Help with connection please!!!!!

[borazps3]

my friend and i have comcast internet. he lives 200 miles away me. we are trying to play any game online(madden Nba 2k7, fight night) but we cant connect to eachother but we can play with the others.what is the problem.Any help????

[Mordraxx]

does one of you have perhaps some firewall settings that need changing?

but then again if u can connect to others no problem i dunno

[ClutchItUp]

You need to get your NAT opened up. The problem is that there is ports blocked that are not letting you connect. I had the same problem because I had a vonage box that also served as a router and it was keeping me from playing with certain people. As soon as I went and bought an actual router and opened up all the ports I had no problem...