WRT160N and 2 Xboxs

Hello Everyone,
I have a bit of a problem which I'm sure has been mentioned here several times before. I did a quick search and couldn't find anything and have scoured the internet for days with no answer at all. Basically what the problem is, I have 2 xbox 360's in my house, mine and my brothers. Before the second xbox came into play I never once had a NAT issue. Now that there are two xbox 360's if I turn mine on first I get the open NAT and my brother will have Strict NAT and vice versa. Now I know that its a port issue somewhere in the router being that one xbox is taking priority in the ports needed while the other one struggles to get the same ports. I had a wired router a BEFSR81 and had this NAT problem, however I think I fried it up after doing a firmware upgrade over the wireless access point I had attached to the router, so its dead and I replaced it with this WRT160N because I heard that any router windows 7 or vista certified will work 100% with xbox live. But with this new router I'm in the same boat except now one xbox gets an open NAT and the other gets a Moderate NAT. Which isn't as bad as the strict problem, but its still annoying. I have tried port forwarding, DMZing, and giving static ip's to each xbox. Still no real answer to this issue. I heard that I should use port triggering to open ports to both xbox's, however on this new router the WRT160N when I click on port triggering I can not enter anything into any of the fields given, its almost like its deactivated. I know it is possible to run 2 xbox 360's on one router both with open NAT because I have several friends who do the same thing I'm trying to do, play a good ol game of Modern Warfare with his brother. If anyone can help me out or shed some light on this issue please do so, id greatly appreciate it.
Crazed.

ok, so i have figured out that you put the same ports in for both the trigger and forward range. I did as that website said, and still no fix to this issue. One xbox still gets open nat and the other gets strict depending on who was on first. This is getting to be extremely frustrating, no one has an answer on how to fix this. It makes no sence im sure im not the only person out in the world who has more than one xbox in a household trying to play together online. Why doesnt anyone have support for this issue or creat a product that solves this. im sure there are many gamers out there who want excatly what i do. Does anyone else have some sort of idea?

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Problems with WRT160N and Xbox 360 - please help

Hello,
I have recently purchased a WRT160N router and when I play games online (Halo 3 or Modern Warfare 2) it takes around 10 min to find a game while in the lobby. I don't get kicked out or signed out of my profile it just takes a long time. It says that my NAT type is Open. I have isolated that the problem is the router because if I plug an ethernet cable from the 360 to the DSL modem I find games instantly. I have looked up port forwarding and opened the ports on the 360 and specifically for modern warfare 2 and it actually made my NAT type go to strict, ironic. I have spent 5 hours trying to mess with this and can't seem to get it working right. If someone could please help me on the settings or have any other ideas that would be greatly appreciated.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I have already tried reducing the MTU as well as the Beacon Level, Threshold, and Fragmentation. That did not work. To get the ip address of the modem is where I do cmd prompt ipconfig right. If so, I have not done that yet and since I am at work I will do that when I get home. the ports I have opened on the router for the xbox were 80, 88, 53, and 3074. Like I said when I did that it actually got worse cause my NAT was open but then it went to Strict.

WRT160N and Xbox 360

I just recently purchased a WRT160N v.3 and I'm trying to configure it wirelessly to my XBOX 360 via the wireless adapter, but my Xbox cannot connect. I have searched the forums and have tried steps like this:
Access routersetup page ....
Please click on the tab "Application and gaming" and click on sub
tab "Port range forwarding"
1) On the first line in Application box type in "Xbox", in start box
type in 88, in end box type in 88, in protocol keep it both, in ip
address type in 192.168.1.20 and give a check mark on enable box.
2)   On the second line in Application box type in "Xbox", in start box
type in 3074, in end box type in 3074, in protocol keep it both, in ip
address type in 192.168.1.20 and give a check mark on enable box.
3) Now save the settings
4) Once you return to the setup page, click on the tab "Administration"
and disable the UPNP and save the settings.
5) Now assign the given ip address on your xbox
   ip address :- 192.168.1.20
   subnet mask :- 255.255.255.0
   default gateway :- 192.168.1.1
Please assign the dns address on the xbox
primary dns :- 4.2.2.2
secondary dns :- 192.168.1.1
6) Please try to test your xbox live.
But it does not seem to work, I have a Verizon modem (6100F) hooked up to the router as well and the internet connection is fine, could anyone help?
Message Edited by denapro on 09-21-2009 08:02 AM

Note that my xbox would NOT connect to my router until I put in a WPA2 password for the router that was all caps and no numbers. Not sure why this was. Hope that helps you/someone else.

