Issues with multiplayer games (phasmophobia) dropping or disconnecting?

See if it's your firewall!!!

I discovered this with Phasmophobia which had been a paper cut for a while wherein i would get kicked with the error Disconnected:Exception

Out of sheer desperation I came across the idea of turning off my firewall by searching "firewall" and clicking on "firewall configuration" in settings

After doing so the issues vanished, so I googled "which ports for ufw does phasmophobia use?" used the command,

Sudo ufw allow xxxxx/TCP or /UDP

CMD Explanation
Sudo is the root user
UFW reffers to the firewall
allow allows it through
the rest is the port itself.

I then used this on all the ports mentioned.

I have since fully eliminated the issues and random disconnections, hope this is handy for someone else and lets you enjoy ghost hunting

applies to Phasmophobia but possibly other online multiplayer games where you get dropouts and random stuff happening.

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