Xbox live NAT is strict, new place and need help!

[packerjd04]

Hey guys i just moved into a new townhouse up at school and i plugged my ethernet straight from the wall into my xbox. While this worked perfectly when i actually lived ON campus now that i live off campus this place has given me a strict NAT when i plug in. I thought if i plugged in a router to the wall then the ethernet from my xbox to router it might open the NAT but that didnt work. ANY help would be awesome, thanks guys.

[redtop91]

You'll need to go through the router. What kind of router do you have?

[packerjd04]

linksys, and ive actually got it to work most of the time. Then other times it craps out and goes back to strict. I enabled the upnp and it opened it and it confuses me to why it goes strict sometimes, i think i need to make my xbox have a static IP. any suggestions?