I'm trying to play on Xbox Live but I've been having to reset my router everyday to create an open Nat. I've talked with customer support for Verizon and Actiontec. Verizon set me a new router, which solved nothing, but aside from this I've not been able to reach someone who could understand port forwarding or why I would want to do it.
My issue is that I would like to forward the necessary ports once, keep them forwarded, and not have to reset (sometimes to factory specs) every day. To be clear, I've set up the forwarding but it is as if the router does not recognize the parameters until it is reset. Sometimes my nat will change during the middle of gameplay as well. This has been very frustrating so any help you can offer would be great because I'm not getting it from the phone techs.
Specs:
Actiontec MI424WR rev. l. firmware:40.19.36
Xbox 360 wired to router
Fios 75/35
Ports Forwarded 3074 both, 53 both, 80 TCP, 88 UDP (yes they are set up correctly)
Static IP set (yes it is set up correctly)
Additionally, Xbox Live's website notes a bug in the MI424WR that causes nat switching. The solution is to go into the upnp settings, however, access to upnp is not available in rev. l's firmware.
http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_support/networking-hardware/01-modems-gateways/actiontec/f/3138/t/443214.aspx
