could anyone help me by giving a guide to which programs i need to do this and a step by step guide of how to actually configure these programs to allow me to connect to world of warcraft

Any help would be much appreciated

I'm dying here without WoW by the way I'm at Uni in england and am trapped behind a firewall blocking the ports for WoW and plenty of other things

Im using windows XP i have 2GB of RAM

thx for reading

Adam
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i have the same problem, im at Oakland University and i cant connect to WoW or CSS. HELP PLEASE!

Which ports does WOW use? Port forwarding sounds like what you need to do. We would need details of your router brand & model name & numbers. Plus the ports needed, though we might be able to research that. (Oh, and also which operating system you are using.)

What is CSS? Likewise, we'd need to know the ports required. Some of those games may need more than one port, particularly if they use voice for example.

i know this is a fairly old topic but im in need of the same help , im currently at uni and cannot get on wow, im quite computer literate and know my way around a computer im just not too big on networking , ive read about port forwarding may work for it but i have no clue at all, any help would be nice, but the port that you need for world of warcraft is 3724 TCP, once again any help would be great cheers

chris

Port 3724 I believe.

For port forwarding, first thing you must do is set up a static ip address: Setting up a Static ip Address

Then choose your router brand & model -> PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall click on the model -> click the skip this add at top right of next page -> choose World of Warcraft from the alphabetical list of purposes for port forwarding.

At university they may well have various ports blocked. Else they have a p2p shaper .. which might apply to games & sharing programs. It can either shape the bandwidth or totally block them. Such shapers can detect the type of protocol that is being used to communicate with other gamers/p2p sharers.

Schools, colleges and universities block WOW and CSS, because people like the above posters are addicted to them. You think coke and heroin are bad, think again.

The only simple way to bypass the firewalls is to get friendly with your campus IT administrator and I seriously doubt he will make an exception. It's quite simple. People choose WOW and CSS over the other duties. The school doesn't like that.

I know a guy, who was on the path to becoming a pro swimmer, maybe even the Olympics, until he got hooked on WOW. Now he's a busboy and doesn't do swimming at all.

You people should consider yourself blessed that they block them.

can this be detected by any of the uni admins do you know ?

and @ sleepless

i am fully aware of the addictiveness of wow, but not every body falls prey to this, i played wow while doing my GCSE's and my A Levels and it didnt affect the outcome at all, your quite right that alot of people are as you said but not all of them and to stereo type all people at university in the same way is a poor oversight on your behalf im afraid, i appreciate your concern and taking the time to reply tho

cheers

chris

One of the main reasons universities/schools block games like wow etc is such games use a lot of bandwidth which the schools are generally paying a lot of money for. Depends on their set up as to whether the network admins can detect exactly which terminals such games are being used at. However if they have such a system as I suggested earlier, this may give them a warning, upon which they might also be able to search the network for such programs if they felt the motivation/need.

yeah, ah ok , well cheers for the help ill try that out later on