Forward Ports on Your Router for Alien Swarm (UT2K4)

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Alien Swarm (UT2K4) is a Tactical, Action, and Shooter game published by Black Cat Games released in 2005.

Ports To Forward for Alien Swarm (UT2K4)

The ports that need to be forwarded for Alien Swarm (UT2K4) are as follows:

Alien Swarm (UT2K4) - PC

  • TCP: 28902
  • UDP: 7777-7778, 7787

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Alien Swarm (UT2K4) simply follow one of these links:

When you play Alien Swarm (UT2K4) you will enjoy the following styles of play.

Port Forward Alien Swarm (UT2K4)

When you are playing Alien Swarm (UT2K4) 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 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

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 usually:

That should be all you have to do to forward your ports. Check our growing list of games and applications for more port forwarding guides.

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