How to Port Forward Earth 2160

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

Earth 2160 is Zuxxez Entertainment, Deep Silver, Midway Games, TopWare Interactive's Real-Time and Strategy game with a release date in 2006.

Earth 2160 offers the following styles of play.

Port Forward Earth 2160

When you are playing Earth 2160 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 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 fastest way to both open and close ports in your router. Of you can do it manually if you want.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

Ports To Forward for Earth 2160

The ports that need to be forwarded for Earth 2160 are as follows:

Earth 2160 - PC

  • TCP:
  • UDP: 17771, 17172

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Earth 2160 simply follow one of these links:

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