Stuck in NAT type 3 regardless of correct portforwarding/DMZ on ASUS RT-N56U router, advice please!

jacobarmitage

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Hello everyone.

I feel a bit silly asking this here, i posted in the asus forums only to see most questions go unanswered and thought i'd ask this superb community.

I'm running an asus RT-N56U router with the latest firmware and i cannot for the life of me get my PS4 into NAT type 2 regardless of having assigned it a static IP, and done all the correct port forwarding. After this didn't work i placed my PS4's ip into the routers DMZ and still, NAT type 3.

The only way i've been able to get into NAT type 1/2 is by connecting directly to my DSL modem (resulting in type 1) so i know its not an issue with the modem/isp, but that is not a solution. I know the PS3 had an issue with Ip fragmentation that was eventually patched but i feel we'd hear more people having issues with a strict NAT with the PS4 if that was the case?

Is anyone familiar with the router than could offer some advice? i'm not the best with networking and there may just be some silly setting or a step i've done wrong. I'm a bit at wits end here as i've been fiddling with this for the better part of the week and have had no positive results.

Any advice is greatly appreciated, thank you for your time.
 
Solution
If your router has a built in firewall, be sure access is allowed. Normally, enabling UPnP in your router will fix the NAT type and also help keep you from having to port forward for every game that needs to go online.

jacobarmitage

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Thank you for the reply. I have tried disabling the firewall, turning UPnP on and off, assigning static IP's, rolling back drivers, using customer firmware. Bloody everything at this poiint.