How to Port Forward Sleeping Dogs

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

Sleeping Dogs is Square Enix's Action and Adventure game with a release date in 2012.

When you play Sleeping Dogs you will enjoy the following styles of play.

Forward Ports for Sleeping Dogs

When you are playing Sleeping Dogs 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 click the links to get to 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

The fastest way to forward a port is to use our Network Utilities suite of tools. With our software you can quickly and easily turn your port forwards on and off for multiple programs at any time. Or just keep reading to learn how to do it by hand.

The normal process for forwarding a port is:

Ports To Forward for Sleeping Dogs

The ports that need to be forwarded for Sleeping Dogs are as follows:

Sleeping Dogs - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Sleeping Dogs - Playstation 3

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

Sleeping Dogs - PC

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

Sleeping Dogs - Playstation 4

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

Sleeping Dogs - Xbox One

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Sleeping Dogs 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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