Your NAT type is strict - what the hell?

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Not-here-anymore

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Nov 18, 2009
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Hi everyone

Back home, I found myself incapable of using xbox live to play online because my NAT type had decided to change spontaneously from open to strict (using BT). I thought no more of it once I got back to uni, but then my router here did the same thing (using O2)... (Interestingly, apparently I can still play Halo online, it's just MW2 that kicks up a fuss)

So, does anyone know how to change the NAT type? All the other advice I've had suggests resetting the router to factory settings, which gives me about a day before the NAT thing goes strict again. Nothing in the settings for either router suggests a way around it either.

Does anyone else have this problem? I was talking to a few friends about it, and they all seem to be struggling with the same thing.
 

afaceforradio

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Jul 29, 2009
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Try scanning your network again? Unplug and reconnect your wireless doodad and see if that works? I've never heard of that problem so this is purely guesswork I am afraid!