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TheMajorTool
Nov 09, 2015Aspirant
Xbox One Moderate NAT -- Black Ops 3
New to the forums and really looking for some help with my router. So, I just bought a new Nighthawk r7000 router to updgrade my gaming and overall internet experience. Unfortunately, I'm not a ver...
- Nov 09, 2015
You are supposed to use only one of available options to open ports (i.e. uPnP, Port forwarding, DMZ), not all of them. Pick one and disable the others. uPnP is preferred because it's automatic, but it depends on the quality of Netgear's implementation. If you find it doesn't work, then proceed to port forwarding. DMZ is the least preferred because of the danger of exposing your console directly to the Internet.
It's important to know whether your modem has a built in router. If it does, then you will have to contend with two layers of NAT and, therefore, two layers of closed ports. Bridging the modem disables the router functionality and eliminates this extra NAT layer. One way to tell if your modem has a router is to look at the IP address assigned to the yellow Internet port of your R7000. If it begins with either 10.x.y.z, 192.168.y.z, or 172.16.y.z then the modem is a router. Another way to tell is if the modem has built-in Wi-Fi.
TheMajorTool
Nov 09, 2015Aspirant
Thanks James. I contacted Time Warner Cable and they gave me the steps for bridging the modem. I'll list them -- please let me know if there's anything on their router settings that I shoule be doing.
- Login to Ubee Router -- 192.168.0.1 in address bar
- Enter coresponding password
- Select tools>operations
- Select Bridge mode and apply
- Logout of modem
- Reset modem and router
Thanks
stan_man
Nov 12, 2015Aspirant
Thanks.
I worked for 2 days trying to get open nat, turning on DMZ, UPnP, forwarding ports, nothing worked. Other than sometimes the nat for the xbox would stay open for a little while. And all I had to do was set my xfinity modem to bridge mode, and Black Ops 3 and the Xbox one have open nat. I did leave the port forwarding for the Xbox and Black Ops on. Thanks for the info.