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So when your entire neighborhood is NAT'd and you want to use XBox Live you'll, what, call up your ISP and ask nicely to have the right ports forwarded to you?
by msbarnett 16y ago
So when your entire neighborhood is NAT'd and you want to use XBox Live you'll, what, call up your ISP and ask nicely to have the right ports forwarded to you?
NAT works in an office environment because most offices aren't doing anything more than web and email. Home usage scenarios are significantly broader and harder to keep working behind carrier grade NAT.
- Devilboy 16y agoYou still need to do that with XBox? Does that mean you can't run more than one XBox at home from one IP address?
- regularfry 16y agoPresumably (I haven't got one) the XBoxes can use UPnP to negotiate external ports with the home router, which, unlike the ISP's router, can trust the devices on its network.