Opening Ports for SCP: Containment Breach using Your Router

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November 27, 2020 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

SCP: Containment Breach is a First-Person, Survival, and Action game published by Undertow Games released in 2012.

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When you play SCP: Containment Breach you will experience the following styles of play.

Port Forward SCP: Containment Breach

When you are playing SCP: Containment Breach 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 frequently 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

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 usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for SCP: Containment Breach

The network ports for SCP: Containment Breach are as follows:

SCP: Containment Breach - PC

  • TCP:
  • UDP: 50001

We have guides that are custom tailored for SCP: Containment Breach that will show you the ports.

That's all it takes to forward your ports. Have more games that need a boost? Check out our growing list of games and applications.

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