Opening my routers NAT.

[Whoolpurse]

Hello escapists, I happen to be the owner of a TG712 Router. It works perfectly fine.
BUT, when I try to acces the online part in any rockstar game (for the xbox360), gta 4 or Red Dead Redemption, My NAT is too strict, I can't enter most games, the few i do manage to get into kicks me out after 5 minutes, I've spend countless hours searching the internet for a solution to this problem, without luck. I'm no computer whiz and all those port and whatnot is more confusing than helpful, So I was wondering if anyone from this website could maybe help me with my annoying little problem. (I can play games such as Battlefield bad company 2 just fine online btw.)

I would be super grateful!

 

[azncutthroat]

Try this. [http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/nxe/xboxlive/troubleshooting/networkrouter.aspx]

 

[wasalp]

what you could do is access your routers ui threw a web browser and put your xbox in the DMZ. If your router doesn't give you a list of all mac addresses connected to it you should check online to see how to get your xbox's mac address. DMZ is demilitarized zone it makes it so your router applies no restriction to the traffic going to and coming from the selected device it also means your not protected from hackers and what not, I figure its not such a big problem since an xbox cant really get hacked anyhow if you don't know how to access your router go to this website--->http://portforward.com/. It has a list of almost every router out there.

 

[Whoolpurse]

what you could do is access your routers ui threw a web browser and put your xbox in the DMZ. If your router doesn't give you a list of all mac addresses connected to it you should check online to see how to get your xbox's mac address. DMZ is demilitarized zone it makes it so your router applies no restriction to the traffic going to and coming from the selected device it also means your not protected from hackers and what not, I figure its not such a big problem since an xbox cant really get hacked anyhow if you don't know how to access your router go to this website--->http://portforward.com/. It has a list of almost every router out there.

Well, As I mentioned I'm no computer wiz, could you maybe simplify that slightly?

 

[wasalp]

if you go to portfoward.com they give you simple step by step instructions with pictures to help.

 

[Whoolpurse]

thank you everybody, It worked!