[matty-uk]

Hi all,

I'm getting extremely frustrated here but can't seem to figure out a solution. My G4 iBook is sharing it's internet connection for my 360. I can connect to live but can't join any of my friend's games on COD4. When I run the network test I get NAT as strict. I've opened the ports on my router, added the ports in the firewall on the iBook but it still says strict

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[ghporter]

Suggestions? Sure. Do something different to get your 360 onto your network. I believe the "NAT = strict" is coming, not from your router but from your iBook. You're running into the old and unpleasant "double-NAT" problem, where you have two different devices performing Network Address Translation, and XBox Live doesn't work well (if at all) with that.

For a long time, we had my son's 360 connected (straight to the router) via a very long Ethernet cable until he finally coughed up the money for a Microsoft wireless adapter for the 360. Why are you using the iBook to handle this connection?

[matty-uk]

I'm doing it this way because the xbox is around 20 meters from the router. I can't really get an ethernet cable to it so to save the cables I thought I might as well just share the iBook connection.

I'll have a look into what I can use to get it online without using the iBook but the wireless adapters specifically for the xbox are rather expensive I'll see about a wireless access point.