Create a Port Forward for Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light in your Router

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October 22, 2020 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light is a Tactical, Role-Playing, and Strategy game published by Nintendo released in 2020.

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Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light offers the following styles of gameplay.

How to Port Forward Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light

When you are playing Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light 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

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 usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports To Forward for Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light

The ports that need to be forwarded in your router for Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light are as follows:

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light - 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 Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light simply follow one of these links:

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