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For a better experience, you may need to open your router’s ports while playing Empires. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can help stabilize your network connection and even make it faster. Routers weren’t designed to allow incoming network requests, but some games can benefit from an incoming connection being forwarded through the router. This guide explains how to port forward Empires.
Requirements to Port Forward Empires
Just before you begin with the process of port forwarding, make sure you have the following things:
- Downloaded and installed the Empires server.
- The IP address of your router.
- The IP address of your gaming device.
TCP and UDP ports of Empires for your gaming device as mentioned in the section below.
How to Port Forward Empires with PureVPN Easily
Bid farewell to the complications of manual setup – our port forwarding add-on is designed to streamline your experience without requiring technical know-how.
Let’s explore how it effortlessly improves your port forwarding configuration.
- Sign up for PureVPN, add Port Forwarding to your plan, and complete the payment.
- Download and install the PureVPN app, launch it, and log in using your credentials.
- Access the PureVPN Member Area, go to Subscriptions and click Configure next to Port Forwarding.
- Choose Enable specific ports, enter the ports you want to open, and click the Apply Settings button.
- Open the PureVPN app, connect to a port forwarding-supported server, and you are good to go!
Step-by-step guide on how to port forward Empires
Now that you have the above details noted down, you can move to the next stage of Empires port forwarding:
- On your web browser address bar, type your router’s IP Address/Default Gateway.
- Log in with your router’s credentials (username and password) to view your router’s firmware settings.
- Navigate to the port forwarding section of your router.
- Click on Port Forwarding.
- Enter the IP address of your gaming device in your router in the correct box.
- Put the TCP and UDP ports of the Empires server in the boxes in your router. The default Empires port number is 6500. And then click the apply button.
- And you’re done. Restart your router to let the changes take effect.
- Once your changes take effect, now you can host an Empires server and let your friends connect to it as well. To let them connect to it, you need to provide them with the hostname you are using, along with the port number. For example, ‘hostname.domain.com:25565’.
Empires ports needed to run
To play Empires online and create a server without any interruptions, you’ll have to allow access to certain ports on your firewall. The default Empires ports are:
| TCP Port: | 6500, 28900, 29900-29901, 33335 |
| UDP Port: | 13139, 27900, 33321 |
Quickly and safely open ports using PureVPN
Opening a port shouldn’t be complicated. With the Port Forwarding add-on, it’s as simple as 1, 2, and 3!
Ports to forward on devices
Ports to run on PC:
| TCP Port: | 6500, 28900, 29900-29901, 33335 |
| UDP Port: | 13139, 27900, 33321 |
How to open ports behind CGNAT
What if your ISP performs CGNAT? Most ISPs perform CGNAT (Carrier-grade Network Address Translation) to conserve bandwidth and assign a single IP address to multiple users connected to the same internet network. However, CGNAT makes it difficult for you to open ports on the router.
To get around the CGNAT issue, you can use the Port Forwarding add-on to bypass this problem and port forward routers without hassle.
Here’s more information on how to use PureVPN’s Port Forwarding add-on and bypass CGNAT in a few clicks.
PureVPN’s Port Forwarding Add-on
A secure way to open all ports
To most people, port forwarding is quite a demanding task. For starters, every router has a different console, which often makes it difficult to navigate to specific settings.
Secondly, you won’t always be able to open Empires ports on your router if your ISP restricts the ports. Yes, you heard that right! ISPs are notorious for blocking ports due to security reasons. If ISP isn’t the reason behind a blocked port, then perhaps it could be your operating system’s firewall.
Well, you can eliminate all these problems and enjoy smooth online gaming on all your desired systems with PureVPN’s Port Forwarding add-on. Through the Port Forwarding add-on, you can allow all ports, disallow all ports, and allow specific ports.
Frequently Asked Questions
It may sound daunting, but you can easily set up a port forward in your router by following these safety measures: using a firewall, having a strong password on the device that you are forwarding ports to, and only forwarding ports for trustworthy applications.
Port forwarding allows your computer to receive signals quicker by redirecting them along specific electronic paths. This results in much faster speeds for gaming or downloads.
