How to Open a Port in Your Router for Shadows: Awakening

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January 16, 2019 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Shadows: Awakening is a Tactical, Action, and Role-Playing game published by Kalypso Media Digital released in 2018.

Shadows: Awakening includes the following genres of gameplay.

Port Forward Shadows: Awakening

When you are playing Shadows: Awakening 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 find 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

Most people use our Network Utilities software package to forward ports. It's the easiest way to forward ports when you need them and then close them when you do not. You can also do it by hand.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Shadows: Awakening

The connection ports for Shadows: Awakening are as follows:

Shadows: Awakening - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Shadows: Awakening - Steam

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

Shadows: Awakening - Xbox One

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Shadows: Awakening that will show you the ports.

After that your ports should be open. Check out our full game and application list for more port forwarding guides.

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