How to Open a Port in Your Router for A Way Out

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

A Way Out is an Action and Adventure game published by Electronic Arts released in 2018.

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A Way Out offers the following genres of gameplay.

Port Forward A Way Out

When you are playing A Way Out 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 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 usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for A Way Out

The necessary ports for A Way Out are as follows:

A Way Out - PC

  • TCP: 8080
  • UDP:

A Way Out - Steam

  • TCP: 8080, 27015-27030, 27036-27037
  • UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

A Way Out - Playstation 4

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

A Way Out - Xbox One

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for A Way Out that will show you the required incoming ports.

That's all it takes to get your ports open. Don't forget to check out our growing list of games and programs.

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