Battlefield 4 Ports
Do anybody know which ports you need, to play Battlefield 4 online on PC?
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I'm always surprised this kind of information is found on the forums and not specified on an official website. Also, the information provided by EA_Bastian is not complete. A firewall uses two types of ports for traffic. Source and destination. To be able to successfully play the game, you will have to open both the source AND destination ports - which usually are not the same. My guess is that the ports specified by EA_Bastian is destination ports only.
Is there a way to get a full, official firewall port specification that clearly specifies which ports to open?
Not everyone use a D-Link home router which allows pretty much anything through..
Also, while I'm at it - an anti-virus exclusion list would also be of interest so I don't have to disable the anti-virus to be able to play..
If you want a AV exclusion, just add the .exe of the game (or entire game dir) to exclusions list of your AV active protection.
In case of Avast it is possible to set the exclusion on different actions (read, write, execute) or all of them without excluding
them from normal scheduled scans.
As for inbound and outbound, you normally would only need incoming. In most (normal) cases outbound traffic is alway possible. It is only
the traffic coming in you want to redirect or block. Alot of routers only have an incoming list aka forwarding. They have no
outbound settings. Also this forwarding option is only used to redirect specific traffic to a certain computer on your local
network like a web/ftp/mail server. Outgoing traffic only needs a gateway at least and it's out.
Regarding the data specified on official websites: http://help.ea.com/en/article/online-ports-for-battlefield-4/
