<story><title>How to Set Up a Router&apos;s Port Forwarding for a Nintendo Switch Console</title><url>https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22272/~/how-to-set-up-a-routers-port-forwarding-for-a-nintendo-switch-console</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ZiiS</author><text>If they need all your incoming traffic they should probably have called it a &amp;quot;router&amp;quot; not a &amp;quot;switch&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Set Up a Router&apos;s Port Forwarding for a Nintendo Switch Console</title><url>https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22272/~/how-to-set-up-a-routers-port-forwarding-for-a-nintendo-switch-console</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>misnome</author><text>Apparently you only _need_ to forward 45000~65535: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;NintendoSwitch&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6qjhjy&amp;#x2F;i_have_figured_out_the_actual_range_of_ports_to&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;NintendoSwitch&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6qjhjy&amp;#x2F;i_ha...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I went through this when setting up the switch to talk to someone behind heavy NAT over the holidays. 45000+ worked for me.&lt;p&gt;....which makes this even more ridiculous if it never uses them.</text></comment>