Time Capsule, Xbox and NAT settings.

Hello there..
I recently moved to a new a apartment and since then, am I having nothing but trouble. I've been struggling with the NAT setting on my iMac, because of bad connections and warnings on my Xbox. I want to change the settings from "strict" to "open", but I have no idea how?...
I use the newest Time Capsule and my iMac is from late 2009.
Any help will be much appreciated, thanks!

Thank you so much for the fast feedback, but i think it's already turned off... When i go to my AirPort Manual Setup, and so on, does it say "Off (Bridge Mode)"...?
I if it's any help: In my last apartment I had one modem and a Time Capsule. The modem supplied the Internet from our TV cable (I think) and then my Time Capsule that took the internet and made it wireless. I don't know if it's any help, but we didn't have any problems back then.
Now we only have my Time Capsule, that's using a regular internet cable from a little tiny white box that's hanging on our kitchen wall.
PS: My Time Capsule didn't create a new network when I moved, it kept the password, the networks name and maybe some settings? I don't know and I still don't have any idea on how to fix it...
Again, thank you so much for your reply!
Message was edited by: vfrederik

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