Nintendo Switch Port Forwarding Guide

Is your Nintendo Switch not letting you play your favorite games online? Are you getting NAT type error on your Switch whenever you try to play online?

You can get around those pesky Switch problems just like that by using our Nintendo Switch port forwarding guide. You can try our Port Forwarding add-on with PureVPN now!

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Does Port Forwarding Do Any Wonders?

As a hardcore gamer, you wouldn’t ever want anything getting in your way and ruining your game. You would feel most frustrated when you’ve planned a binge-gaming session with your friends.

Apart from the power outage, which is beyond your control, there are some other problems that may make you go crazy while playing games online.

For instance, your connection gets frozen abruptly in the middle of the game. Or, your connection doesn’t stabilize at all, no matter what settings you do.

In fact, you may not be able to hook to the internet at all, while all your friends wait for you to get connected to the server.

You can shoo away all these problems – or at least most of them, by forwarding ports. Port Forwarding creates a freeway to external devices so they can easily communicate with devices on a private network.

So, yes. Port forwarding can really do wonders, especially for gamers.

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Why is Nintendo Switch Port Forwarding Guide For You?

You may be looking for a Nintendo Switch port forwarding guide for many reasons.

You want to improve your NAT type from D to B or A
Nintendo Switch doesn’t support UPnP, and so you have to do it manually
You are getting NAT Type whenever you try to go online with your Switch
You are frequently getting booted such as while playing Mario Kart

Nintendo Switch Ports

Port forwarding works well only when you know the ports your console is allowed to use. In the case of Nintendo Switch ports, you can use anywhere from 45000-65535 UDP.

Keep in mind that the official website of Switch suggests users open ports from 1 to 65535. However, opening all the ports would mean complete exposure of your console to the internet, which is, of course, dangerous.

Therefore, never open all the ports for anything as it will expose your device to the threats lurking on the Internet.

How to Setup Port Forwarding for Nintendo Switch Ports in Canada

Does the Nintendo Switch Port Forwarding guide make you go hazy? Well, the steps above may let you forward ports for your Switch, but at the cost of manual labor.

If you wish to skip on the laborious steps and forward ports in a click instead, you need PureVPN’s Port Forwarding add-on.

IP Address
Subnet Mask
Gateway

Once you have jotted down these details, proceed to the following guide:

Step #1 Nintendo Switch Settings

Switch on your Nintendo Switch console
Go to Network Connection Settings and then to Advanced Settings
Select Manual, written against IP Address Settings
Now, select the IP Address and press B on your console as it will erase the current IP address
Now, enter the IP address you noted earlier of your device but add 20 in the last digit. For instance, if the last digit says 9, it will become 29
Click OK
Now, select the Subnet Mask and press B to erase the current Subnet setting
Enter the Subnet Mask you noted earlier and click OK
Select the Gateway and press B to delete the existing Gateway
Enter the default Gateway and click OK to proceed

Step #2 Router Settings

Open your router’s dashboard via your PC or laptop
Navigate to the Port Forwarding settings which you can easily find on your router with a Google search
Enter the application name. You can label it as Nintendo Switch
Enter the Nintendo Switch ports range- 45000-65535 UDP
Select UDP protocol
Enter the IP address that you have used for your Nintendo Switch settings
Enable the option to activate it
Save changes and you are done

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