Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege X

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege X

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Open NAT / Fix Connection Issues
By N0C1
This Guide provdies simple instructions to handle connectivity issues in Rainbow Six: Siege and other games.
Enabling UPnP will activate automatic port forwarding resolving connectivity issues by blocked ports.
Alternativly only Rainbow and Uplay specific ports can be forwarded.
   
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1. Problem
If you are playing Rainbow Six Siege (afterwards RSS) and experience issues like the one shown underneath this Guide might help you. In advance you should check your windows firewall und antivirus firewall settings for any restrictions assigned to RSS.

2. Open Command Shell
In this step we are going to open the Windows Command Shell.

Press "Win + R" and enter "cmd" without quotations.

3. Get Router IP
To get your Router IP insert "tracert google.com" without quotations.
Normally your Router ist the first one shown in the list, the second one normally is your modem.
4. Open Router Configuration
Open your Internet Browser. Type in the IP recieved in Step 3 - In my case it's 192.168.1.1- and press ENTER.

If prompted for Username and Password insert them accordingly to your Router Manual. If you have changed them you better remember them :)
If you lost it, a hard reset of the router can be done - Instructions in your router manual :)

The most used default combinations are (Format: USERNAME - PASSWORD):

Admin - admin
Admin - password
Admin - [LEAVE CLEAR!]
admin - admin
admin - password
admin - [LEAVE CLEAR!]

Afterward it should look a little like that (All manufacturers use diffrent GUI's):

5. Enable UPnP
This is different with every Router Modell.

Search the categories for UPnP.
Here it is NAT/QOS -> UPnP.

Often it is the same category (to see it you maybe have to go to advanced settings first) but can also be found under 'port triggering' or similiar sounding stuff.

Enable UPnP, apply and save the settings and you're done! This will enable automatic port forwarding on request of various games and applications. Note that you expose yourself to some risks by enabling UPnP. ( more[goo.gl] )

Alternativly you can enter those ports in the category 'Port Forwarding' to enable just the ports used by UPLAY and RSS.

Uplay PC:
TCP: 80, 443, 14000, 14008, 14020, 14021, 14022, 14023 and 14024.

Game Ports:
UDP: 3074 and 6015

8 Comments
N0C1  [author] 29 Dec, 2016 @ 11:22am 
First you assign a static IP for your PC within your network. ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/244314/how_to_forward_ports_on_your_router.html ) Afterwards it is pretty much the same as the tutorial above you just use the Port Forwarding Category in the last step. Gibe it a name, select ports (mentioned above) and enter your static IP. The hard but easier way for you sohuld be to create 11 rules. Each for one port.
Rawr 16 Dec, 2016 @ 7:41pm 
what is this port forwarding? and hiw exactly to do it? sorry i dont know stuff
N0C1  [author] 8 Sep, 2016 @ 3:33pm 
Glad if I could help :steamhappy:
Lennca99 8 Sep, 2016 @ 7:18am 
and thats my friends is a usefull guide...
󠀡󠀡 3 Feb, 2016 @ 9:15am 
UPnP is very unsecure.
Syr 2 Feb, 2016 @ 1:59pm 
I have a better fix: If everythiing works: start VPN with your mate ether using Tunngle or using Teamviewer or Hamachi. THen change under adapter settings ->ipv4->advanvec the metrik to 10. Then start the game and tadaaaa it works!
Antidote99 2 Feb, 2016 @ 1:24pm 
Danke freund! (not german)
&y 30 Jan, 2016 @ 7:15pm 
Another thing, if you have Hamachi, it messes with it too, so disable it if it's on.