How to Forward Ports in Your Router for Doom Eternal

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June 10, 2019 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Doom Eternal is a First-Person, Action, and Shooter game published by Bethesda Softworks released in 2020.

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Doom Eternal includes the following genres of gameplay.

Forward Ports for Doom Eternal

When you are playing Doom Eternal 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 sometimes 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

The fastest way to forward a port is to use our Network Utilities suite of tools. With our software you can quickly and easily turn your port forwards on and off for multiple programs at any time. Or just keep reading to learn how to do it by hand.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Doom Eternal Require

The ports that need to be forwarded for Doom Eternal are as follows:

Doom Eternal - PC

  • TCP: 27014-27050
  • UDP: 3478, 4379-4380, 27000-27036

Doom Eternal - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Doom Eternal - Steam

  • TCP: 27014-27050
  • UDP: 3478, 4379-4380, 27000-27036

Doom Eternal - Switch

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

Doom Eternal - Xbox One

  • TCP: 3074, 3478-3479
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3478-3480, 3544, 4500

Doom Eternal - Playstation 5

  • TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Doom Eternal - Xbox Series X

  • TCP: 3074, 3478-3479
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3478-3480, 3544, 4500

We have guides that are custom tailored for Doom Eternal that will show you the network ports.

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want to learn how to create more port forwards? Check out our list of games and applications.

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