WRT160N and Xbox

First, I am having no problem getting connected to Xbox Live. My NAT is open, Bridge is open, and my router is updated.
My problem is that I am having trouble getting connected to one person. For some reason his and my internets do not like each other at all.
Now that Borderlands 2 has came out, if he sends me a game or party invite, I can't join. Same way if I send him an invite. It's not like this for that game alone, we haven't been able to get connected together for any game in the past.
I can invite other friends and they have no problem joining, same with him if he invites people to his own game, and the same goes for other friends inviting me. No problem join game or party. This only happens if we are the only two online and we try to send each other invites. It ain't happening.
I am really lost on what needs to be done, so anyone with any ideas is greatly appreciated. I would imagine it's something in my router that needs changed, but not sure what. Please ask questions if you have any to help me out.

I really don't think it has anything to do with the router or its settings. I've had invite problems in the past. I think it's due to game or its servers or someone inadvertently blocked something in the game itself.
If you want to test. Go to security tab on linksys and uncheck box "block/filter anonymous Internet requests". Then give your friend your public IP address. Then have him/her ping your router. And vice versa.

WRT160n and Xbox 360 Internet connection issues

I just got this router and it is working fine in getting connection but me and my roommates are having issues with the NAT type when playing xbox. As far as i know, two are hooked into the LAN via ethernet cable and the other is using wireless. When playing we all experience different levels of NAT type, Strict, Moderate, and Open. Is there a way to set up the router so that the NAT will stay open for all of us at the same time. The only way to get that now is to unplug the router just as we want to get on and play.
War Eagle.
Frattleship

Who is your ISP...?
How many X-Box do you have...?
Have you open the ports on the router...?
Also check this link.

Linksys WRT160N v2 and Xbox 360 LIVE problem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44RLYjoP7U
i've opened ports 53,88,3074,80, but it didn't help
i've also set MTU to 1452 and everything what it already said on this site.
check the link, for more info.
Please help me.
Before this one, I had WRT54G and it was the same.
Oh, and I'm using an original wireless adapter.
My router firmware is 2.0.02.

I think you need to change some settings on your router as well as on your XBOX 360 to make them communicate with each other. Here are some settings which you can try it on your XBOX as well as on your Router...
Open an Internet Explorer browser page.In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1Leave the username blank & in password use admin in lower case...
Click on "Applications and Gaming" tab and then click on "Port Range Forwarding" subtab...
1) On the first line in Application box type in ABC, in the start box type in 53 and End box type in 53, leave the protocol as both and under ip address type in 192.168.1.20 and check the enable box...
2) On the second line in Application box type in PQR, in the start box type in 88 and End box type in 88, leave the protocol as both and under ip address type in 192.168.1.20 and check the enable box...
3) On the third line in Application box type in XYZ, in the start box type in 3074 and End box type in 3074, leave the protocol as both and under ip address type in 192.168.1.20 and check the enable box and click on Save Settings...
4) Once you return to the set up page click on the Security tab and uncheck Block Anonymous Internet Requests and click on Save Settings...
5) Click on set-up and change the MTU Size to 1365 and click Save Settings...
6) Goto the XBox Network Settings and IP Address Settings and select manual IP Settings and assign the following on your Xbox
IP Address :- 192.168.1.20, Subnet Mask :- 255.255.255.0, Default Gateway :- 192.168.1.1...
7) Also assign the DNS Addresses on the Xbox
Primary dns :- 4.2.2.2...Secondary dns :- 192.168.1.1
8) Turn off your modem, router, and Xbox...Wait for a minute...
9) Plug the modem power first, wait for another minute and plug the router power cable, wait another minute and turn on the Xbox and test it...it will connect...

Hooking up Linksys WRT160N to XBOX live

When testing the XBox live it says I had a NAT moderate problem. Talked with the XBOX folks and they said that I need to open the following ports on my router: TCP 80, UDP 88, UDP 3074, TCP 3074, UDP 53, and TCP 53. Not sure how to do this.

