Changing Eircom Netopia NAT type

Victor_M

Just an FYI, for those with Eircom netopia routers.
I'm sure this has been covered before, but of all the port triggering/forwarding walk through's this one is the simplest I've come across and I'm now NAT type 1, which shows up as NAT Type = open in the CODMW2 lobby (i presume it affects all online gaming not just COD), gets my stats much faster, into games much quicker and there seems to be less lag.

They matchmaking is crap on MW2 with NAT3, massive waiting time to find a 100ms game, lots of lag and rarely does the host migration work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JugGe7CCuNU

twinsen

Yeah, it just doesnt work.

Victor_M

It does I followed it yesterday and it worked first time.
I selected wired instead of wireless, that was the only difference. Did you change the MTU to 1500? Also did you turn off Media sharing (for some reason a few of the talk through's make you turn it off), I did, and put it on again afterwards and its working fine.

tok9

i've tried this also and i can't get it working.. it always fails to find a ip address

Stuxnet

it used to work for me ages ago, but then stopped, could never get it back, tried every trick in the book,
problem solved when i ditched that bastard excuse for a router the netopia
aye covered in a million threads here, at least 2 a week !!!
should be a rule stopping it tbf !!

twinsen

Victor_M wrote: »

It does I followed it yesterday and it worked first time.
I selected wired instead of wireless, that was the only difference. Did you change the MTU to 1500? Also did you turn off Media sharing (for some reason a few of the talk through's make you turn it off), I did, and put it on again afterwards and its working fine.

I did all of that, many times, i just cant get this working properly. It is so annoying. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes to connect to the game. I know I could buy a new router, but i just cant understand why it works for some people and doesnt for other.
there is even special option to open ports for PSN in my router but that still doesnt change nat type.

Keano

twinsen wrote: »

I did all of that, many times, i just cant get this working properly. It is so annoying. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes to connect to the game. I know I could buy a new router, but i just cant understand why it works for some people and doesnt for other.
there is even special option to open ports for PSN in my router but that still doesnt change nat type.

So do you have no connection to internet at all?

tok9

Whats the best and cheapest router you can buy that will solve the NAT problem?

mailrewop

i got it to nat 1 on a wired connection a few weeks ago using that youtube video

twinsen

Keano A Legend wrote: »

So do you have no connection to internet at all?

I have connection , but it si still nat3 .

Komplett: Marc

mailrewop wrote: »

i got it to nat 1 on a wired connection a few weeks ago using that youtube video

Me too

baz909

this worked for me ... bloody Eircom and that fecking Netopia router !

Sheepy99

its easy to do anyway.

twinsen

Should the router be setup to work in bridge mode?

platini

I done it today with a netopia router and it worked first time, I have no clue about computers so just followed the instructions in the vid and got nat type 1 with nat type open in mw2 lobby.

Stuxnet

platini wrote: »

I done it today with a netopia router and it worked first time, I have no clue about computers so just followed the instructions in the vid and got nat type 1 with nat type open in mw2 lobby.

ya it'll work for a while, then stop, ask everyone here, it'll drive you insane to get it back, but it wont
and you'll buy a new router, like the hundreds here !

Kenno90

BOBBY wrote: »

ya it'll work for a while, then stop, ask everyone here, it'll drive you insane to get it back, but it wont
and you'll buy a new router, like the hundreds here !

Ouch sorry to hear that , i used that video years ago and never had a problem since changing to NAT type 1 .

Nick_oliveri

Any thoughts on the new Zyxel router?
Edit: seems to work with GTA

nedd

I have the new zyxel router and when i set up a regular connection it comes in as type 2.

I cant get the PPPOE working on the new router at all.

AlanC275

To get Nat Type 1 on eircom netopia go to network settings,
go custom settings click everything normally till you get to PPPOE
Click into that then set username as eircom@eircom.net and password as broudband1............finish as normal and test connection it works! None of that port forwarding.

AlanC275

twinsen wrote: »

Yeah, it just doesnt work.

To get Nat Type 1 on eircom netopia go to network settings,
go custom settings click everything normally till you get to PPPOE
Click into that then set username as eircom@eircom.net and password as broudband1............finish as normal and test connection it works! None of that port forwarding.

waclander

i tried this wirelessly a couple of weeks ago it worked fine but in the last week my ps3 wont even find a wireless connection it just keeps saying error 8001000a has anyone else had this problem.

Burkey1992

Thank you so f*****g much! I have been trying to fix my nat type from strict to open on xbox for the last two months. Great video thanks .