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Porsche-poor · 01-07-2010, 06:13 AM

Anyone know how to open up the UDP port 88 & 3074 as well as the TCP port 3074 on a Linksys WRT54G.

My son has a new game for the Xbox360 and it will not run while he is online. They say I need to open up these ports. Read what I could in the manual before my eyes crossed and glazed over................

Thanks for the help.

cgarr · cgarr's Garage

Is this what your looking for? Log into the router and add the settings under applications and gaming:

Porsche-poor · 01-07-2010, 06:52 AM

Stupid follow up question. The last line 192.168.1.250 where does the "250" come from? is that the IP of the xbox?

Oh and thanks a lot my son now owes you one!!!!

cgarr · cgarr's Garage

That last number should be the address of the Xbox. If your Xbox is setup to get it’s address dynamically, you may need to change it to a manual address and then put that address in the router.

Porsche-poor · 01-07-2010, 07:33 AM

Not sure how the xbox is set up will have to look into that one tonight. It might turn out to be just the game. I found a thread on the EA site and I am not alone in this quest to make the game work.

masraum · 01-07-2010, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by cgarr

That last number should be the address of the Xbox. If your Xbox is setup to get it’s address dynamically, you may need to change it to a manual address and then put that address in the router.

Or, you could setup a reservation so the xbox/game always gets the same address without having to make the address static/hardcoded.

Porsche-poor · 01-07-2010, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by masraum

Or, you could setup a reservation so the xbox/game always gets the same address without having to make the address static/hardcoded.

now your talking Greek to a non-geek. Can you explain without taking much of your time.

Thanks

masraum · 01-07-2010, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

now your talking Greek to a non-geek. Can you explain without taking much of your time.

Thanks

Actually, nevermind. I have a wr54tg now. I thought it supported reservations, but it doesn't. It must have been my previous wireless router that would allow reservations.

Porsche-poor · 01-07-2010, 05:51 PM

Thanks for the help guys but no joy. Its either blocked at the DSL modem or at the AT&T end. The game just won't connect. I will try to get at the DSL modem this weekend. I hate doing that cause its touchy and the wife depends on it for her work.

Thanks again.