Open Ports on Your Router for Genshin Impact

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August 22, 2020 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Genshin Impact is miHoYo's Open-World, Action, Adventure, and Role-Playing game released in 2020.

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Ports To Forward for Genshin Impact

The required incoming ports for Genshin Impact are as follows:

Genshin Impact - PC

  • TCP: 42472
  • UDP: 22101-22102, 42472

Genshin Impact - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 3478-3480, 42472
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 22101-22102, 42472

Genshin Impact - Playstation 5

  • TCP: 3478-3480, 42472
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 22101-22102, 42472

Genshin Impact - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900-29901, 29920, 42472
  • UDP: 1-65535

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Genshin Impact simply follow one of these links:

Genshin Impact includes the following styles of gameplay.

Port Forward Genshin Impact

When you are playing Genshin Impact 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 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 generally:

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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