Question about port forwarding to Xbox360

[cornelio]

Hi,

I have a Linsys WRT54G2 router and have successfully configured port forwarding with my main Xbox360. What I did was assign the address 192.168.1.100 to my computer, 192.168.1.101 to my main xbox360, 192.168.1.102 to my second xbox360 and 192.168.1.1 as the gateway and have also configured the two server ip addresses manually on each device. The only problem is when I try to configure the second xbox360 with the same ports the router says that a port overlap occured, please change your entry, any idea what this means or I can not simply configure the same ports with two devices? Here is a link on how I have set up port forwarding on the router. http://twitpic.com/9tgaba

Any help appreciated.

 

[yinan]

This is supposed to happen. You can only forward incoming traffic on a port to 1 device otherwise the router will not know what to do with it.

Also, you should not need to do any port forwarding in order to get a 360 online. I didn't have to.

 

[cornelio]

Hi,

I use port forwarding to open the ports the xbox360 uses and for utorrent, so my internet could run more faster, but if you can't forward the same ports to two devices, I will use them for my main xbox360 and computer.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[JackMDS]

If a Device or Application has the choice of changing specific ports, you can use same port function for few devices.

Example, The remote control program called VNC by default uses port 5900.

You can alter in VNC in second computer to 5901.

Then, you can forward port 5900 toward VNC on one computer, and port 5901 on another.

Research the port usage and its capacity to be changed on your Devices/Applications.

 

[cornelio]

One last question, I have both xbox360 using a wired connection, will port forwarding will work for both xbox360 if I connect one xbox 360 wireless and leave the other wired?

Thanks.