Open Ports on Your Router for Retention

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December 04, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Retention is an Adventure game published by Sometimes You released in 2015.

Since Retention is an adventure game you can expect to follow your character through a story, where you are the one who discovers the plot, solves the problems, and ultimately decides the fate of the game. Adventure style games tend to be longer than other styles of games and focus on the story. If you enjoy a game that has a large story element then you will most likely enjoy playing Retention.

Port Forward Retention

When you are playing Retention 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 sometimes 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 find 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

Most people use our Network Utilities software package to forward ports. It's the easiest way to forward ports when you need them and then close them when you do not. You can also do it by hand.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Retention

The connection ports for Retention are as follows:

Retention - PC

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

Retention - Steam

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Retention that will show you the ports.

After that your ports should be open. Check out our full game and application list for more port forwarding guides.

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