How to Port Forward in Your Router for Vortex of Pain

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July 10, 2019 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Vortex of Pain is an Arcade, Action, Fighting, and Beat-Em-Up game published by Atomic Drop Games released in 2018.

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Vortex of Pain offers the following styles of play.

Port Forward Vortex of Pain

When you are playing Vortex of Pain 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

To easily and quickly get your ports forwarded use the Network Utilities software. Network Utilities allows you to forward ports only when you need them, and then close them again when you are done. This makes keeping your network more secure much easier. You can also do it by hand.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Vortex of Pain Require

The exact ports for Vortex of Pain are as follows:

Vortex of Pain - Steam

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

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

When you are done following those steps your ports will be forwarded. Be sure to check out our full list of games and programs that can be forwarded.

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