If you are getting the NAT moderate or strict message instead of open here are a couple of things you can try.
Using Internet Explorer type in you router’s IP address. Usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1. I have Cincinnati Bell Fioptics and it is 192.162.200.1. Had to call them to get it.
Some routers have tabs, some have menus but you are looking for the NAT settings. You need to look up your Xbox’s IP address in your network settings on the Xbox. Then in the NAT settings click port forwarding. Some routers have presets for certain games, mine did not have COD or Xbox live. Click custom service, name it. In the server IP address box you type your Xbox’s IP address. In the external port start box you type 3075, in the external port end you type 3075. The rest should auto fill.
If that doesn’t work or it is too complicated click the DMZ tab under NAT and just type your Xbox’s IP address. That is pretty simple. I did both on mine. The draw back is if you do not have a static/assigned IP address for the Xbox then when you reboot the router or reboot the Xbox it could grab a different IP address and you have to do the steps above again. And if your computer grabs the DMZ address you have no router firewall. That could be bad.
To fix that find the LAN tab and click add entries. Look up the MAC address in the Xbox’s network settings. Enter the MAC address and the desired IP address you want for the Xbox. You can make it the current IP address if you want. I made mine the first one available on the network so it would be in front of the other 10 things we have with network access. You will have to restart the Xbox after that and maybe the router.
Don’t change anything else in there or you will end up calling customer service, that is no fun.
On the Gateway routers that the service providers use you have to port forward or DMZ the Xbox or it is moderate at best on COD. We have Fiotics for Tv and internet and it crapped out this afternoon and they installed a new one and I was moderate until I changed the settings. I asked the service guy what the IP was to make sure I could change it and he said not the change anything and I said I am a gamer and I have to. Took me 5 minutes to get it open again.
Disney I have always shown open and even when using the settings in Xbox it shows open but COD would show moderate. Once I opened port 3075 COD now shows open as well.
My NAT is finally open on BO3. It has been strict in-game but open on XBL settings. I fiddled with changing the power settings to “energy saving” and it finally is open. Hopefully no more getting dropped out of lobbies goin forward.
So after the patch last night COD shows me as moderate again while Xbox shows me as open. Not sure what the patch did to change the additional port I had opened.
Do you have all the standard ports forwarded? If so, you may have to do a hard reboot. Unplug the power and fire it back up. I’ve had issues like that and the reboot resolved it.