Forgive me for sounding a bit ignorant. Networking has developed in ways my poor brain can no longer keep up with. Guess I killed too many brain cells at some point. But isnt there more than one form of NAT? I swear I remember reading this somewhere. I mean, NAT is just a hardware extrapolation of what we used to call IP Masquerading isnt it? It seems to work about the same to me anyway.
All I know is, I bought this little Linksys router 2 or 3 years ago, despite bad reviews on over heating (which I have never had a problem with by the way). I did have to upgrade the firmware, but other than that it has performed flawlessly for me in Aces High all along. And yes, its an NAT router. I've never had problems with vox, while HTC was trying to implement fixes for everyone else.
Anyway, IIRC, there is one type of NAT router that uses port mapping, and one kind that doesnt. Could this be where the problem is?
Also (and this has nothing to do with the question at hand really, just curious), one of the reasons for the development of NAT routers was to save IP addresses, so you could share one with a network, because of the limitations of IPv4. When we eventually switch to IPv6 do you think they'll stop making NAT type routers? I use it for security reasons, the same way my old Linux box used to do IP Masquerading for me.
Sorry for the hijack. Well, it IS related. Sort of.