BT Home Hub vs NAT Strict

[pryomancer]

Well I have a BT Home Hub router, which I use to connect wirelessly (I have an Xbox adapter on my 360) to Xbox Live.

 

 

 

My NAT setting is always on Strict, no matter what I try, it won't budge.

 

 

 

Of course it doesn't stop me playing, but it's there in the back of my mind constantly annoying me, plus communication with team mates is sometimes jittery.

 

 

 

I've tried-

 

 

 

reseting the router

 

unplugging it and leaving it for a while before plugging it back in

 

something to do with ports

 

upnp is enabled on my Home Hub settings page

 

 

 

I'm at a loss and may kill myself, that or sue Microsoft for $5, who knows.

[Latinoking]

I'm at a loss and may kill myself...

 

 

 

Please don't try that option.

 

 

 

Maybe uninstall it and reinstall it?

[pryomancer]

Not really an option I want to try, usually it's a real pain in the [wagon] to get connected again.

[Nadril]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/conne ... ipment.htm

 

 

 

 

 

It isn't compatible with the 360, so that is why you are getting a strict NAT. The only option really is to get a new one, although you could try and mess with the settings but it usually doesn't help.

[pryomancer]

Well the thing is, about a week ago my NAT was open.

 

For a few days it was then it reverted back to strict.

 

 

 

And I also read somewhere that all routers are compatable with Xbox Live, just the ones not on the official lust are ones that an average user couldn't figure out quickly with just some buttons and plugging in etc.

[ooberman]

Well the thing is, about a week ago my NAT was open.

 

For a few days it was then it reverted back to strict.

 

 

 

That is probably because the homehub updates itself automatically without you knowing and therefore changed the status of your nat settings.

 

 

 

The homehub is compatible with xbox live, it just isn't on the official list.

 

Go Here and follow the istructions. If you are not comfortable doing so, ask a friend who is comfortable doing it for some help.

 

 

 

And go Here for all your xbox live needs.

 

 

 

Good luck

 

oober

[pryomancer]

 

The homehub is compatible with xbox live, it just isn't on the official list.

 

Go Here and follow the istructions. If you are not comfortable doing so, ask a friend who is comfortable doing it for some help.

 

 

 

And go Here for all your xbox live needs.

 

 

 

Good luck

 

oober

 

 

 

I've tried that too. :x

 

That's a good site though, helped me out when choosing which connection I needed for Xbox Live etc.

[Vidi]

Make sure the XBL ports are open (88, 3074) and if it doesn't go to atleast moderate, make your 360 the DMZ host. Having all the settings set to manual helped for me too. If that doesn't work there's only one solution, which is, as you probally guessed a new router. I'm pretty sure it should work with XBL tho, weren't MS doing a deal with the BT Home Hub for XBL?

[pryomancer]

I'm not sure if my Xbox shows up on the list of devices connected to my network.

 

 

 

It currently shows-

 

 

 

my main pc which is directly connected to the router via ethernet

 

my pc in my room, wireless

 

my sisters laptop, wireless

 

and an unknown device which looks like this: Unknown-02-18-f6-0a-e7-9e

 

is the unknown device my 360?

[Vidi]

If your router is passworded it most likely is. I've never checked heh.

[ooberman]

That is probably your xbox mac address. You can check by going into the xbox dashboard and check in the network settings.

 

 

 

oober

[pryomancer]

I've looked in the network settings and theres nothing there that resembles that mac address.

 

There's an alternate mac address, but that's not the same as the one on my bt home hub's devices list.

[ooberman]

Ok, try disconnecting the xbox 360, then have a look and see if that unkown device is still there.

 

 

 

oober

[ooberman]

Just for the record, you are looking in the correct place?

 

 

 

network settings>edit settings>additional settings >advanced settings.

 

at the bottom of the page under wired mac address.

 

 

 

oober

[pryomancer]

Yeah I looked in there, there is a mac address under 'wired mac address', but it's not the one I found on my Devices list in the Home Hub page.

 

Also, it says the mac address is connected to an ethernet port, when I'm using a wireless adapter for my Xbox.

 

 

 

Since the mac address on my 360 isn't showing up on my router, how would I go about putting it on there?

[ooberman]

It may be the homehub firewall blocking your xbox, I'm not overly familiar with the homehub interface, but if you go into the homehub configuration pages, you will see some sort of option for the firewall settings, see if your device is blocked in there, if not there may be an option to add, or allow a device. try adding the xbox using it's ip address or mac address

 

 

 

As I say, I'm not that familiar with the homehub interface, so you may well want to await more assistance from someone with more knowledge of the homehub.

 

 

 

oober