How to Forward Ports in Your Router for Dance Central: Spotlight

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Dance Central: Spotlight is Microsoft Game Studios's Music game with a release date in 2014.

Dance Central: Spotlight is a music style video game. In a music style of video game the gameplay focuses on playing musical instruments. Some music games like Rockband use instruments and microphones, while others like Rocksmith teach you how to play your own instrument with a special adapter cable. Other music style games employ trivia, memory, or focus on the experience of listening to the music.

Port Forward Dance Central: Spotlight

When you are playing Dance Central: Spotlight 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 on occasion 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 locate 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

Don't have time? Use our Network Utilities software. It's the easiest way to both open and close ports in your router. Of you can do it manually if you want.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Ports To Forward for Dance Central: Spotlight

The required ports that need to be forwarded for Dance Central: Spotlight are as follows:

Dance Central: Spotlight - Xbox One

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

We have guides that are custom tailored for Dance Central: Spotlight that will show you the required ports that need to be forwarded.

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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