How to Port Forward Blast Factor

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

Blast Factor is a Shooter game published by Bluepoint Games released in 2006.

Since Blast Factor is a shooter you can expect fast paced action that challenges your reflexes while playing it. Shooter style games are almost always a very fast action style game that is based on testing the players reaction time. Most of the time the player has their weapon held out on screen that is the primary means of targeting other players and enemies. Single player shooters usually have a short story mode based on finding ammo and guns, while multiplayer shooters might have some amount of player advancement over time. Halo and Call of Duty are popular shooters.

Port Forward Blast Factor

When you are playing Blast Factor 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 locate your Router's IP Address

The easiest way to navigate to 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

To easily and quickly get your ports forwarded use the Network Utilities software. Network Utilities allows you to forward ports only when you need them, and then close them again when you are done. This makes keeping your network more secure much easier. You can also do it by hand.

The normal process for forwarding a port is:

Ports To Forward for Blast Factor

The required ports that need to be forwarded for Blast Factor are as follows:

Blast Factor - Playstation 3

  • TCP: 5223
  • UDP: 5223, 3478, 3479, 3658

We have guides that are custom tailored for Blast Factor that will show you the incoming ports that need to be forwarded.

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