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= Welcome to PortWiki =

PortWiki is a wiki-style networking resource site. It provides an index of which ports are used in internet applications and games, port forwarding tutorials on how you can configure your router and firewall, guides to creating your own application or game servers and finally a rich database of all 65534 TCP and UDP Ports and their functions.

How Can I Utilize PortWiki?
When you use an internet application or game, a request goes through a specific internet 'port'. Depending on it it's purpose, for example basic web browsing works through TCP port number 80, while sending emails works through TCP port number 25, although you may have never heard of this concept before it is happening right as you're viewing this website.

To prevent un-authorized traffic from passing from the outside world into your computer, a program or application called a 'Firewall' monitors all ports detecting any improper use. However, the firewall does not know every good from bad message that is being sent through a port. Therefore this can cause problems when using internet application or games and thus where Portwiki comes in handy. Portwiki will develop to have an index of all the TCP and UDP ports used by different applications and games. This means network administrators or home users can find out which ports they need to 'allow' in order to receive or send the proper information. This is known as port forwarding.

How Can I Contribute?
The best thing about PortWiki is that you are able to contribute; I've simplified the process to an extent that it only requires the entry of core details about an application, game, port, router or file and the rest of the article is formatted for you. To begin select the appropriate heading on the left navigation bar. For example if you would like to add an Application choose 'Applications' then follow the instructions provided up the top of the page that follows.