How to port forward properly on the ee smart hub

[Dizcan37]

Hi,

I have been port forwarding on my ee smart hub route for my PS5 gaming. After I open a port I see an improvement in latency for 1 game in a lobby and then after the match ends and I enter a new lobby my latency returns to being terrible.

I wanted to check here to see if I'm port forwarding correctly.

What I do is: e.g  (internal 3478 : 3479) (external 3478:3479) ,then I specify udp or tcp, the ip address for my ps5 is also put in correctly.

Would be a big help to find out if I'm doing something incorrectly here,

Thx for your time,

[XRaySpeX]

What does ShieldsUP! report the status of your ports when you use its All Service Ports & also your opened ports with User-Specified Custom Port Probe ?

[Dizcan37]

For the custom port probe, it said 'closed' in blue, even though it was open on the route page. What does this mean?

[Dizcan37]

I should be more clear,

I entered a port I had opened on my router into the custom port probe scanner. The result was a blue box with 'closed' in it.

[XRaySpeX · Accepted solution]

What route page?

If the port says "CLOSED" & not "Stealth" it means to port has been port forwarded correctly but the server assigned to that port is not up & running.

I still ask do you really need to be port forwarding? Are you hosting a game server for others to connect to remotely unsolicited?

[Dizcan37]

Some games do not have dedicated servers, and picks a host from the players in the lobby.

[XRaySpeX]

Sorry, but you're not really answering my Qs. Whose computer is actually running the game, NM the person acting as host?

[CraigRob]

not it is not helpful your still not explaining the port configuration ie is the wan port and lan port need to be the same number or can it be different 

[XRaySpeX]

@Dizcan37 : I was never asked that Q, so obviously I never answered it!.

The External/Public/WAN port is usually the same as the Internal/Private/LAN port but could be diff. It's up to you running the server as to what External port you want to present to external users to access your server. The Internal port is determined by the coding &/or config of your server.