How to Port Forward in Your Router for Tell Me Why

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December 13, 2019 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Tell Me Why is an Adventure game published by Xbox Games Studios released in 2020.

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Since Tell Me Why 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 Tell Me Why.

How to Port Forward Tell Me Why

When you are playing Tell Me Why 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 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

Use our Network Utilities for a quick way to get your ports forwarded. Network utilities makes it easy to enable and disable your port forwards to keep your network security as tight as possible. You can also do it by hand by following these steps.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Tell Me Why Require

The connection ports for Tell Me Why are as follows:

Tell Me Why - PC

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

Tell Me Why - Xbox One

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

Tell Me Why - Steam

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Tell Me Why that will show you the specific ports.

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want to learn how to create more port forwards? Check out our list of games and applications.

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