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NAT type PS4

DPN137 — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:05:16 GMT

Good evening,

I am trying ot game online and either get absolutely terrible connection or cannot connect online at all. After much searching I discovered this may be down to my 'NAT Type'. I checked on my network settings on the PS4 to discover I was on NAT type 3, which is apparently a restricted type. I understand this is a router firewall issue?

After logging into my router on my browser, I could not see any immediate options to change this at all and after further investigation, the solutions online seemed complicated or were not relevant to the 4GEE router that I have.

Please could somebody from the community help? I am worried I will have to change service provider over this, because it's frankly unacceptable for this to be something that cannot be changed.

Thank you.

Re: NAT type PS4

XRaySpeX — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:22:19 GMT

It is possible that you are up against a limitation of EE's mobile network. The EE mobile network uses Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) resulting in a double NAT, which means that you don't get your own public IP address but share it with other users. So you can't be uniquely id'ed on the Net & therefore your LAN cannot be addressed from outside for unsolicited accesses. This is unlike fixed BB.

Re: NAT type PS4

DPN137 — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:24:11 GMT

Does this mean that I will never be able to have my NAT type changed while using EE's mobile network?

Re: NAT type PS4

XRaySpeX — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:40:26 GMT

IMHO: Probably, altho' there are EE users reporting they are successfully playing these game controllers over the EE mobile network.

Re: NAT type PS4

DPN137 — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:45:56 GMT

Can you point me in the direction of these people? As lots of the posts I have seen are very confusing.

Thank you.

Re: NAT type PS4

XRaySpeX — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:51:27 GMT

Only by searching the Community, which you can do equally well.