[hammerbenj]

whats this all about?

mine is strict but apparantly not many are, does this effect me in any way?

and can i change it?

thamks in advance.

[NightHawk]

Mine is moderate. I too would like to know what that means

[Robothamster]

Mine is OPEN.

When you do a connection type test on your PS3 under settings, what does your NAT type report to be?

Mine is NAT type 2 (recommended) and my PS3 is in a DMZ on my router.

[daddyduche]

It's all to do with port forwarding whatever that is.

[Mickus]

Or UPNP.

[musti]

Mine is 'Open' and my PS3 is on my DMZ...

[Ben-H]

Originally Posted by Robothamster

Mine is OPEN.

NAT type 2 (recommended) and my PS3 is in a DMZ on my router.

Yeah mines the same...Its all to do with what ports you have open on your router...If you want to open ports for the game/PSN try here - PortForward.com - ReplaceTitle

And if you want to put your PS3 into DMZ then look here - GUIDE: PUT YOUR PS3 IN A DMZ

[ps3boy]

NATS type as COD refers to it. I looked this up and there is some sliding rule whereby strict means you can only connect up with other players of (if I remember right) the same type, Medium meant you could connect to other medium types and strict, open connect with all.

it was something like that, since I moved my PS3 in to my DMZ ive got 'open' all the time (see my other post in the laggers guid thread)

[emcor99]

Originally Posted by Ben-H

Yeah mines the same...Its all to do with what ports you have open on your router...If you want to open ports for the game/PSN try here - PortForward.com - ReplaceTitle

And if you want to put your PS3 into DMZ then look here - GUIDE: PUT YOUR PS3 IN A DMZ

My PS3 thats hardwired is moderate, my wireless ps3 thats upstairs is open. They are both on the same router???

I dont understand it

[Jac4593]

Originally Posted by Robothamster

Mine is OPEN.

When you do a connection type test on your PS3 under settings, what does your NAT type report to be?

Mine is NAT type 2 (recommended) and my PS3 is in a DMZ on my router.

Yeah, Hi5

[Ben-H]

Originally Posted by emcor99

My PS3 thats hardwired is moderate, my wireless ps3 thats upstairs is open. They are both on the same router???

I dont understand it

Has one been placed in DMZ mode and the other hasn't? Half of the work to put your PS3 in DMZ mode is done on the PS3 aswell as the router!

[Robothamster]

Originally Posted by emcor99

My PS3 thats hardwired is moderate, my wireless ps3 thats upstairs is open. They are both on the same router???

That's an odd one.

If I were you I'd write down the settings on the wireless one and see if all of them match the wired one (not the bits to do with wired/wireless obviously).

Maybe one have UPnP on and the other off or some other difference?

Although Bens advice also sounds like a plan!

[emcor99]

Originally Posted by Ben-H

Has one been placed in DMZ mode and the other hasn't? Half of the work to put your PS3 in DMZ mode is done on the PS3 aswell as the router!

No mate, neither have been put in to DMZ

Originally Posted by Robothamster

That's an odd one.

If I were you I'd write down the settings on the wireless one and see if all of them match the wired one (not the bits to do with wired/wireless obviously).

Maybe one have UPnP on and the other off or some other difference?

Although Bens advice also sounds like a plan!

Thanks for the advice i will have a look when i get home.

[ps3boy]

i'm finding it hard to get a definitive answer on how to configure these things but my experience is that my wifi connected PS3 went from open to strict over a number of COD updates/releases/patches. since I put the IP address (multiple PS3's on the same network would have different IP addresses) in to the DMZ on the router it has stayed 'open' and online performance has been better (dare I say near full green).

Bit of trial and error I'm afraid (I have a netgear router by the way)

[Fmrl]

Mine is "open" - I'm guessing MW2 tries different port combinations to connect to the Matchmaker/IWNET when you start MP and makes a decision based on that. In theory it shouldn't make any difference to how the game works.

