Comments on: BT Home Hub - XBox 360 Live - Strict NAT Issues: UPDATE

By: Ollie R

Ollie R — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:09:36 +0000

Okay, so i am getting my xbox live’s connection through an ethernet cable connected to my mac which gets it’s wireless from a BT homehub and i have tried thousands of things to get the NAT setting to change from strict and nothing seems to work. Can someone please give me a definitive answer because i would really appreciate it

By: JZ

JZ — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:51:45 +0000

worked for me! stopped my fella from moaning too, bonus!

By: damien

damien — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:14:26 +0000

I have found this problem everywhere for BT home hub users, but after a little tinkering with my hub for a day I found the solution. Can someone else test it for me to see if it truly works.

1) open up your home hub web front end i.e http://api.home or the ip address.
2) once in go into the “advanced” option on the left hand menu.
3) type in your username and password.
4) then goto “devices” in here you should see your xbox 360, either by its ip address or by name.
5) click the “edit” option next to the device.
6) now on this screen you can add “rules” to your devices, in the drop down list scroll down until you find “xbox live” then click “add”
7) once added wait about 30 seconds then reboot your router
once rebooted restest your xbox 360 network adapter settings and you should now see it as open.

done this on mine and it worked first time. it now shows as open and it works like a charm and no need for using the DMZ and no need for setting up all those nasty port forwarding rules.

If someone could test that would be great.

hope this helps

By: jon

jon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:53:25 +0000

thanks for the info…its quite helpful but… I’m probably getting the same problem as other people (I’m a noob when it comes down to networking) but i connect my xbox to my home hub and play through it and it still dosen’t let me change the NAT settings please can someone give any tips I’m relay starting to get pissed off with it >=(

By: matt

matt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:05:41 +0000

all i did was reset factory settings on the home hub from the internet page (IP address) and its sorted it

By: adam

adam — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:01:25 +0000

how do i fix the stricked Nat in simple terms explaining each step plz help my gamer tag is xUBxLee33 plz help it is really startin to anoy me

By: alex

alex — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:38:01 +0000

how come my mates home hub has open and mine is stricked

By: Madara Uchiha

Madara Uchiha — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:40:05 +0000

dude help when i go in test connection to xbox live NAT say STRICK how i fix it what i do?? help me plz!

By: Gary Shaw

Gary Shaw — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:00:37 +0000

Hope David doesn’t mind me posting this, but for future reference the instructions on here aren’t really required anymore on the latest firmware updates, neither is a reset of the router to “temp fix” the problem.

I go into what is needed on my site here:-

http://www.xboxlivetheguide.co.uk/XBoxLiveTheGuide3.php?title=BT%20HomeHub%20Strict%20NAT

Hope that Helps

XboxLiveTheGuide Admin

By: Max

Max — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:48:39 +0000

It’s impossible to do it. You need to phone BT, get them to acess your computer, log on as an amdministartor, and then they will automaticly make it work. However, you need an ethernet cable plugged from your homehub to your xbox for this to work.