Xbox – How to get two Xbox 360’s to be in “open nat” mode behind the same router

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I have two Xbox 360's, one WiFi and the other wired through the same Linksys E3000 router with DD-WRT (v24-sp2 (04/13/11) std-usb-nas firmware).

Mine (the wired one, though hers has been wired in the past and it didn't appear to help) always seems to be open (green), and hers is either moderate or closed (oj/red)

Even with the original router firmware I've never been able to get both consoles into "open nat" mode, and it makes playing certain games together almost impossible for me and my wife because we can't seem to get into the same game.

I have uPnP enabled and the DMZ disabled, and some minor port forwarding to allow for a Minecraft server (Ports 25565 and 25566 for a testing copy of the server), but other than that the settings are mainly at their default, on the xbox's and the router.

Are there any settings I can configure to allow this to work properly?

Best Answer

To avoid some confusion for future readers, this is what at least got me to two "moderate" NAT's on the 360's, which is good enough to find games together:

  1. Use DHCP on both 360's
  2. Specify hostnames for both 360's (in the advanced tab in network settings)
  3. In DD-WRT, assign reserved/static IPs for the MAC+hostname of those 360's outside of your DHCP range

Occasionally somehow we end up with red NAT again, and I turn off both 360's, clear the uPnP table in DD-wrt, and turn on the one who had red NAT first, then turn the other one on 20 seconds later...

It's not a permanent fix, but it seems to work decently.

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