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World of Warcraft and D-Link DGL-4300

7earitup

7earitup

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Since I am sticking with my DGL-4300 for as long as I can, I would like to know what the proper way to open up the ports for WoW is.

I have 4 computers that connect to the router to play WoW all at the same time. It seems that sometimes, some of the computers will lag while the others will not, almost as if they are fighting over which ports to use and they begin to conflict. It is important to note that they all connect fine, they just have random spurts of lag that are not to be attributed to the internet connection itself.

I was just wondering if anyone else uses a DGL-4300 and has multiple computers on the network playing WoW at the same time. Knowing how to open the ports, and what ports, on all computers would be very handy.

Thanks!
 
WoW has no need to open ports. There simply are none. It's a NAT friendly game.

They are not fighting over ports, there are other issues at play here. I suggest you try a different router, perhaps something like the Buffalo WHR-G54 - which can be loaded with DD-WRT. Or really any router that can run DD-WRT. Its easy to see what the issues are when you can actually see how many NAT translations are theere, and how much memory is used by certain processes.
 
According to the WoW forums, that is not true.

Many people seem to have issues with routers and ports when they have more than 2 computers on the network trying to play WoW at the same time. I was just wondering how the ports they applied are used with the DGL-4300.
 
If you are looking for ports try this
http://portforward.com/cportsnotes/battlenet/wow.htm

If you need a noob guide to the router then this
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21298
I think one thing the guide forgets to say is to add the IPs under the advanced then Gaming tab.

Add the ports for every IP of every computer on your network.
It would be nice/good if you set up static IPs/DHCP reservation under the Basic tab then Network settings.


With the lag problem, you can try to disable the gamefuel completely. See if that helps. Or instead of automatic upstream detection do manual and type your maximum upload speed.

Whats your internet speed rated at? Download/upload?
 
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GameFuel is already disabled as I do not find a big use for it.

I will take a look at the links you posted. Thanks for the help.
 
Well, I tried the guide, but doing it that way does not work since you can only forward the ports to one computer at a time. I tried repeating it for each internal IP and it would not let me.
 
1.9 is already installed =)

I wish I had a spare router laying around to test. I will keep playing with my settings to see if I can find something that works.
 
7earitup said:
Well, I tried the guide, but doing it that way does not work since you can only forward the ports to one computer at a time. I tried repeating it for each internal IP and it would not let me.
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Correct. You cannot forward a single port to two differant IP's. The purpose of Port forwarding is to allow services to be hosted behind your firewall for INCOMING connections. For example if you hosted a ventrilo server, you would setup a port forward to redirect incoming connections to the IP address of the box hosting the ventrilo server.

When you initiate a connection to a WoW server you a creating an OUTGOING connection which your router keeps track of in a NAT table. Because the Source ports and Ip addresses are unique each machine can concurrently connect to the wow servers, technically without conflict. An ealier poster said there are other forces at work and everything is indicating that your router as the fault. He is probably correct. I personally have DD-WRT loaded on a WRT54GL. Use it for alot without issues like you are having.
 
I do not seem to be having as many issues now. I am actually starting to relate it to my crappy ISP (Mediacom - NE North Carolina). The tech that came out openly admitted that the service sucks at times - very nice.
 
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I know that at a friend's house that I installed a TrendNet TEW-652BRP v1.0 at, they have about 3-4 people that play WoW, and they haven't complained about severe lag much. Connection is Comcast 16/2.
 
I figure I should mention: 2 (used to be 3) of us play WoW at the same time over a linksys router at home with out issue. The only port forwards we have are the ones for the updater and those are off unless there is an update. Post update we just pass the update around on a USB key.
 
7earitup said:
According to the WoW forums, that is not true.

Many people seem to have issues with routers and ports when they have more than 2 computers on the network trying to play WoW at the same time. I was just wondering how the ports they applied are used with the DGL-4300.
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Never take advice from the 12 year olds on the WoW forums.

99% of computer noobs think "opening ports" magically fixes every networking problem. Your issue has absolutely nothing to do with port forwarding.
 
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