Forwarding Ports in Your Router for NBA Playgrounds

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September 24, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

NBA Playgrounds is Mad Dog Games's Arcade and Sports game with a release date in 2017.

NBA Playgrounds offers the following genres of gameplay.

Port Forward NBA Playgrounds

When you are playing NBA Playgrounds 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 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

Quickly get your ports forwarded using Network Utilities. Then when you are done you can just as easily close your ports back down to keep your network as secure as possible. You can also do it manually.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for NBA Playgrounds

The specific ports for NBA Playgrounds are as follows:

NBA Playgrounds - Steam

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

NBA Playgrounds - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

NBA Playgrounds - Switch

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

NBA Playgrounds - Xbox One

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for NBA Playgrounds that will show you the network ports.

That should be all you have to do to forward your ports. Check our growing list of games and applications for more port forwarding guides.

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