Port Forwarding on Your Router for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition

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September 24, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition is Konami's Action, Adventure, and Stealth game released in 2011.

When you play Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition you will enjoy the following styles of play.

Forward Ports for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition

When you are playing Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition 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 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

Use our Network Utilities for a quick way to get your ports forwarded. Network utilities makes it easy to enable and disable your port forwards to keep your network security as tight as possible. You can also do it by hand by following these steps.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition Require

The network ports for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition are as follows:

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition - Playstation 3

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

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

We have guides that are custom tailored for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - HD Edition that will show you the connection ports.

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