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AC1900 R7000 port forwarding for NAT type 2 on PS4
Helllo, I have recently purchased the R7000|AC1900 Nighthawk Router. I am trying to play online games like Call of Duty Warzone and Madden 21. I keep getting NAT type 3 which is strict and can not pl...
the link from the prior dmz posts walks you through it.
> I don't know how to do the port forwarding or the DMZ option.
If you're connecting your router (WAN/Internet port) to some other,
hidden router, over which you have no control, then there's not much
which you can do. Those options apply to the router closest to the
(actual) ISP, not to some add-on thing like your R7000 which is
connected to that router.
You might want to configure your R7000 as a wireless access point,
which might remove one layer of NAT, but that'd have privacy
implications between you and your neighbors.
> the link from the prior dmz posts walks you through it.
_If_ you have admin control over the relevant router. Which, I
assume, you don't.
- I only have my router hooked up to my wall port that is provided by my ISP. I went to my router and put my PS4 IP address into the DMZ server and I still get NAT type 3.
> I only have my router hooked up to my wall port that is provided by my
> ISP. [...]The non-psychics in your audience might have no idea what's behind
that wall.> [...] I went to my router [...]
That might help if your R7000 were the problem, which is not yet
obvious.> [...] put my PS4 IP address into the DMZ server [...]
What was that address? (And did you use Address Reservation to
prevent your PS4 from wandering around?)What's the IP address of the WAN/Internet interface of your R7000
(ADVANCED > ADVANCED Home : Internet Port : Internet IP Address)?While we're at it, what's its firmware version?
- I got it to work. I am able to play online games now but the one game I want to play, COD WZ, only allows a certain amount of people on the IP address port at once. So it’s like limited and I can’t play. So close but yet so far. Thanks to everyone for the help.