Open an Internet Explorer browser page.In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1
Leave username blank & in password use admin in lower case...
Click on "Applications and Gaming" tab and then click on "Port Range Forwarding" subtab...
1) On the first line in Application box type in ABC, in the start box type in 88 and End box type in 88, leave the protocol as both and under ip address type in 192.168.1.20 and check the enable box...
2) On the second line in Application box type in PQR, in the start box type in 3074 and End box type in 3074, leave the protocol as both and under ip address type in 192.168.1.20 and check the enable box...
3) On the third line in Application box type in XYZ, in the start box type in 53 and End box type in 53, leave the protocol as both and under ip address type in 192.168.1.20 and check the enable box and click on Save Settings...
3) Once you return to the set up page click on the Security tab and uncheck Block Anonymous Internet Requests and click on Save Settings...
4) Click on set-up and change the MTU Size to 1452 and click Save Settings...
5) Goto the XBox Network Settings and IP Address Settings and select manual IP Settings and assign the following on your Xbox
IP Address :- 192.168.1.20, Subnet Mask :- 255.255.255.0, Default Gateway :- 192.168.1.1...
6) Also assign the DNS Addresses on the Xbox
Primary dns :- 4.2.2.2...Secondary dns :- 192.168.1.1
7) Turn off your modem, router, and Xbox...Wait for a minute...
8) Plug the modem power first, wait for another minute and plug the router power cable, wait another minute and turn on the Xbox and test it...it will connect...

HH5 and Xbox One - randomly open and moderate NAT

Having this annoying problem where the NAT keeps showing as randomly open and moderate. I have set a static I.p for it with no luck so far. I can switch it on and off a dozen times and it can show open, then be turned on the next dozen times and be moderate.
The odd thing is that I have a PS4 and Xbox 360 attached and they both show as always having an open NAT. All devices are connected wired. Tearing my hair out over this. I can't recall the last time I had to mess around with static I.p's a d whatnot. Everything just worked with my old Virginia set up. I do a fair bit of online gaming and so having an open Nat is important to me as even moderate with xbox live can be a real nuisance. Thanks for any help.

Well after googling non stop since around 4am this morning I have found what I think the problem is - and that makes the most sense.
I can't port forward because the HH5 has assigned some of the ports to my Xbox 360 (this was with me only using upnp and NOT having tried any port forwarding) and so now it won't let me manually assign those ports to my Xbox one - hence the error message that I'm getting.
The worst part is, that upnp SHOULD open those ports as needed when I switch my Xbox One on (I live alone and so both machines are never conencted at the same time) but it isn't, because for some reason it is keeping the shared ports solely for the Xbox 360.
So I was trying to manually assign those ports with port forwading to force it to open those same ports on my Xbox One...but so far I haven't got as far as doing any port forwading whatsoever.
I had a router with DD-WRT firmware on my old Virgin connection, and that allowed me to open whatever ports I wanted to whatever device I wanted, but it didn't matter because upnp worked properly on it. Unlike the HH5 which after all my reading has the same problems going back as far as the HH2. The internet is awash with people who couldn't get upnp or port forwading to work how it should.
So far the only people gettng a stable open NAT seem to be those with one Xbox or the other, but NOT both. Which is ridiculous and only seems to affect home hub users.

Ps3 and Xbox 360 already asked many times but no solution works

Hi,
first of all I'd like to share with all of you my real disappoint for having bought this Airport Extreme Base Station. I really hope that someone at Apple will read my post and come to my house because I would have just a few words to tell them.
After 4 years of proficuous cooperation my Netgear WI-Fi router left me and I immediately thought to replace it with an Apple product just to be sure that it would have been easy to install and on top of performances.
I chose the Airport Extreme which is much more expensive than quite all the other same product but I didn't care about it because I would have brang home an excellent product.....or...at least I thought it !
Once in my room the soap opera began. I'm not a genius but I consider myself a medium skilled user and, in any case, even it is not my real job, I configured many bigger LANs than my personal ones and I never had such kidn of problem.
I read many posts where people were asking for information because they couldn't connect their Airport Extreme to their PS3 or Xbox 360 but I never had such kind of problem. It really worked immediately and both consoles worked in few moments.
My REAL problem is that both of them are terribly slow and I can't do anything online. I can't see streming videos, I can't play online and I can't neither play videos that are on a LAN DLNA server !!!!! It takes about 35 seconds to play a video and some times it has to stop for empty buffering reason. This is really unacceptable.
I tried so many configurations and nothing changed and I also took a look at some guides but they had been written with old firmwares so they are quite unuseful for me.
After having asked a friend of mine to give me his router (a Netgear ones) for some days I finally made myself sure that the problem is the Airport Extreme.
It also has a very poor signal because my iPhone has difficulties to keep the connection in areas where my old router worked fully.
If only I could turn back time I'd never buy it again but now, having spent to useless my money, could you please let me know a working configuration for the latest firmware 7.4.2 ? I tried to use the previous firmware but I have the same problems.
There is only a wall separating the Airport Extreme from the PS3 and Xbox and both of them get a 100% of signal but I really don't know what to do.
Thanks for all the help you could provide me.
Bye.
Christian

