How To Open Ports in Your Router for Age of Empires IV

Age of Empires IV is a Real-Time and Strategy game published by Xbox Game Studios released in 2021.

Age of Empires IV includes the following styles of play.

• A real time strategy game tends to involve things like resource farming and management, as well as troop creation and construction of buildings. Warcraft and Starcraft are some of the most well known RTS style games.
• In a strategy game the player is required to use skillful thinking and a strong focus on planning ahead in order to achieve victory over their opponent. They can be either single player against bots or multiplayer against other players. They come in both turn-based and real-time versions, the former allowing each player a chance to complete their turn, the latter having a continuous running clock without stopping. Resource management and exploration are common themes in strategy games.

When you are playing Age of Empires IV 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.

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Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• The IP address of your network router.
• Your gaming machine's IP address.
• The TCP and UDP ports to forward.

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.

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

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

• Login to your router.
• Find your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the proper box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the matching boxes in your router.
• On occasion you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The connection ports that need to be forwarded for Age of Empires IV are as follows:

Age of Empires IV - PC

• TCP: 3478, 5222, 8888
• UDP: 3478, 5222, 9999

Age of Empires IV - Steam

• TCP: 3478, 5222, 8888, 27015, 27036
• UDP: 3478, 5222, 9999, 27015, 27031-27036

Age of Empires IV - Xbox One

• TCP: 3074, 3478, 5222, 8888
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3478, 3544, 4500, 5222, 9999

Age of Empires IV - Xbox Series X

• TCP: 3074, 3478, 5222, 8888
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3478, 3544, 4500, 5222, 9999

We have guides that are custom tailored for Age of Empires IV that will show you the connection ports.

• Age of Empires IV - PC
• Age of Empires IV - Steam
• Age of Empires IV - Xbox One
• Age of Empires IV - Xbox Series X

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