Port Forwarding for FIFA 22

FIFA 22 is a Sports and Simulation game published by Electronic Arts released in 2021.

FIFA 22 has the following styles of play.

• Sports games simulate a variety of sports including football, baseball, basketball, track and field, and combat sports. They tend to be very competitive. Some are realistically modeled after their real world counterparts while others are satirical with a stronger emphasis on entertainment. Many sports games feature players from the real world in them.
• In a simulation game the primary goal is to simulate a real life situation either for education or entertainment. Simulation games have a huge vareity of types including sports, driving, flying, and dating. Some of the most popular sims of all time are SimCity and Madden NFL.

When you are playing FIFA 22 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.

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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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Once you've set up your NordVPN account on multiple computers and enabled Meshnet, you can seamlessly access all of your devices as if they were on the same network. You don't even have to log in to your router. It's very simple.

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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 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.

An easy way to do this is use our Network Utilities software. It can open your ports with just a few clicks. Then when you are done you can just was quickly close your ports again. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

• Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
• 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 corresponding boxes in your router.
• On occasion you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The specific ports for FIFA 22 are as follows:

FIFA 22 - PC

• TCP: 3569, 8080, 9946, 9988, 10000-20000, 42124
• UDP: 3659, 9000-9999

FIFA 22 - Steam

• TCP: 3569, 8080, 9946, 9988, 10000-20000, 27015, 27036, 42124
• UDP: 3659, 9000-9999, 27015, 27031-27036

FIFA 22 - Playstation 4

• TCP: 1935, 3478-3480, 3659, 10000-10099, 42127
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3659, 6000

FIFA 22 - Playstation 5

• TCP: 1935, 3478-3480, 3659, 10000-10099, 42127
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3659, 6000

FIFA 22 - Switch

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

FIFA 22 - Xbox One

• TCP: 3074, 3659
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 3659, 4500

FIFA 22 - Xbox Series X

• TCP: 3074, 3659
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 3659, 4500

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and FIFA 22 simply follow one of these links:

• FIFA 22 - PC
• FIFA 22 - Steam
• FIFA 22 - Playstation 4
• FIFA 22 - Playstation 5
• FIFA 22 - Switch
• FIFA 22 - Xbox One
• FIFA 22 - Xbox Series X

When you are done following those steps your ports will be open. Do you need more games or programs forwarded? Check out our games and programs list.