Opening Ports for Proximity HD using Your Router

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January 24, 2019 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Proximity HD is Microsoft Studios's Strategy game released in 2008.

Proximity HD is considered a strategy game. Most strategy games tend to focus on skillful thinking and planning in order to beat either bots, or sometimes real players. They can be either real-time in which the play clock ticks continuously or turn-based where each player has a dedicated turn to finish their action. They frequently include exploration and resource management.

How to Port Forward Proximity HD

When you are playing Proximity HD you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and frequently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to locate your router's IP Address

The easiest way to find your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

Most people use our Network Utilities software package to forward ports. It's the easiest way to forward ports when you need them and then close them when you do not. You can also do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

Which Ports Does Proximity HD Require

The specific ports for Proximity HD are as follows:

Proximity HD - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

We have guides that are custom tailored for Proximity HD that will show you the ports.

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.

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