topic Re: Smart hub plus port forwarding help. in Broadband & Landline

Smart hub plus port forwarding help.

DraigSW1 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:58:30 GMT

Hi,

So I have two gaming consoles. Series X and PS5. In call of duty: My PS5 has a moderate Nat type because my series x uses port 3074 for Xbox live.

i change my series x to use a different port for Xbox live (on its advanced settings). I restarted my router and ps5 is still moderate so I’m guessing port forwarding is the way forward?

How safe is it doing it on smart hub plus? And how do I do it.

I did it once before on smart hub 2 when with BT but I had a tech help me do it.

Re: Smart hub plus port forwarding help.

Christopher_G — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:32:18 GMT

Hi @DraigSW1

Welcome to the community.

It's safe to do, if done correctly. Have you tried following the steps on our Port Forwarding: Access an External Network or Server from Home help page?

Chris

Re: Smart hub plus port forwarding help.

DraigSW1 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:49:29 GMT

I did read this page and attempted it.

So my router doesn’t lock its internal ip addresses to devices, so I selected for ps5 to always use the same one.

I set to use UDP/TCP and I put the start and end of the both internal and external 3074. I called the rule call of duty.

Now I have an open Nat type in call of duty.

Is this the right way/safe way to do it?

P.S that’s the only port opened. I haven’t done any other port forwarding.

Re: Smart hub plus port forwarding help.

XRaySpeX — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:05:00 GMT

That should work if 3074 is the right port for PS5. Googling it tells me that's for XBox.