How to Create a Port Forward in Your Router for Icewind Dale

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 1 minutes

Icewind Dale is Interplay Entertainment's Role-Playing game with a release date in 2000.

Icewind Dale is a roleplaying game, or simply RPG. Role-Playing Games give you many, many hours of game play where you can explore a sometimes huge new world through the eyes of your own character. They are usually the longest style of game with the most detailed story lines. Popular RPG titles include Skyrim, World of Warcraft, and Fallout.

How to Port Forward Icewind Dale

When you are playing Icewind Dale 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

Our Network Utilities software makes port forwarding a breeze. You can be done in just a few minutes.

The normal process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Icewind Dale Require

The specific ports for Icewind Dale are as follows:

Icewind Dale - PC

  • TCP: 2300-2399, 47624
  • UDP: 2300-2399, 47624

We have guides that are custom tailored for Icewind Dale that will show you the ports that need to be forwarded.

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want more? Check out our growing list of games and applications.

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