[dfc]

If that was the case you screwed up forwarding ports 88 and 3074 to your xbox. Anybody that cares about XBL match outcomes does not connect without making use of port forwarding or their router's "DMZ." As far as comparative advantages go, this helped you with the bottom 20% of XBL. Moreover I am pretty sure that MW2 did lag compensation so I am not sure it was an "advantage."

[recursive]

I would be amazed if 80% of XBL users are forwarding ports on their routers. I've never heard of this before.

[dfc]

Respectfully, if you have never heard of port forwarding before I think that you might not be very informed when it comes to XBL. Or maybe you have never heard of port forwarding because you bought a device with UPNP and therefore you never noticed the problems that can result from lack of port forwarding.

Port forwarding has been a must for quality FPS match making since the beginning. What XBL games do you play?

[Lewisham]

It really depends whether he plays a game that warns about it. The dashboard only warns about a Moderate NAT if you run a network test. Of the games I played, only Halo 3 warned about Moderate NAT. Halo 4 doesn't bother anymore.

So I don't think he's not "very informed." He's the normal player base. I don't even bother setting up NAT anymore and it works fine, even though I know I should go through the rigmarole of doing it.

[randomhunt]

UPnP?