Having NAT2 For a Better Playstation Network

To get the most out of your gaming experience with the Playstation Network, there are some things that you need to know about the games. Most of the multiplayer ones rely on the fact that you have to connect to other people. Soooo…. if can’t connect to them, it’s not as great of an experience, right? Apparently many games respond better with NAT2 and you can connect with more people. So here’s how to do it:

1. Check to see if your PS3 already has NAT2 connection. You can either test your Internet connection, or check the Internet connection status. If it already says NAT2, then you’re good to go and you don’t have to worry about it.
   
2. If the connection is NAT3, then you have to do some PS3 and router configuration. First you have to set up your IP to be static on your local network. Figure out what you what the IP as and fill in the rest of the broadcast and other information.
   
3. On the router side, you need to port forward some ports to your PS3’s static LAN IP. These ones you need to do NAT2. TCP: 80, 443, 5223 UDP: 3478, 3479, 3658 You may wish to just forward the UDP range of 3478-3658 instead of the single ones to remove two steps.
   
4. Check your PS3 connection. If you’ve done all of this, you should now have a NAT2 connection

The reason for all of this is because there has been some issues identified in the past with Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 (different ports) games. Specifically, Fat Princess happened to have some network issues and the developers announced that along with the fact that the main servers are getting bombarded, there’s also the NAT2 issue that’s more of an ongoing thing.

In any case… check your connections and you might be able to get a little more juice out of your network.