How to Set Up a Router's Port Forwarding for a Nintendo Switch Console

Re:How to Set Up a Router's Port Forwarding for a Nintendo S... by the_mitsuhiko on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:28AM (#29919521)

If it supports UPnP why do the docs not say: turn on UPnP? If you search for UPnP in the docs, you get exactly zero results back.

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Re:How to Set Up a Router's Port Forwarding for a Nintendo S... by Macha on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:27AM (#29920018)

I don't think anybody here (including me) claims these are _good_ docs.

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Re:How to Set Up a Router's Port Forwarding for a Nintendo S... by the_mitsuhiko on Thursday January 13, 2022 @08:03AM (#29920303)

Is there any evidence that the Switch supports UPnP? Because some quick googling did not suggest it does.

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Re:How to Set Up a Router's Port Forwarding for a Nintendo S... by TingPing on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:05AM (#29931113)

My router has never seen the switch use upnp.

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Re:How to Set Up a Router's Port Forwarding for a Nintendo S... by SkyPuncher on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:08PM (#29923339)

IMO, because they're trying to keep it simple.

Most readers of HN will understand (or at least understand the goal of) the checklist for debugging network issues.

Skipping straight to Port Forwarding eliminates any issues on whether UPnP is actually working correctly. Growing up, some of my friends had routers struggled to handle UPnP correctly. If I knew they were the only one needing port forwarding, I'd simply turn that on for them instead of trying to figure out if UPnP was actually working correctly.

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