Someone Help!!

So I recently purchased the new Xbox 360 250 GB to find out it reads my NAT type as STRICT. Meaning I can't connect directly to many of my friends. As you can imagine, this is very annoying, and I would very much like to fix the problem. The problem which I have never seemed to have on my Playstation 3. i have already tried:

Disconnecting all internet hardware in various orders.

Enabling UPnP

Disabling my router's firewall

And yet the only thing which seems to work is a direct connection to my modem. This, however is rarely possible due to multiple people using the internet at one time in my house on my connection. Are there any ideas? And please only say PortForwarding if your intelligent enough to explain it to me.

If the router supports uPNP and you have successfully turned it on, that -should- work but sometimes it can be a little touchy. I had to turn off and on my Xbox a few times before it showed as Open. uPNP is specifically designed to make this process effortless so we shouldn't need to get into the forwarding of specific ports, static IP addresses or DMZ.

-Byshop

I could get into port forwarding...but that shouldn't be necessary. It is probably either you ISP or your router (most likely the router since you said a direct connection to the modem works fine). What make/model router do you have? daviwinn

Um... I believe it's a ****** G router?

If the router supports uPNP and you have successfully turned it on, that -should- work but sometimes it can be a little touchy. I had to turn off and on my Xbox a few times before it showed as Open. uPNP is specifically designed to make this process effortless so we shouldn't need to get into the forwarding of specific ports, static IP addresses or DMZ.

-Byshop

Byshop

So wait... I'm supposed to turn it off and back on again?