Cisco 800 series routers

[John Blakley]

All,

I think I already know the answer to this, but are there any of the 800 series routers that support either UPnP or an equivalent? I think I'm going to have to go with a Linksys router for that.

Thanks,

John

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello John,

Happy New Year!

just to make more clear

what do you mean with "UPnP"?

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[Jon Marshall · Accepted solution]

j.blakley wrote:
All,
I think I already know the answer to this, but are there any of the 800 series routers that support either UPnP or an equivalent? I think I'm going to have to go with a Linksys router for that.
Thanks,
John

John

Long time no see

I assume you are talking about UPnP forwarding ?. If so this seems to be more of a home user function and so it isn't supported on the 800 series routers as far as i know.

Jon

[John Blakley]

Happy New Year Giuseppe and John! UPnP is a function for home users to be able to support UPnP devices behind a natted address. I have two XBoxes (one for me and my son has one), and I'm running a Cisco 871W now. The problem is that Microsoft doesn't allow you to change the ports that it runs on and it relies on three types of NAT: Strict, Moderate, or Open. Open NAT allows you to be able to chat, play online, etc, without restrictions. In order to get this to work with my XBox, I needed to forward ports to mine only, but I can't do that for two for the same port.

So, I can start a game and my son can join, but he can't join 75% of the time to others because his nat type is set to strict. UPnP solves that problem and shows both open (I tested with an old Dlink router that I had). The Dlink doesn't support QoS though, which I need. In order for me to keep the Cisco router, I'd need to buy a block of addresses from my provider, and then forward one address to each XBox. While that would solve my problem, it would be less expensive to buy a Linksys router in the long run. :-)

Thanks!

John

P.S. I HAVE to get on here more often. Work has been busy with new projects and all! Good to hear from you guys!