How to Forward Ports in Your Router for Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection

Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection is an Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, and Compilation game published by Limited Run Games released in 2023.

When you play Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection you will experience the following styles of play.

• Action games are focused on physical challenges such as jumping over obstacles, climbing ladders, and shooting enemies. Reflexes play a large part in action game play.
• Adventure games are very heavily story driven. You are usually the main character and are the one who discovers the true plot as the game progresses.
• In a puzzle type game the player solves puzzles that may be either logic, patters, words, or numbers. Puzzle games sometimes use a timer to create a sense of pressure to solve the puzzle faster.
• Platform games are usually action games that require the player to hop from one platform to another, usually in some sort of acrobatic way. They are good for people with fast reflexes. They can come in short and long story varieties. Typical platform games are Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog.
• A game compilation is a collection of smaller games usually from the same manufacturer. Lately game compilations have been composed of older arcade style games released in a single package.

When you are playing Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection 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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Have you considered using a VPN instead of forwarding a port? For most users, a VPN is a much simpler and more secure choice than forwarding a port.

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

• The IP address of your router.
• The IP address of the device that the game will play on: either your computer or your console.
• The TCP and UDP ports to forward.

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.

Quickly get your ports forwarded using Network Utilities. Then when you are done you can just as easily close your ports back down to keep your network as secure as possible. You can also do it manually.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

• Start by logging in to your router.
• Locate your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the correct box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the corresponding boxes in your router.
• On occasion you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The incoming ports that need to be forwarded for Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection are as follows:

Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection - Playstation 4

• TCP: 3478-3480
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection - Playstation 5

• TCP: 3478-3480
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection - Switch

• TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
• UDP: 1024-65535

We have guides that are custom tailored for Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection that will show you the required incoming ports.

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection - Playstation 4
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection - Playstation 5
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection - Switch

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.