Port Forwarding on Your Router for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond

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February 27, 2021 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond is an Adventure, Role-Playing, and Strategy game published by The Pokémon Company, Nintendo released in 2021.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond artwork featuring Dialga
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond artwork featuring Dialga

Ports Required for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond

The required ports that need to be forwarded for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond are as follows:

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond - Switch

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

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

When you play Pokémon Brilliant Diamond you will experience the following styles of play.

How to Port Forward Pokémon Brilliant Diamond

When you are playing Pokémon Brilliant Diamond 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 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

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 usual process for forwarding a port is:

When you are done following those steps your ports will be open. Do you need more games or programs forwarded? Check out our games and programs list.

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