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trvrhalliday's avatar
trvrhalliday
Tuning in
11 months ago

Restricted NAT Type

This is being a continual, burden to my online social community as its incredible difficult to get into xbox party chat, and phone calls to virgin Media seem to be getting nowhere fast. 

This needs sorting, and has been an ongoing issue for about two months now since there was a breakage on our local hub. 

10 Replies

  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta

    These problems can be fixed by a better router with 1Gb ports and hub in modem mode

  • Hi trvrhalliday 

    Welcome back to the community forums 

    Sorry to hear you're having issues with accessing some features on the Xbox. 

    Is it only the Xbox that you're having these types of concerns? We wouldn't be able to support any customisations you make to our router or any 3rd party device issues, However the community members maybe able to assist further with any recommendations or set ups that might work for what you're looking for, 

    • unisoft's avatar
      unisoft
      Knows their stuff

      Carley_S wrote:

      Hi trvrhalliday 

      Welcome back to the community forums 

      Sorry to hear you're having issues with accessing some features on the Xbox. 

      Is it only the Xbox that you're having these types of concerns? We wouldn't be able to support any customisations you make to our router or any 3rd party device issues, However the community members maybe able to assist further with any recommendations or set ups that might work for what you're looking for, 


      Is the poster saying port forwarding does not work on his firmware of VM Hub then? Or are they implying VM's routing is not working since his reported "breakage on local hub"? VM know about routing issues as Cloudflare hosted sites and Google/AWS/Azure been broken in some or all areas.

      uPnP and Open Nat are security issues waiting to happen, but Xbox works with port forwarding rather then leaving open or relying on uPnP, and from the poster's description he isn't suffering from Double NAT.

    • legacy1's avatar
      legacy1
      Alessandro Volta

      Carley_S wrote:

      We wouldn't be able to support any customisations you make to our router...


      Might as well remove DMZ and port forwarding and hell remove modem mode see how long VM last

       

  • As an update, this issue is persisting and I'm aware that there is a growing community of xbox users with this issue, many of which have... Wait for it... VM Internet access...

  • Sidebar: Discord on xbox 'works', without any connectivity issues. That just seems to have issues with stability, compared to xbox Party Chat. 

    • Nathan_B's avatar
      Nathan_B
      Icon for Forum Team rankForum Team

      Thanks for coming back trvrhalliday 😊 Sorry to see you've not had any resolution to this. Just to confirm, have you been able to set the NAT type to open to see if this helps?

      Let us know.

      Regards

      Nathan

  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta

    Are you getting anywhere with this? do you not think VM can solve this?