How do I get "NAT Type 1" ?

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Hi there

I am on Virgin Media's 50MB Fiber Optic Super Hub package and on my PS3 I get Nat Type 2, which is fine.

However I am looking how to get Nat Type 1. All the methods online I've found require PPPoE Account, however I've been told virgin media dont work with PPPoE.

Any other ideas?
 
Is there any reason you need NAT 1 or do you simply WANT NAT1? In my experience, there's really no need for 1 as 2 works just fine.
 
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Is there any reason you need NAT 1 or do you simply WANT NAT1? In my experience, there's really no need for 1 as 2 works just fine.
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Well, for a game called Resistance: Fall of Man in particular, there is a few guys running it on that game and they all say it directly fixes any lag issues they experience on that game... and they can see and react to things a split second quicker too.

I have 50MB Fiber Optic, and these guys lag to me, but they say it's cause they're on Open Nat Type 1 and it just appears that way. Every top player on that game is using Nat 1 except me...
I am really just looking to have it in either case to see for myself.

Cheers.
 
The way I understand it, NAT type 1 isn't really NAT at all. It's seeing the ISP's IP address for your house on the PS3, i.e. connect the PS3 directly to the cable modem, no router in between. The PS3 takes your Internet IP address and is directly connected to the Internet.

You can't set the NAT type, it's just reporting what it's discovered. If the PS3 knows its own IP address is the same as what's reported by an Internet query ("Hey! What's my IP?") then it knows it's NAT 1.

Mine is NAT 2, I've never seen otherwise or tried to connect without my router, so I may be talking out my ....... well, without knowing for sure.
 
You need to directly connect your PS3 to your modem. Meaning you aren't splitting your connection with any other device (PC, Xbox.etc). So, it would be wired directly to your modem, no switches or routers.
 
Any decent router shouldn't add more than 1ms between your modem and your computer/PS3, so that's undetectable for any human.

I would check your router and see if it has any 'handy' features that can be disabled. E.g. my router had malware/virus protection enabled by default, which impacts latency as well as throughput. Turning that off resulted in identical latency to hooking my computer up to the modem directly (<1ms). Also make sure no other device is hogging the connection (e.g. a smartphone downloading updates or something like that, or a family member downloading movies).
 
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Turning that off resulted in identical latency to hooking my computer up to the modem directly (<1ms).
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How did you manage to hook it up to the modem directly? Basically, I am looking to have the Nat Type changed to 1... even if the results are the same.. I just was curious to see for myself...

and thanks to everyone elses replies... apparently its easy if you assign a PPPoE account in the IP Settings of the PS3 or something? But Virgin Media doesnt use PPPoE.
 
KraigA
How did you manage to hook it up to the modem directly? Basically, I am looking to have the Nat Type changed to 1... even if the results are the same.. I just was curious to see for myself...

and thanks to everyone elses replies... apparently its easy if you assign a PPPoE account in the IP Settings of the PS3 or something? But Virgin Media doesnt use PPPoE.
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You get an ethernet cable.. and plug it into the router/modem, and plug the other end into your ps3..
 
KraigA
How did you manage to hook it up to the modem directly? Basically, I am looking to have the Nat Type changed to 1... even if the results are the same.. I just was curious to see for myself...
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Ethernet cable, my (cable) ISP's modem allows direct connection (has builtin router).
 

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