How to Port Forward Afrika

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

Afrika is JP Sony Computer Entertainment's Simulation game with a release date in 2008.

Afrika is a simulation game. In a simulation game the main goal is to simulate a real life situation either for entertainment or education. There are many different types of simulation games such as flying, sports, driving, and farming. One of the earliest simulation games was SimCity which is considered a social simulation game.

How to Port Forward Afrika

When you are playing Afrika 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 on occasion 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 click the links to get to 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 usually:

Ports Required for Afrika

The necessary ports that need to be forwarded for Afrika are as follows:

Afrika - Playstation 3

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

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

That's all it takes to get your ports open. Don't forget to check out our growing list of games and programs.

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