How to Forward Ports in Your Router for Lost Planet 2

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

Lost Planet 2 is Capcom's Third-Person, Shooter, and Action game released in 2010.

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Lost Planet 2 includes the following genres of gameplay.

How to Port Forward Lost Planet 2

When you are playing Lost Planet 2 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

A smart way to forward your ports is to use Network Utilities. Since Network Utilities allows you to both forward and un-forward ports easily you can keep your network security maximized, and then forward ports only when you need them. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Lost Planet 2

The specific incoming ports for Lost Planet 2 are as follows:

Lost Planet 2 - Steam

  • TCP: 3074, 27015-27030, 27036-27037
  • UDP: 3074-3075, 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

Lost Planet 2 - Playstation 3

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

Lost Planet 2 - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Lost Planet 2 simply follow one of these links:

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