Hey joedit, thanks for the reply my friend!
So in my windows defender, I just double checked right now and there are rules in place for both TCP and UDP.
In my router settings I have the ports forwarded with both UDP and TCP protocol.
Under the
https://check-host.net/ tool, I can check both TCP and UDP protocol to see if ports are open. The only ones not opening under TCP (but ARE open via udp) 7778/9080