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Yeah, that's showing up in myip. Thanks very much - going to see if that solves the NAT issues - fingers crossed.

Cheers @Netduma Fraser, Netgear actually sent out a new router as I raised a support request and the new one seems to be fine. Set up IPv6 today and my xbox is showing as IPv4 & IPv6 with addresses for both which seems to mean its enabled according to the xbox support docs. I'm not actually sure how to check if it's properly working ok on the router though, is there a guide anywhere for validating IPv6 on devices? Seems like all devices have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses so I assume it's up to the device what it uses? Only asking as in my MW2 network settings in-game, it shows my internal IP address as an IPv4 one which I would've assumed would show as an IPv6 address.

I haven’t enabled IPv6 just yet, still on my same setup with no changes.

Playing tonight and the Geo Filter isn't picking up any servers at all on the map. Can see Traffic Prioritisation picking up Duma Classified games though. Tried restarting the Xbox and no luck with it. Still ongoing issues with Geo Filter at the moment? I tried UK, Europe and the US to experiment with no luck.

I bought a VPN subscription after seeing some Netgear Duma models were advertised with HybridVPN and was surprised the XR500 had it but the XR1000 didn't. Is the XR500 easier to develop for? Curious why the XR1000 is complicated - assuming it comes with extra levels of Netgear functionality that complicates things a bit or is it something else like the hardware configuration?

I haven't had time to check this yet but will reply as soon as I do. Netgear raised an RMA for various issues I highlighted so I'll see if a replacement fixes any of the issues too. For NAT related issues, would it be worth using IPv6? I currently have this disabled but seen mixed results with people enabling it to sort out Xbox related NAT issues?

I see the Dublin server being pinged but I haven’t checked outside of UK/ parts of Europe so I’ll check that in a bit.

Update: my last reply was when I tested this issue on one Xbox and it worked ok but when you have 2, both end up with Strict NAT issues with GeoFilter on. As soon as one toggles off it gets Open, the other stays on Strict, when I turn off the other it becomes Open again. It says it can’t resolve a Toredo IP Address with it on so seems like something gets blocked still. Not sure if it’s worth a test for the dev’s on your side with 2 consoles on with Geo Filter turned on as 1 console seems ok.

Thanks for that, I’ll give port forwarding another go and then test our port triggering and see what I get. I was on the Netgear page today just looking at the various articles they have on the XR1000 just in case there was something I was missing. I came across this page (https://kb.netgear.com/24290/How-do-I-add-a-custom-port-forwarding-service-on-my-NETGEAR-router?language=en_US) which states the order in the Port Forwarding table is important as it scans the top entry first and works its way down. Even though it’s an article that links from the XR1000 support page, it seems like a generic one that probably goes across multiple Netgear routers. If that is the case with the order of ports, would it be possible to add the ability to reorganise the port table? I believe at the moment it orders the table in order of last modified. Could that be a possible factor with port forwarding not quite working as expected? Seems like the Geo Filter issue is linked to some servers not being whitelisted as discussed in another thread here and Geo Filter blocking them so happy that issue should be resolved after that now. Would explain the intermittent issues with NAT I’ve been having lately and why it works when turning it off. I thought I came across a router bug but persisted after a factory reset. I didn’t realise there was a whitelist for servers as part of it (which 100% makes sense) but good to know in future if I come across this issue again - will just report it on a thread here.

Could this be an issue with the XR1000’s implementation of UPnP causing issues? Looking online, it seems like some routers work fine with sticking to port 3074 and others don’t. I don’t really understand why port forwarding 3074 to one and 3075 to the other doesn’t keep them on those ports?

No, I’m just on the latest Xbox firmware, same with the XR1000. Bit of a nightmare trying to play 2 Xbox’s on the same network without a good bit of latency being added. Any news on HybridVPN coming to the XR1000? I heard that can help latency issues with multiple consoles using the same network - have one on VPN and another on the network normally. Feel like the only way it’s gonna get resolved at this point is hoping VPN works or getting an additional line into the house which I hope I won’t have to do 🤦🏻‍♂️

I factory reset the router today as well to rule out any issues. Geo Filter hasn’t caused any issues since then either

I disabled UPnP, manually port forwarded all Xbox ports to one console - left the other one off for now just to test. NAT type is Open which is good but the port on the Xbox won’t stay at 3074, it always switched to an alternative port. It’ll stay at 3074 on the Xbox for about 10 - 20s before changing to a random one. Wish you could just manually select 3074 rather than only being able to select it by setting the port to automatic, quite annoying.

I managed to sort the issue out after restarting everything and using IP Address Reservation instead of a static IP - set it on the Xbox as well as I came across an issue where the Xbox assigned an internal IP address automatically rather that getting one assigned by DHCP. Did a lot of trial and error today and it seems if the Xbox stays on port 3074, it’s fine but it seems to change after a random amount of time and I notice considerable issues playing Call of Duty with time to kill and time to death. I have to keep going into my Xbox settings to switch to a random manual port and then back to automatic which chooses 3074 again but doesn’t stick. It’s really noticeable how much the game changes when this happens. If I use port forwarding rules for the IP for 3074, it will show it in automatic for about 10s before changing to a random 5***** number and won’t stay at 3074 no matter what I do. From doing some research, it seems UPnP is responsible. Any way to workaround this?

So now I have Open NAT after resetting everything but still disconnecting from Party chat. I ran a network test on my Xbox and it's saying I have 100% Packet Loss - totally puzzled what's going on with this.