't know what you are asking. But the Netgear Nighthawk R7000 I bought in 2013 could do it. It died late last year. Tried most New WiFi 6 devices and couldn't find a solution. Bought a Netgear Nighthawk R7000p and right out of the box I've been able to get open Nat Type on 4 consoles. A Xbox One, 2PS4s and a PS5. No problems at all.
- The R7000 can have multiple open NATs? Does this not come down to us using IPv4 standard with one public IP which conflicts with us requesting multiple of the same ports to be open? I wonder how the R7000 is able to do so becuase you’re not the first person to say that specific router was able to accomplish this.
- Yes the Netgear Nighthawk R7000 I bought in 2013 could do this with UPnP on and going into settings and turning on open Nat type. The R7000p I have now gets up to 4 that I've tried. Xbox one, 2 PS4s, 1 PS5. Also have gotten it with X1, 3PS4s. The game I was testing this on is COD Cold War. Sometimes one of them or 2 will launch with Moderate. I will close the app, then launch a different game, then reopen the application and all will have Open Nat Type and all play at the same time. Have occasional drops in long Zombie's games. That is COD CW problem. Works great for multiplayer.
From your description in the first post, it seems like you are still suffering from a double NAT. If you have another router in front of the RAX200 that is not a transparent bridge such as a fiber ONT, then the RAX200 needs to be set to AP mode as the easiest way to avoiding a double NAT. A static IP will have no impact on a double NAT.
UPnP also does not help when on a double NAT, and port forwarding on the second router does not help much either.
- No double nat type... I have a static ip. My isp helped me from start to finish so I can gurantee it as my isp uses a router which was causing double nat type. no other router just the one. Verified with xboxes no double nat type…which before static ip had double nat type… also can get open on one device with port forwarding. this is known problem with this device. Which I had come to realize after the 20 something post on here not a big deal as I found a few work arounds to get it off at least strict. Upnp is just crap on this model which is fine. Netgear support knows it and says that can’t fix the problem oh well.
