Age of Mythology: Network Ports Required for Multiplayer Game

This article discusses the ports that you must have to play Microsoft Age of Mythology as a multiplayer game through a firewall, a proxy server, a router, Network Address Translation (NAT), or Internet Connection Sharing.

Microsoft Windows firewall

With Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you do not have to manually create port exceptions in the firewall. You may now create exceptions for the program itself.

To do this, follow these steps.

Note Never open a port for a program that you do not recognize.

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Security Center.
3. Click Windows Firewall.
4. Click the Exceptions tab.
5. Click Add Program.
6. Click Browse.
7. Locate the game's executable files, and then click Open. By default, the game is installed in one of the following locations:
   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe
   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aomx.exe
   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\autopatcher.exe
   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\autopatcherx.exe
8. Click OK two times.

For additional information about how to use the Windows firewall, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: If you are not using the Windows firewall, you may still have to know the ports that are used by the game when you configure your network.

Port listing

To verify that these ports are open or to open these ports, contact your network administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).

If you are the administrator of the network, consult the documentation provided with your networking software to determine the steps to open these ports.

The following UDP and TCP ports must be open to start multiplayer games:

Connection to Ensemble Studios Online: 80 TCP, 2300 UDP, 28800-28805 TCP

When a multiplayer game is in session, Age of Mythology uses the DirectPlay ports shown in the following table.