Create a Port Forward for Lab Rat in your Router

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August 14, 2021 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Lab Rat is a Puzzle and Adventure game published by Chump Squad released in 2022.

Lab Rat game art showing player suspended above a room with a big x marked on the floor.
Lab Rat game art showing player suspended above a room with a big x marked on the floor.

Which Ports Does Lab Rat Require

The ports that need to be forwarded for Lab Rat are as follows:

Lab Rat - Steam

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

Lab Rat - Xbox Series X

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

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Lab Rat includes the following styles of gameplay.

How to Port Forward Lab Rat

When you are playing Lab Rat 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 intermittently 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 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

An easy way to do this is use our Network Utilities software. It can open your ports with just a few clicks. Then when you are done you can just was quickly close your ports again. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

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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