Create a Port Forward for Call of Duty: Black Ops III in your Router

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August 27, 2020 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is Activision's First-Person, Shooter, and Action game released in 2015.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III game cover artwork
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Ports To Forward for Call of Duty: Black Ops III

The required ports that need to be forwarded for Call of Duty: Black Ops III are as follows:

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Xbox One

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074-3075, 3544, 4500

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Playstation 3

  • TCP: 3074, 3478-3480, 5223, 8080
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3658, 5223

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Steam

  • TCP: 3074, 27014-27050
  • UDP: 3074, 3478, 4379-4380, 27000-27031, 27036

We have guides that are custom tailored for Call of Duty: Black Ops III that will show you the required ports that need to be forwarded.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III has the following genres of gameplay.

Port Forward Call of Duty: Black Ops III

When you are playing Call of Duty: Black Ops III 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 navigate to 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

Don't have time? Use our Network Utilities software. It's the easiest way to both open and close ports in your router. Of you can do it manually if you want.

The normal process for forwarding a port is:

That's all it takes to forward your ports. For more on how to port forward, check out our list of games and applications.

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