How to Get an Open NAT on Advanced Warfare

Here's a quick guide to show you how to get an Open NAT in Advanced Warfare

Quick Introduction

Here's a quick introduction to what we'll be doing here. Now, this shouldn't take more than 10-20 minutes to do, and it's completely worth it. We'll be setting your NAT to "Open" by enabling the ports that Advanced Warfare requires for it's multiplayer connectivity. Why would this help? Well, an Open NAT means that you have the ability to join any game (so long as it fits your ping range), and not other people of the same NAT type (for example, STRICT on STRICT NAT types). Opening Ports allows the connection to Advanced Warfare to be open, so you'll have a lot less lag most of the time, and you won't be dropping from too many games!

*If you find this guide difficult to understand, I did a step-by-step tutorial video for you to follow along to at the end of this guide!*

So, let's get right into it.

What You'll Need

If you don't already have the things listed below, I'll be going through all of it so you'll get it all!
In order to get an Open NAT, you will need the following things:

• Your internal IP Address
  
  
• Knowledge of where the Port Forwarding page is
  
  
• The Ports you need to Forward

Getting What You'll Need

So, first, we need to get your internal IP. This is probably the easiest step in the whole process. All you have to do, is click the Start Menu Button (on WIndows 7) or open your right charm bar and click search (for Windows 8), and type in cmd. You should see "Command Prompt" or "cmd" pop up in your list of options. Click either one.



Now that we have Command Prompt open, we can type in ipconfig, and hit enter. You'll see a bunch of different numbers pop up, but the one we're looking for is our "Default Gateway". By default for 90% of everyone I know, their Default Gateway IP is 192.168.0.1, while for others it is 10.0.0.1. You'll also want to write down your IPv4 Address, as that is the IP your ports will be forwarded to. Most modems let you just select from a list though!






We also need the ports we're going to forward in the process. The ports are listed next to the protocol that needs to be selected with them.

(Just to clarify, all of these ports, excluding 3074, are Steam ports that do indeed help.)

• 27014-27050 | TCP
  
  
• 3478-3478 | UDP
  
  
• 3074-3074 | UDP
  
  
• 4379-4380 | UDP
  
  
• 27000-27031 | UDP
  
  
• 27036-27036 | UDP

Now, we're ready forward!

Forwarding Your Ports

Now that we have our Default Gateway IP, we need to open our browser (I'm personally using Chrome, but it really doesn't matter which one you use). We need to type our Default Gateway IP into the address bar, and hit enter.




You should be at your modem's page now. It may ask you for a password, username, username and password, or just nothing at all. If it does ask you for a password/username, it will be on a sticker on the back or top of your physical modem. By default, usernames are just "admin"!

Now, we need to find the port forwarding page. It's usually under a tab that says "Advanced", or "Security". If it isn't, you can either look through the page 'till you find it, or you can look at the guide your modem came with, or just by looking up your modem on Google.

First, we're going to click "Port Forwarding" to begin. If it asks for the IP address of what you're trying to port forward, type in your IPv4 address! If it asks you to select the device that you want to forward, select your computer's name from the list.

Now, we need to start typing in our ports. I typed the ports in order from STARTING-ENDING in the section above! Your port info should look like this for each port:


If there is an option for "LAN Port:", you just type the Starting Port in the LAN Port as well.




Now, after you do each port, hit "Apply" or "Save" to make sure it forwards each port! Some modems let you type them all at once though.

Verifying Your Settings

Now, we need to make sure your NAT is Enabled (which it is, but some modems like to turn NAT off after forwarding). You can do this by going under "Advanced" or "Security" and clicking "NAT". It should let you choose your NAT State. If it is off, Enable it and hit "Apply".





Then, still under "Advanced" or "Security", click UPnP, and make sure that it's also enabled. If both your NAT, UPnP are enabled, and all your ports are forwarded, you can restart your modem after saving your changes if it asked you to. If it didn't then give it a few minutes and restart Steam and Advanced Warfare to make sure it applies everything! If this didn't open your NAT, just let me know, and I'll do my best to help you!

See you on the other end of the barrel.

[Cy.-]

@Sgt. Titmilk Yeh.. i tried it .. but it didn't work for MW2.. and i made me go to Moderate on Rainbow six Siege from Open.. But Thanks anyways :)

[Sir William Plumpton]

@ModellDoge Yes, it also has most of the porrts CSGO uses, along with a ton of other games

[Cy.-]

@Smooth tK Ok. Thanks.. But does this also work for other Call of Duty games?

[Sir William Plumpton]

@ModellDoge yes, it's the same

[Cy.-]

@Smooth tK Hello.. The closest i have to Port Forwarding is.. "Port Range Forwarding" But is it the same??