Forward the Sony Network ports in your router to your PlayStation, or.In order to get NAT Type 2 on your PlayStation you need to do one of the following: NAT Type 2 is the goal when setting up a PlayStation. It will bring the rest of your home network down. The problem with bridging your router is that the PlayStation will be the only device that can talk on your network. There is one Hail Mary pass method of getting NAT Type 1 behind a router and that is to put your router in bridged mode. A proper DMZ pointing at your PlayStation is as good as a no-router connection to the internet and there is no reason to give it any less than "full connection" status.
This is a pretty good guess because using every trick in the book from forwarding ports to a full DMZ of the PlayStation still tends to only yield NAT Type 2, which is bizarre. Sony has not told anyone what the criteria for a Type 1 connection are, but many people suspect that one of the things the PlayStation looks for is if you have an IP address in the ".x" range then you are not going to get NAT Type 1. In order to have NAT Type 1 on your PlayStation you need to ditch your router. We've bolded Type 2 because that is the usual goal with a PlayStation. It appears that NAT Type 2 and NAT Type 3 are the same, but they are very different. Type 3: The system is connected to the Internet with a router.Type 2: The system is connected to the Internet with a router.Type 1: The system is connected directly to the Internet.According to their official documentation, the 3 different NAT Types are: Sony decided to name NAT Types with a number ranging from 1 to 3, with 1 being the best and 3 being the worst. The real confusion comes from their choice of different names for the state of your NAT. The two major gaming console types, Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox, both suffer in a closed NAT environment. In a multiplayer game, these incoming connections are sometimes required for joining lobbies and voice chat. This is because the router doesn't know which internal device the incoming connection was intended for. Connections coming into your network from the outside are dropped by default.The important thing is that the connection was created from inside your network so it made it out. Once the connection is established data flows both in and out. Connections created from inside your home network like surfing the web, checking email, and joining a game work fine because the router passes the connection request out.NAT has the following effects on a network: For most things, it works great, but sometimes it breaks the internet. It started a long time ago when ISP's didn't want to give out more than one IP address to customers, so home routers were invented that would take that single external IP address and fake it into a bunch of internal IP addresses.
Put simply, NAT is the technology that makes your home network. The goal of this article is to describe the different NAT Types, but it's hard to talk about without a quick background of what NAT is.
If you are gaming on a console, such as the Playstation 5 or the Xbox Series X, and have searched the internet for information about how to fix a problem you have doubtless come across people talking about NAT Type. J(Last Updated: September 14, 2021) | Reading Time: 12 minutes