How to Forward Ports in Your Router for SimEarth: The Living Planet

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September 24, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

SimEarth: The Living Planet is Maxis's Strategy game with a release date in 1990.

SimEarth: The Living Planet 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.

Forward Ports for SimEarth: The Living Planet

When you are playing SimEarth: The Living Planet 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 find 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 SimEarth: The Living Planet Require

The incoming ports that need to be forwarded for SimEarth: The Living Planet are as follows:

SimEarth: The Living Planet - PC

  • We do not know the PC ports for SimEarth: The Living Planet yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

SimEarth: The Living Planet - Wii

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1-65535

We have guides that are custom tailored for SimEarth: The Living Planet that will show you the necessary ports.

That's all it takes to forward your ports. Have more games that need a boost? Check out our growing list of games and applications.

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