My campus connection sucks.. best way to setup proxy @ home so I can play WC3 here? **AIM convo included**

LOLyourFace

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? I also heard that Battle.net uses UDP packet or something? So I also need to enable that @ my home PC.. how does all work? Could someone carefully walk me through?


[EDIT]
A fellow ATOTer was kind enough to offer help via AIM but he ended up being stomped... The following are the conversation which describes the symptom.

Him: hey
Him: are you using a router?
Me: ok
Him: and you want to host a game or something?
Me: let me just tell u my setup
Me: there's One PC @ Home
Me: using AT&T Broadband cable
v: which is my bro's PC
Me: and im @ my dorm
Me: there's no router.. because there's no need for one PC.. just the cable modem
Him: uh huh
Me: and my PC is @ my campus
Me: which im using now
Me: and it seems i can't play on bnet
Me: or play at extreme lag
Me: although i can surf the net fine
Me: and im wondering if it's even possible to play warcraft 3 from my pc
Me: through proxy server or something.. i don't know much
Him: so your War3 lags on b.net?
Me: yes
Me: i Can connect fine
Him: but your internet is perfectly fine?
Me: yup
Him: does the conneciton lag?
Me: surfing is pretty fine using IE
Me: but playing Games
Me: is horrendous
Him: but you can get in the game?
Me: yup. i can play fine, i can join/create games fine
Me: just that it's extremely slow
Me: which end up leading to disconnection
Me: but in terms of functionality, it works.
Me: it's the speed.. or lack there of.
Him: hmmm
Him: wierd
Him: must be something your school is doing
Him: dont know what you can do about that other than talking toyour school network
Him: but thers is a program
Me: well. i haven't created any games yet because i just play ladder
Me: which is simply joining
Him: that lets you play lan games not on b.net
Me: i dunno anyone personally
Me: it's the bnet i want :-(
Me: so i guess u can't help me huh
Him: id otn think there is a way
Him: its yoru school
Him: does it happen for anyone else int he dorms you know?
Me: yea everyone complains
Me: because it also happens with AIM
Me: AIM is excruciatingly slow
Me: and im using it now
Me: so is KaZaA
Me: but i don't care for those. AIM works ok because it's just chatting and it does work.. despite the speed
Me: it's War3 i want.
Him: dont think theres any way to get aroudn it
Him: your school seems to be capping something
Him: maybe your upload bandwith
Me: yea
Him: i mean if you ahve other ppl in the drom room playing
Him: you can try playing against them on battle.net
Him: and see if it lags
Me: maybe im saying somethign wrong
Me: ugh
Him: nothing your school just seems to be restricitng some stuff
Him: whats yoru school?
Him: they might have some info on thier network page
Me: i mean, isn't that what proxy does? can't i just "borrow" my home PC's connection?
Me: university of mass. lowell
Him: beyond my knowledge on how to do that
Him: highly doubt you could
Me: what Does Proxy do then?
Me: i obviously have a wrong impression of it
 

aphex

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Might get a better responce in 'Networking'

 

Dragnov

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Warcraft uses the following ports...

4000
6112-6119

It uses both TCP and UDP packets. Just go to your router settings forward those ports to your computer's ip. You also look into something caled BattleLan, if you have friends that play it and just want to play a lan game not on battle.net.
 

Kntx

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Well... what your school is probably doing is throttling every port except for port 80 (deafault http port).

So mabye there is a way to make war3 use port 80????

Or connect to your home pc on port 80 then have your home pc forward all the packets???

something like that???

It seems like it should be possible.
 

LOLyourFace

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Well... what your school is probably doing is throttling every port except for port 80 (deafault http port).

So mabye there is a way to make war3 use port 80????

Or connect to your home pc on port 80 then have your home pc forward all the packets???

something like that???

is this feasible?