Router info
Author: Chris Brammeier
Got a new DG834GT yesterday and plugged it in and got it all set up and working last night once I did that I did a test on xbox live and found that I had a moderate NAT. So I did a bit of digging and found that I had to let the xbox live connection through the firewall so I set it up a static IP and sorted all the firewall rules out and tested again and low and behold I had an open NAT. I thought finally I will be able the play on xbox live against all people.
Then I loaded it up today and thought just for the sheer hell of it I'll do a network test and marvel at the fact I have an open NAT. Test came back that I have a moderate NAT again.
So I tested it a few ways round. First I looked at the router setup page and found that UPnP was on and changed Ad Time to 1 minute and time to live to 10 in the hope that it would pick up my xbox but it didn't. My xbox also wasn't apearing in the port map table. But not to be disappointed and just to be sure I added a few new services to the firewall, the ports that xbox live needs. and I test again but still a moderate NAT so I turn UPnP off and still a moderate NAT. Turning the firewall off I get a strict NAT so the firewall is letting data through but UPnP is not working.
How do I get UPnP to work again?
P.S. I have done multiple cold boots to flush out the UPnP but to no avail
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