How To Open Ports in Your Router for Halo: The Master Chief Collection

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March 14, 2019 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a First-Person, Shooter, and Action game published by Microsoft Studios, Xbox Game Studios released in 2014.

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Ports To Forward for Halo: The Master Chief Collection

The specific ports for Halo: The Master Chief Collection are as follows:

Halo: The Master Chief Collection - Xbox One

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

Halo: The Master Chief Collection - PC

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

Halo: The Master Chief Collection - Steam

  • TCP: 3074, 27015, 27036
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500, 27015, 27031-27036

Halo: The Master Chief Collection - Xbox Series X

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

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Halo: The Master Chief Collection simply follow one of these links:

Halo: The Master Chief Collection offers the following styles of gameplay.

Port Forward Halo: The Master Chief Collection

When you are playing Halo: The Master Chief Collection 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:

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

Don't have time? Use our Network Utilities software. It's the fastest way to both open and close ports in your router. Of you can do it manually if you want.

The normal process for forwarding a port is:

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.

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