Opening NAT on 360 with WRT54GS

I've looked at all of the suggestions, opened ports, have the latest firmware, etc
NAT still shows as moderate.
Please help

I have two xbox 360's both with the USB wireless adapter from microsoft. I used to have a router that wouldn't let both connect to xbox live at the same time. In the process of trying to make the last router work with both xboxes, I manually set the IP addresses and DNS addresses to the 192.168.1.x subnet that the router is on.
Each xbox could connect to xbox live with OPEN NAT but not both at the same time. I found that uPnp was supposed to allow multiple xboxes over the same broadband connection. I found this router WRT54GS on the compatible list at xbox live, so I bought one.
I setup a new password, SSID, wep key and adjusted the DHCP address range. Other than that I didn't do squat to the router. It had firmware version 7.50.2.
The 1st XBOX showed as MODERATE NAT, when I tested XBOX live. I thought about it awhile and didn't want to do the port forwarding, triggering, or DMZ stuff--because all of that twiddling didn't help with the last router. I decided that maybe I needed to let the router give the IP addresses through DHCP and maybe then uPnp would work and the box would be OPEN NAT.
Well, it worked. I set both xboxes to automatic on IP address and DNS and then both tested with OPEN NAT. I was able to have both xboxes on different xbox live gold accounts play slayer matches at the same time on Halo 3 and was able to have them both connect via Xbox live into the same forge session.
I hope this helps and gives some clues to try.

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