How to set up a router's port forwarding for a nintendo switch console

&quot;Within the port range, enter the starting port and the ending port to forward. For the Nintendo Switch console, this is ports 1 through 65535.&quot;<p>How on earth can someone seriously have this as a requirement?

I know this is posted to look shocking, but this isn&#x27;t something that consumers need to do. This is probably some random old article buried in the support wiki that they don&#x27;t actually use.<p>I&#x27;ve had a Switch since launch day (~5 years ago) and have played online in numerous locations and with many internet configurations. Nothing about its online services requires port forwarding or any kind of custom network configuration.

Back in the PS3 days, I had to do some stuff like this when I disabled UPnP on my router. Random games would just bomb out when I tried to connect to their online multiplayer components and throw cryptic error messages. Then I&#x27;d spend time googling what ports the specific game was trying to use and opening them up on the router.<p>Luckily I haven&#x27;t had any such problems with the PS4 so far. UPnP has been off on my router since day 1 of getting it and the PS4 seems fine. I&#x27;ve only had a Switch for a little while (haven&#x27;t really ventured online yet except to the e-shop); I really hope that&#x27;s not something I&#x27;ll have to start doing again.

Also worth mentioning that the Switch doesn&#x27;t support IPv6 so if you&#x27;re behind CG-NAT or have more than 1 console on your network (or want other services to use some of those ports), you&#x27;re out of luck.

&gt; Within the port range, enter the starting port and the ending port to forward. For the Nintendo Switch console, this is ports 1 through 65535.<p>&gt; Set the protocol as UDP.<p>Yeah, that&#x27;s gonna be a hard pass from here.<p>no uPnP&#x2F;NAT-PMP, and despite keeping gaming consoles on their own VLAN they will not have ports opened.<p>pfSense and NextDNS takes care of keeping the devices in check on the inside.

Online play &quot;works&quot; with &quot;just&quot; 45000-65535 open. Probably fewer.

but but.. what about the other services I wanna put on the Internet?