Forward Ports on Your Router for Sonic CD

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September 24, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Sonic CD is a Platformer game published by Sega released in 1996.

Sonic CD is considered a platform style of game, or simply a platformer. Platformer games are action games where the players reflexes are put to the test while jumping a character from platform to platform, usually in a side view. Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong are popular, classic platformer games.

Forward Ports for Sonic CD

When you are playing Sonic CD 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 intermittently 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

Don't have time? Use our Network Utilities software. It's the easiest way to both open and close ports in your router. Of you can do it manually if you want.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Sonic CD Require

The specific ports for Sonic CD are as follows:

Sonic CD - PC

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Sonic CD - Playstation 3

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

Sonic CD - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

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

That's all it takes to forward your ports. For more on how to port forward, check out our list of games and applications.

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