Ports 5228 and 5229 and 5230 · TCP

Ports 5228 and 5229 and 5230: Google push messaging

Google's push messaging (Firebase Cloud Messaging), which delivers notifications to Chrome and Android.

Protocol
TCP
On Windows
Not part of Windows; installed software uses it
Risk if open to the internet
Low

Seeing it on your PC

Chrome holding a connection to a Google address on 5228 is waiting for web push notifications.

Should you block it?

Normal outgoing. Blocking it delays or stops notifications.

Check it on your PC

Run this in PowerShell to see what is using port 5228 right now, and which program owns it:

Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 5228 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object LocalAddress,LocalPort,RemoteAddress,RemotePort,State,@{n='Process';e={(Get-Process -Id $_.OwningProcess -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).ProcessName}}

No output means nothing is using the port at the moment. For every connection at once, paste netstat -ano into the netstat explainer.