Sorry but I have no way to measure the actual throughput for any of my devices (I have 2 Xboxes which have the same problem and even my iPhone suffer of a bad connection).
In any case I really can't understand why the connection is so bad. I can even get in touch with my ISP to ask them if there is some problem with the connection (maybe a coincidence and the Airport Extreme has nothing to do with it ?????) but the facts remain: even my DLNA server and PS3 connection is slow and I can't clearly see the movies I have in my intenal LAN and also the iPhone show a poor connection to the Airport Extreme and it is because of the Extreme for sure.
I really don't know what to do.

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I know that I can wirelessly send music to my home sterio (via the speaker jack), but I can't seem to get the xbox to discover the network (via the ethernet cable). Can I even do this?
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WRT160N and web page problems

I have the WRT160N and experience problems with web pages loading. For example, when I use this router there are times when I want to go to Facebook and instead I get some odd MySpace webpage. I've had similar problems when trying to access my local news webpage, it loads some sort of other strange page. This occurs on all computers in my network (3).
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Any Ideas?

The issue I am experiencing has occurred on all three computers in my home. Two desktop computers and one laptap. They are clean from viruses and spyware, I can assure you of that.
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Updated to 7.3.1, PC and Xbox 360 can't connect

Hey, anyone else having problems getting PCs and Xbox 360s to connect to the AirPort Extreme after the 7.3.1 update? Wired or wireless, my PC (Vista, with and without SP1) and my Xbox 360 (with the official wireless network adapter) won't connect.

I am in the same boat...
7.2 worked great... 7.3.1 does not even show in the network list. Also, downgrading it does not fix the issue?!?!?
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WRT160N and WPA-2 Key

Purchased WRT160N and it keeps telling me that my security key is incorrect. Security key is not incorrect. Use the same key on other Linksys routes but this one continues to tell me that the key is invalid. Any suggestions?

Hey try resetting the router reset button in such a way that power
light is blinking on the router & then do a complete network power
cycle i.e., unplug the power cables from the modem & from the router &
then plug in the power cable to the modem first once all the lights are
solid green you could plug in the power cable to the router & check out
it will definately work!!

WRT160N and uPnP failures

While it seems the opinion of most people is that uPnP is the work of the devil, I find it useful... when it works.
Seems though that my router, when it's not randomly deciding to stop routing, will choose to randomly have uPnP fail on me. The port forwarding works, and then it doesn't. If I go and set the port forwarding manually for the very same port, works just fine.
And while I was typing this out, I decided to muck around with the settings some. I tried turning off uPnP and then turning it back on, no joy. Then I discovered the PC I was connecting from was not in the DHCP table. So I did a quick refresh and viola, I'm in the able. A few minutes later, uPnP started working again.
Won't claim to know a ton about uPnP but is it possible that the WRT160N has some relationship between DHCP and uPnP?

I just talked with Linksys support, and they told me
"it's not actually a firmware issue. It's just that our routers are very secured, that's why sometimes we need to manually open the ports so that the router's heavy security would allow those ports to pass through."
HUH?
This can't be the case, and even if it was, why have uPNP if it won't work? Further, if I power cycle the router, restart windows, then uPNP works, ports are open everything is fine. However, at some point down the road (say if I enter the router setup for any reason) uPNP breaks.
I was then told how to enter in a static IP and use port forwarding. The method was incorrect, entering an ip into my LAN in Windows. That doesn't work. I had to find out for myself you need to assign a static IP using the DHCP table in the router's setup.
HOWEVER, my sister's cheap Dlink (half the price of this router) works perfectly with uPNP, is Windows 7 certified, and just works. I think I may sell my WRT160N and get that.
Message Edited by drisley on 10-08-2009 10:42 PM

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