SPWAW port number for Online play (TCP port 7002)
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:07 pm
SPWAW uses the TCP port 7002 for online play. So if you are hosting a game you need to make sure that port is open on your firewall / router.
Technical information for those who want to know how I found out the port number:
To find out what port SPWAW uses I started the game and chose to host. Then I opened the windows task manager and enabled the option to show the PID field. This gave me the PID number for Mech.exe. Then I went to the command promt and typed in the command "netstat -ano". That gave me a list of all listenig ports on the computer with their PID numbers. Then I scrolled the list until I found the PID number that matched mech.exe and there was the port number 7002.
Technical information for those who want to know how I found out the port number:
To find out what port SPWAW uses I started the game and chose to host. Then I opened the windows task manager and enabled the option to show the PID field. This gave me the PID number for Mech.exe. Then I went to the command promt and typed in the command "netstat -ano". That gave me a list of all listenig ports on the computer with their PID numbers. Then I scrolled the list until I found the PID number that matched mech.exe and there was the port number 7002.