Creating a Port Forward in Your Router for Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers

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March 20, 2020 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers is Wizards of the Coast's Card Game, Turn-Based, and Strategy game with a release date in 2009.

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When you play Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers you will experience the following styles of play.

How to Port Forward Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers

When you are playing Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 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 on occasion 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 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

A smart way to forward your ports is to use Network Utilities. Since Network Utilities allows you to both forward and un-forward ports easily you can keep your network security maximized, and then forward ports only when you need them. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

Ports To Forward for Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers

The ports for Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers are as follows:

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers - Playstation 3

  • TCP: 3478-3480, 5223, 8080
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3658

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers - Steam

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

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers simply follow one of these links:

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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