WoW connection tests?

KDR_11k

Is there a way to test whether WoW could connect? I'm not going to shell out 45 Euros for a game when I don't know whether it will even work and I have no idea how restrictive this proxy actually is so I'm not sure whether I could get it to connect.

I know for sure that nothing that doesn't take proxy settings can connect and that I cannot reconfigure the firewall or NAT. I cannot use UT2004, C&C Generals, Arena Wars or Doom 3 for online play but none of them support proxies so that's fairly predictable. ICQ worked once but never again after that. Bit Torrent and stuff like that are completely impossible.

Justin Meisse

My guess is that it will not work since it doesn't have any network settings that you can change. I had a proxy server set up a while back to share my dialup connection and I used a program called sockscap in order to play Ultima Online, I was running a SOCKS5 proxy server so it worked fine, I have no idea if it will work with yours.

KDR_11k

Why do games never include network settings when even my freaking AV package does? Proxies can't be that rare!

bearkub

Well, if BitTorrent is out of the question, you may as well not bother. The updates are propogated via a BitTorrent interface and run at a lower download speed if you don't have the proper ports open (obviously...).

Personal opinion on the matter, of course...

KDR_11k

I'm hard-limited to 30k/sec anyway so I doubt the lack of BT will make it that much worse.

Justin Meisse

why are you behind a proxy? are you at school or trying to play from work?

KDR_11k

I'm at home. The student homes run through the university network.

BTW, Steam won't connect, either. Good bye Half-Life 2, you won't be missed. Let's just hope online actiavtion doesn't take off before I'm out of this home.

Marine

you'll need these ports open to be able to play
3724
6112 (Blizzard Downloader)
6881-6999 (Blizzard Downloader)

you can probably get away with ignoring the downloader ports, the patches usually end up on fileplanet and the likes pretty quick.

KDR_11k

Hm, can I test somewhere which ports are open? The blocking rules are completely undocumented but it seems I can't even get my email via POP3...

Toomas

https://www.grc.com/x/portprobe=3724

maybe that will help, i get Stealth status for this port and can play fine.

poopinmymouth

I love how the status bar is labeled "probing your port" in the above link. Made me chuckle anyway.

KDR_11k

Come on, it's not like computer scientists put any thought into sexual conotations of their vocabulary. Hell, some countries call 3.5" floppies "stiffies" because they're not floppy. Never mind what Australians think about the word "root". There's also a trojan called back orifice.

EDIT: Just remembered the quote "Only a programmer would let his friends touch his private parts" (referring to C++ allowing classes considered friends to access a class's private and protected member functions and variables). Teehee, I said "member".

There's loads more like that.

Toomas: That's for incoming connections, when you're behind a NAT all incoming connections are discarded, anyway.

Toomas

I am behind NAT. I can play all online games, only cant host unless i open the right port.