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Originally Posted by General Maximus
If you get a proper router like the Linksys router you can set some static ip addresses no probs and set up port forwarding as well, the only proper is that I don't know how you would change what ports you can use on the consoles. But like qas said, they are designed to use a whole range of ports and switch automatically if they know there is a problem.
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Unfortunately, I think a lot of the ports are essentially static and cannot be adjusted. Once something else is listening on that port, they simply can't use it. It's annoying and frustrating as there's no good reason that should be the case in this day and age, especially as PSN (and xbox live, which has the same problem at least on the 360) offer a matchmaking service. How much more difficult is it to supply a port number alongside an IP address?