Forward Ports on Your Router for Nintendo Switch Sports

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Nintendo Switch Sports is a Sports and Party/Minigame game published by Nintendo released in 2022.

Nintendo Switch Sports artwork showing games of Badminton, Volleyball, and Soccer
Nintendo Switch Sports artwork showing games of Badminton, Volleyball, and Soccer

Which Ports Does Nintendo Switch Sports Require

The ports that need to be forwarded for Nintendo Switch Sports are as follows:

Nintendo Switch Sports - Switch

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

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Nintendo Switch Sports simply follow one of these links:

Nintendo Switch Sports includes the following styles of gameplay.

Forward Ports for Nintendo Switch Sports

When you are playing Nintendo Switch Sports 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 sometimes 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

An easy way to do this is use our Network Utilities software. It can open your ports with just a few clicks. Then when you are done you can just was quickly close your ports again. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

After following those steps your ports should be forwarded. Head to our applications and games list for more port forwarding guides.

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