How to Port Forward in Your Router for Torchlight

Torchlight is an Action, Hack & Slash, Role-Playing, and Adventure game published by Runic Games, Perfect World, Encore, JoWooD Entertainment, Microsoft Studios released in 2009.

The ports that need to be forwarded in your router for Torchlight are as follows:

Torchlight - Steam

• TCP: 27015, 27036
• UDP: 27015, 27031-27036

Torchlight - PC

• We do not know the PC ports for Torchlight yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

Torchlight - Xbox 360

• TCP: 3074
• UDP: 88, 3074

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Torchlight simply follow one of these links:

• Torchlight - Steam
• Torchlight - Xbox 360

Torchlight offers the following styles of gameplay.

• Action games are fast paced and tend to put the player in the middle of the action, requiring you to jump over obstacles, climb ladders, and shoot things.
• In a hack-and-slash style of game you spend most of the time just killing wave after wave of creatures. They are strongly emphasize combat over anything else. Hack-and-slash style games are usually also considered action games.
• In a role playing game, or RPG, the player takes on the role of the main character and helps the story line to unfold. It usually involves a very long play time, inventory management, and a deep leveling system. RPG's are usually the longest style of game. Skyrim and Fallout are amongst the most popular RPG style games.
• An adventure game is where the player is usually the protagonist and plays through an evolving story. The storyline is the driving part of an adventure game.

When you are playing Torchlight 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 can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• The IP address of your router.
• Your gaming machine's IP address.
• A list of TCP and UDP ports that need to be forwarded.

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.

The easiest 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 process for forwarding a port is usually:

• Login to your router.
• Find your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the correct box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the corresponding boxes in your router.
• On occasion you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.