Opening Ports for Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age using Your Router

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age is Square Enix's Role-Playing, Turn-Based, Open-World, Action, and Adventure game released in 2017.

When you play Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age you will experience the following styles of play.

In a role playing game, or RPG, the player takes on the role of the main character and helps the story line to unfold. It usually involves a very long play time, inventory management, and a deep leveling system. RPG's are usually the longest style of game. Skyrim and Fallout are amongst the most popular RPG style games.
Turn based games have each player take a dedicated turn. Players can frequently manage their inventory, cards, or characters while the other player is making their move.
Open world style games are usually not on rails, meaning that the player gets to go anywhere and solve problems in the order that they choose. The player is usually allowed to roam freely through a normally massive environment.
Games that are considered action are all about centering the player in the middle of an evolving situation.
In an adventure game you generally play through a story, usually as the protagonist. They rely heavily on story telling and can be inspired from books or movies.

How to Port Forward Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

When you are playing Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age 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 intermittently 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:

The IP address of your router.
Your gaming machine's IP address.
A list of TCP and UDP ports to forward.

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

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:

Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
Locate your routers port forwarding section.
Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the appropriate box in your router.
Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the corresponding boxes in your router.
Frequently you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

Ports To Forward for Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

The ports that need to be forwarded in your router for Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age are as follows:

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Playstation 4

TCP: 1935, 3478-3480

UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Switch

TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920

UDP: 1-65535

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Steam

TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037

UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - PC

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Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Xbox One

TCP: 3074

UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500