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My School Blocked WOW HELP ME PLEASE!
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MasterOfDisguise
As nice as it would be to play WoW at school, education happens to be more important.
Now if you're at a college, that's something you should probably take up with the administrators.
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Wanderingfox
They aren't going to unblock the ports just for you. You're out of luck I'm afraid.
Bwah?
After having spent 2 years working as a tier2 tech for a rather popular university's residential network support staff, I can say that most campus's
WILL
open ports for you if you ask and can provide a reason. If you're living on campus, and using a dorm internet connection, they should be understanding enough to unblock the ports required to play wow (3724, 6112, and 6881-6999). If they seem hesitant, and other online services (such as say steam) work fine, simply point out that they're discriminating against internet traffic which is against the net neutrality act (Your school is effectively your ISP in this regard).
While it's true that they can close any port they want, they usually also have to supply just cause to do so, and quite frankly wow's bandwidth (something like 4gb a month per person if it's running 24/7) is extremely small (it's something like 5-10 kb/s) so their only real claim can be as a security risk, but they can't leverage that if they allow other common game ports as well.
In short, try walking down to your campus's network admin office (may or may not be the residential network office depending on how your school is layed out), and nicely asking that they turn on at least port 3724.
edit:
More than likely what happened is that they made a change of network policy to prevent their border firewalls from dynamically opening ports for traffic that is originating from inside. While this is a very good move for security reasons, it may also be the reason why you suddenly can't get go through the wow port anymore. More than likely a nice civil chat with the person in charge of said firewall will get it resolved.
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mpmagi
You'll need two programs, SOCKScap and Your Freedom.
Follow the instructions here:
http://www.your-freedom.net/index.php?id=90
make sure you use their link for downloading sockscap.
It works.
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