Firewall problem

[nihil]

Well, I guess you all have ports 3724 and 6112 open on your local machines?

It doesn't sound like a whitelist/blacklist problem, as this should just block the whole site, not just the login part?

This sort of points to some sort of problem between WOW and your school server/network?

I just have this kind of hunch that maybe there is a router there in the school system that is causing the problem?

From what I saw of the WOW website they don't "not support proxies".......... they just don't offer technical support for them? or did I get that wrong? That would seem to "let them off the hook" so to speak?

As you guys can access other games, it is reasonable to suppose that your school has no objections to them on principle........... so blocking WOW has to be some sort of error, rather than intentional?

I would very politely ( ) ask your admin to check ports 3724 and 6112 through the school system? You can block ports in the firewall, possibly in router software and also in a modern security suite? He may have missed one?

Once again, please let me emphasise that this is a mixture of pure guesswork and inductive/deductive logic this really isn't my area of expertise, so you are going to have a lot of the legwork yourselves guys

[dantesheaven]

Heh, no it's absolutely not a problem with the school not wanting us to game, the network admin is actually trying to help us with the problem, but he persists that no ports are blocked at all, only filtered through firewall software for malicious content detection. Another odd thing, the game implements a weekly patch that needs to be downloaded that updates the software, and you have to download the patch downloader weekly, but this download will only move 1% at a time, you log in, it downloads 1%, then stops, you reconnect, and then it goes to 2%, etc. Off campus this doesn't happen.

[br_fusion]

Maybe the WoW servers detect duplicate connecting IPs and deny the connection? Back when I was in the dorm duplicate IPs were common since everyone was being Source NATed with the same public IP. This caused some fuss with Counter-Strike servers.

I'm not familar with how Blizzard runs things but I thought I would throw this idea into the mix.

[Godsrock37]

my lil bro and i can both be updating WOW at the same time and we would appear as the same external ip. we cant connect to the server at the same time because we share the account, but im sure if we had different accounts it wouldnt be an issue. maybe theres a cap on the number of wow accounts per ip? maybe one student got caught hacking/cheating and the ip and account were banned?

customer service?

[dantesheaven]

The school network assigns each individual pc a different ip, we have issues dl the patches as well.

[nihil]

Well, it sounds like something with your school network to me. You might try going to a specialist WoW forum, as someone else may have encountered the problem and found a fix.