First of all the 3 dumb router segment was great and exactly what I have been looking for

[G+_Geoff Galley]

First of all the 3 dumb router segment was great and exactly what I have been looking for. My question is about opening up ports for game consoles. I did have a 2 router setup and always had trouble setting the game console ports. I have looked on and YouTube, followed many tutorials with no success. Could you do a quick question and answer show with opening up ports for devices using a 2 router setup especially on the trusted side.

[G+_Rickbearcat]

I second this motion. I am a PC gamer and a console gamer. I'd like to know how to connect both (PC and console) to the internet for playing multiplayer games in the safest and fastest way possible while getting the lowest ping to my nearest data center. Nowadays, some PC's even have dual wireless options in addition to gigabit ethernet. Would love to see a show covering all aspects of this.

[G+_Gene Hill]

Geoff, I don't have any video's but I was able to get this configured in my house recently. I installed the 3 dumb router configuration, and needed to push ports from the internet through the first router, past the second one and into my gaming device. I did the following setup to make it work.

On the exterior most router I opened ports and directed them to the IP address of the ROUTER(not the gaming device) that my gaming device was connected to. Then on that second interior router I configured the same ports to direct to my gaming device. This made those ports internet facing, through a two router system.

 

I hope this helps.

[G+_Ben Reese]

I wasn't going for the 3DR setup, but I've got a double-NAT setup currently with a few services running behind the second router.

 

Router-A WAN is connected directly to the Internet.

Router-B WAN is connected to LAN on A.

B had a static WAN IP on the subnet of A (like 192.168.0.2)

A forwards all the needed ports forwarded to B (192.168.0.2)

B forwards all the needed ports to the end machines

 

Sorry... It's confusing. As for the Xbox, most I've seen recommend upnp and I'm not sure that works on double-NAT.

[G+_Gene Hill]

UPNP will not open the needed ports on the external router(Router A in your example), it will only allow changes to Router B. But if you are able to use UPNP to view what ports need to be opened, you can manually go to Router A and open those ports and point them to Router B).

[G+_Geoff Galley]

Thanks guys, I have tried several times to open the ports from router A to router B and then from B to the gaming device only to see the the NAT was still restricted, but I think the main problem was both routers were running in the same IP range. Router A was 10.0.0.1 and Router B was 10.0.0.253. people have told me that the internet should have been intermittent, but it wasn't. I'm going to try it again but this time the routers won't be the same IP range. I'll let you know how I go.

[G+_Hagos Rush]

Geoff Galley Once you switch the Router B to its own range you will have no issues. You have to create a never ending snake especially if you want to run your network the way you are currently.

 

I will also say that I ran into the same issue that you were having (restrictions) but with an older router. I actually locked down my current service with no IP forwarding for the xbox one and it works perfectly fine. The only ports forwarded on my router are for my plex server. nothing else.