Programmatically helping NAT Translation [closed]

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I have a scenario where I have multiple mobile phones using a single home wifi router (read not special or expensive) When I get the phones to send almost identical requests to the same location the router appears to be dropping one phone and keeping the other (generally the faster of the two).

After testing for a while now, I'm closing in on the hypothesis that NAT translation is blocking one of the phones or dropping its returned info from the web.

The goal is to get both phones to communicate with a web application online through a generic home wifi without (key aspect here) modifying the router.

My communication is an AJAX request from within a PhoneGap application. Is there something that I can do programatically to help NAT work it's magic and support multiple phones?

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This turned out to be an unknown issue with the Web Host provider. Despite more than a dozen detailed requests for what on their side was blocking things I was always referred to how my own equipment or own code was at fault.

Set myself up a VPS and presto change-o I have a working system with no modifications to the code or the equipment.

TIL I don't like people who cover up their incompetency by blaming others.