How to Port Forward Burnout Paradise

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

Burnout: Paradise is a Driving/Racing, Arcade, Open-World, and Action game published by Electronic Arts released in 2008.

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Burnout: Paradise includes the following styles of gameplay.

Port Forward Burnout: Paradise

When you are playing Burnout: Paradise 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 locate 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

Quickly get your ports forwarded using Network Utilities. Then when you are done you can just as easily close your ports back down to keep your network as secure as possible. You can also do it manually.

The process for forwarding a port is usually:

Ports Required for Burnout: Paradise

The required incoming ports for Burnout: Paradise are as follows:

Burnout: Paradise - PC

  • TCP: 3658-3659, 31800-31899
  • UDP: 3658-3659, 10070, 10080

Burnout: Paradise - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Burnout: Paradise - Playstation 3

  • TCP: 3478-3480, 5223, 8080
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3658

We have guides that are custom tailored for Burnout: Paradise that will show you the network ports.

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