Port Forwarding on Your Router for Sonic The Fighters

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Sonic The Fighters is Sega's Fighting game released in 2012.

Since Sonic The Fighters is a fighting style of game you can expect fast paced, side view, player vs. player fighting action. Like Moral Kombat, Tekken, or Dead or Alive, most fighting games are in an arena with 3d style graphics and really rely on the players reflexes.

Port Forward Sonic The Fighters

When you are playing Sonic The Fighters 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 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

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

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Ports To Forward for Sonic The Fighters

The necessary ports for Sonic The Fighters are as follows:

Sonic The Fighters - Playstation 3

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

Sonic The Fighters - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

We have guides that are custom tailored for Sonic The Fighters that will show you the required ports that need to be forwarded.

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want more? Check out our growing list of games and applications.

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