and restart the modem like 4 times after a long day of 5 hours it went to Nat 2 so called them see what they say I am with Bigpond and my PS3 has a Type 2 Strict NAT and my brothers XBox 360 has a Strict NAT too. I have a strict on MW2 and Black Ops and About a year ago before i got my ps3 my brother had a open NAT on MW2. What can we do to get an Open NAT? Please respond. Thanks, Benno i cant connect to my friend in mw3 and i can't even start a voice chat with him. we have the same ISP (we live in the same building), both consoles have in game moderate Nat (NAT type 2 in the INTERNET connection test; necessary ports have been forwarded) as we don't have private IP's. According to this given matrix we should connect just fine so what can be the problem ? also recently my friend can't complete console's internet connection test, during PSN availability check the test fails but after quiting the test he has no problem in loging in and playing online. would it help if one of us/both got a private IP (extra monthly cost for internet services) Well I got a balkin router. I can hook my ipod, phone and computer but my ps3 wont. I tried everything and I don't know what to do anymore. It connects to the ip address and everything else besides nat2