[goldwater666]

Mine is "open"...PS3 is in a DMZ and upnp is disabled on PS3

Don't seem to have any probs connecting to others or they connecting to me

[Spacedeck]

I never changed or port forwarded anything. My PS3 isn't in DMZ but mine always says OPEN so I'm happy.

[Workshed]

Originally Posted by ps3boy

NATS type as COD refers to it. I looked this up and there is some sliding rule whereby strict means you can only connect up with other players of (if I remember right) the same type, Medium meant you could connect to other medium types and strict, open connect with all.

Sorry mate but that's just not true, i've played MW2 with mates on different NAT types no probs

For what it's worth mine is on Moderate and I have two routers in place (one of which is doing traffic shaping/QoS to prioritise my gaming packets).

[Fen Star]

Originally Posted by Robothamster

Mine is OPEN.

Originally Posted by NightHawk

Mine is moderate.

Just to make things more complicated i have noticed that sometimes mine says Open and other times it says Moderate...

[MarkusThatch]

When the psn error message came up in the summer (I think?) I vaguely remember looking up the ps3 internet connection settings on here and saw the following:
address settings on manual
primary dns ending in 222 and the secondary dns ending in 220
mtu automatic
proxy server do not use
UPnP disabled
nat type was set to type 2

After using those settings I didn't seem to have any problems, until the lag-fest special ops but v1.04 seems to have put paid to that. I have noticed that on zombies when one particular friend "hosts" his mate can't hear me. Unless it's selective hearing

[Robothamster]

Originally Posted by Fen Star

Just to make things more complicated i have noticed that sometimes mine says Open and other times it says Moderate...

Hmmmmm, quite a conundrum you have presented there...

[jonnyc]

Mines Nat type 2 on the ps3. then open Nat in game with my I.S.P,s servers and i get dropouts(i think thats the I.S.P,s fault not the games) i get moderate Nat type when using opendns servers. I have upnp disabled on the ps3 and no ports forwarded and no DMZ setup on the router.

[ps3boy]

this is what I found on another forum (credit to the guy who wrote it but I couldnt find his name) -

" Now let me explain. There r 3 types of Nats. STRICT which can only connect to people with open NATs, MODERATE which can only connect to people with moderate or open and OPEN nats which can connect to all 3 Now obviously open Nats r the best and ill assume you will want 1 "

[Workshed]

Originally Posted by ps3boy

this is what I found on another forum (credit to the guy who wrote it but I couldnt find his name) -

" Now let me explain. There r 3 types of Nats. STRICT which can only connect to people with open NATs, MODERATE which can only connect to people with moderate or open and OPEN nats which can connect to all 3 Now obviously open Nats r the best and ill assume you will want 1 "

That doesn't mean they're right

[jonnyc]

Originally Posted by Workshed

That doesn't mean they're right

sounds a bout right though to be fair, id like a link to where its from though plz

[Supernovasaint]

Originally Posted by jonnyc

sounds a bout right though to be fair, id like a link to where its from though plz

This page from Microsoft explains it, this relates to the 360 but I imagine it's the same for the PS3.

Description of NAT and how it impacts your online experience

[Robothamster]

Originally Posted by Supernovasaint

This page from Microsoft explains it, this relates to the 360 but I imagine it's the same for the PS3.

Description of NAT and how it impacts your online experience

Or for lazy people that can't be bother to click & search:

<H3 id=tocHeadRef>Three types of NAT issues that can occur

Open: This means that you router has optimal settings, and you should not run into any of the issues described in this article.

Moderate: This means that you can talk to other players who have open or moderate NAT issues, but you cannot talk or play with users who have strict NAT issues.

Strict: This means that you can talk only to other players, but you cannot talk to players who have moderate or strict NAT issues.

</H3>

[adskin80]

Originally Posted by emcor99

My PS3 thats hardwired is moderate, my wireless ps3 thats upstairs is open. They are both on the same router???

I dont understand it

Mine too Mr emcor!

[hammerbenj]

i keep getting signed out of psn when playing this game, does anyone know if the two are connected?

[CFH]

Mine is open and not DMZ'd through a BT Home Hub.

Always connects to other and never have any lag