How to Port Forward Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots

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

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is an Action, Adventure, and Stealth game published by Konami released in 2008.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots offers the following styles of gameplay.

How to Port Forward Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

When you are playing Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 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 click the links to get to 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

An easy way to do this is use our Network Utilities software. It can open your ports with just a few clicks. Then when you are done you can just was quickly close your ports again. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Require

The necessary ports that need to be forwarded for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots are as follows:

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - Playstation 3

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots that will show you the ports.

After following those steps your ports should be forwarded. Head to our applications and games list for more port forwarding guides.

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