My friend and I got Black Ops 2 for our PCs a few days ago, and he has been having issues with his NAT type.
I did some research, and because my NAT type was Strict and his was Moderate, we could not connect to each other directly, as in a party.
I followed a quick guide which involved:
Opening UPnP Ports (manually in this case)
Adding a service in the router's properties that Black Ops 2 uses
and got my NAT type to open (which is the best for BO2) within a few minutes.
So, naturally, I yell at my friend that I got it to work and he joins my party.
Hooray!
We go to join a match, and as usual, he kept disconnecting. His NAT type was still moderate, so I figured it would be best for it to be open.
He successfully opens the ports for UPnP with my instruction; all goes well.
I tell him to click the start button and type 'Network' to open the list of pieces of his network, which should include his router.
It doesn't. The 'Network Infrastructure' tab that I see is missing, and he only sees the 'Computer' and 'Media Devices' tabs.
Something to note, I have a wired connection and he is wireless. He has a Linksys router. I can't seem to find if a wireless connection would prevent him from seeing his router in this window.
The questions for the wonderful people of this forum to answer:
a) Is he unable to see his router for any simplistic reason, such as a wireless or poor connection?
b) Is this the only way to see the properties of his router? (He CAN see it in the Network and Sharing center between his computer and the internet in the diagram.)
c) If he can't edit his router's properties from his computer, what other things could we try to get his NAT type to open?
d) Does his NAT type need to be open? I have read that people with Moderate NAT types have bad times because the majority of people have either Open NAT types (which they can connect to) or Strict NAT types (which they cannot connect to).
I did some research, and because my NAT type was Strict and his was Moderate, we could not connect to each other directly, as in a party.
I followed a quick guide which involved:
Opening UPnP Ports (manually in this case)
Adding a service in the router's properties that Black Ops 2 uses
and got my NAT type to open (which is the best for BO2) within a few minutes.
So, naturally, I yell at my friend that I got it to work and he joins my party.
Hooray!
We go to join a match, and as usual, he kept disconnecting. His NAT type was still moderate, so I figured it would be best for it to be open.
He successfully opens the ports for UPnP with my instruction; all goes well.
I tell him to click the start button and type 'Network' to open the list of pieces of his network, which should include his router.
It doesn't. The 'Network Infrastructure' tab that I see is missing, and he only sees the 'Computer' and 'Media Devices' tabs.
Something to note, I have a wired connection and he is wireless. He has a Linksys router. I can't seem to find if a wireless connection would prevent him from seeing his router in this window.
The questions for the wonderful people of this forum to answer:
a) Is he unable to see his router for any simplistic reason, such as a wireless or poor connection?
b) Is this the only way to see the properties of his router? (He CAN see it in the Network and Sharing center between his computer and the internet in the diagram.)
c) If he can't edit his router's properties from his computer, what other things could we try to get his NAT type to open?
d) Does his NAT type need to be open? I have read that people with Moderate NAT types have bad times because the majority of people have either Open NAT types (which they can connect to) or Strict NAT types (which they cannot connect to).