How to Port Forward Aliens: Colonial Marines

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

Aliens: Colonial Marines is Sega's First Person Shooter game released in 2013.

Since Aliens: Colonial Marines 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 Aliens: Colonial Marines

When you are playing Aliens: Colonial Marines 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 find 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

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 general process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Aliens: Colonial Marines

The ports for Aliens: Colonial Marines are as follows:

Aliens: Colonial Marines - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Aliens: Colonial Marines - Playstation 3

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

Aliens: Colonial Marines - 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 Aliens: Colonial Marines simply follow one of these links:

When you are done following those steps your ports will be forwarded. Be sure to check out our full list of games and programs that can be forwarded.

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