ASUS Router Port Forwarding Guide for Gamers

do you want to improve your video streaming and gaming experience while reducing lag and latency on your gaming console and or PC of course you do hey hey what's up Mike this is guys welcome back to the channel today I'm going to show you how to port forward on an ASUS router in the example we're going to use today is we're going to port forward a PlayStation 5. now this works also with Xbox and many other gaming consoles as well as a PC so what exactly is port forwarding port forwarding opens a specific port on your router which is then forwarded to the IP address of the device that you want to receive the traffic from and by port forwarding this will give you net type 2 on your PlayStation and NAT type open on your Xbox and these NAT Types are fantastic for gaming and streaming achieving NAT type 1 on your PlayStation 5 can be done by plugging your PS5 directly into the modem however that's a huge security risk because there is no firewall to protect your PS5 from hackers or bad guys and to be honest NAT type 2 is all you need for an outstanding game experience so there are a few things you're going to need when you're port forwarding the first thing you're going to need is the IP address of the device and for us it's the PlayStation 5. the IP address of your device needs to be a static IP address which means it's a permanent and fixed IP address to set a static IP address you will need to choose an IP address outside of the DHCP server range and routers always start the DHCP pool range with the IP pool starting address with the last octet at 2. in the ending IP pool address with the last octet at 254. we have 253 available IP addresses most homes only need a fraction of these IP addresses so we can free up some IP addresses for static IPS by changing the DHCP pool range and this is how you do it we'll change our DHCP pool range from 192.168.1.8 through 192.168.1.247 this freezes is at 14 IP addresses for static IPS 7 on the front end and seven on the back end so change the pool of IP addresses and hit apply so the reason we use static IP addresses outside the DHCP server range is to avoid IP address conflicts these IP address conflicts occur when two devices share the same IP address so if we chose an IP address inside the DHCP server range there's a good chance when DHCP hands out the IP addresses that will have two devices with the same IP address and this is a networking disaster you must avoid our IP address is 192.168.1.2 and we set up a static IP address and if you're not familiar with setting up a static IP address let me show you how so once you log into the PS5 go to settings then network settings next thing you want to do is add a new internet connection then go to the advanced settings and here we'll make all the changes first thing you want to do is turn off automatic and set it to manual and here you'll put in your static IP address for us is one 192.168.1.2 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 default gateway should be 192.168.1.1 this is the same as the IP address of your router admin page under DNS you can leave it blank or use the DNS server listed in your router settings we use our pie hole DNS for primary and cloudflare per secondary in the other two settings leave them alone okay now that we set the DHCP range and now you have a static IP address save all the changes now it's time to port forward our PS5 now go back into your ASUS router and go into the WAN settings and then look for port forwarding we're going to add some numbers and you can simply copy these down and I'll explain everything in detail so go to add profile then service name you can type in whatever you want we'll do ps51 protocol both external ports three four seven eight comma three four seven nine and this is the IPA address of your device which is our PlayStation 5. hit OK and we'll add a profile again and we'll do ps52 same IP address hit OK and just keep following what I'm doing here one thing you won't have to worry about is internal port or Source IP so this port forwarding setup is pretty easy once you add all your ports you're going to reboot your router and you also want to reboot your PS5 at the same time and this is the same for Xbox and Nintendo switch however the numbers are different for the port forwarding just do a simple internet search for Xbox 40 numbers or Nintendo switch Port 40 numbers and just a heads up if you have net type 3 on your PS5 this will change it to net type 2 for sure you can also turn on universal plug and play and just a heads up I've enabled universal plug and play on my router and it did not change my NAT type I'm still NAT type 2. however if you have net type 3 you need to port forward so that's how you port forward an ASUS router so guys remember like share subscribe comment and for God's sakes hit the Bell icon and I'll see you next video real soon peace