Opening Ports for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate using Your Router

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a Fighting, Action, Beat-Em-Up, Survival, and Strategy game published by Nintendo released in 2018.

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Ports To Forward for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

The ports that need to be forwarded for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are as follows:

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1-65535

We have guides that are custom tailored for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate that will show you the required ports that need to be forwarded.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate offers the following genres of gameplay.

Port Forward Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

When you are playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 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 on occasion 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

A smart way to forward your ports is to use Network Utilities. Since Network Utilities allows you to both forward and un-forward ports easily you can keep your network security maximized, and then forward ports only when you need them. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

After that you're done - your ports should be open. Wait, there's more... Check out our growing list of games and applications.

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