How To Open Ports in Your Router for Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 1 minutes

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a Fighting game published by Nintendo released in 2008.

Since Super Smash Bros. Brawl 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 Super Smash Bros. Brawl

When you are playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl 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

Our Network Utilities software makes port forwarding a breeze. You can be done in just a few minutes.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Super Smash Bros. Brawl Require

The incoming connection ports for Super Smash Bros. Brawl are as follows:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Wii

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Super Smash Bros. Brawl that will show you the necessary ports.

That's all it takes to forward your ports. Have more games that need a boost? Check out our growing list of games and applications.

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