PS4 online gaming with Rain LTE-A

[mattrudlles]

I wanted to confirm that I managed to get an "open" NAT in COD: WW2 using Rain LTE-A with a Huawei B618 router. I managed to do so by manually assigning a static IP address outside of the DHCP range and then placing that IP address in the DMZ zone on the B618 router.

 

[agentrfr]

The use of a DMZ, even outside of DHCP range is very dangerous. Since the target of the DMZ still wants to be able to play the game, it has to be on the same subnet - which sort of defeats the purpose of you assigning it out of the DHCP to a static adress in the first place

Brah, just manually forward the necessary ports. Don't DMZ. For goodness sake cod is p2p anyway, and everyone on either network from any peer knows the IP of everyone else. You just need to be playing against someone on a Wi-Fi network that happens to have a do-nogooder listening in

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Don't think the B618 has port forwarding.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Enable UPnP on your router and let DHCP assign an IP to your PS4...

 

[mattrudlles]

The use of a DMZ, even outside of DHCP range is very dangerous. Since the target of the DMZ still wants to be able to play the game, it has to be on the same subnet - which sort of defeats the purpose of you assigning it out of the DHCP to a static adress in the first place

Brah, just manually forward the necessary ports. Don't DMZ. For goodness sake cod is p2p anyway, and everyone on either network from any peer knows the IP of everyone else. You just need to be playing against someone on a Wi-Fi network that happens to have a do-nogooder listening in

Thank you for the warning agentrfr - appreciated.

 

[mattrudlles]

Don't think the B618 has port forwarding.

It has options for a virtual server - I did input the required ports here as the description sounded much like port forwarding. However, enabling or disabling the virtual server made no difference to my NAT type. Further, when I disabled the DMZ the NAT went back to "moderate" :|. I will post later to confirm.

 

[mattrudlles]

Enable UPnP on your router and let DHCP assign an IP to your PS4...

Do you get an open NAT when doing this Mike? I will give it a try nonetheless.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Do you get an open NAT when doing this Mike? I will give it a try nonetheless.

Yip.

Don't mess with the DMZ unless you know what you're doing...