How to Setup Internet Connection sharing

[chrispols]

Hi there,

I've been playing WoW for over a month, and now my fiance is playing. I have 2 machines at home sharing the net connection. My machine is doing the ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) for her machine.

My problem is if I have any firewall running, her WoW won't start. It will Handshake, succesful, but when the next step comes, it just stays at "Success". If I close all firewalls her machine connects with no problem.

I went on to the WoW site and found 2 ports needed to be open, namely 3724 and 6112 which I have done, but nothing changes.

Obviously I do not want to run it without a firewall. Any suggestions on how to get the Windows Firewall from allowing that connection?

Thanks
Chris

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[sasquatine]

Hi there,

I've been playing WoW for over a month, and now my fiance is playing. I have 2 machines at home sharing the net connection. My machine is doing the ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) for her machine.

My problem is if I have any firewall running, her WoW won't start. It will Handshake, succesful, but when the next step comes, it just stays at "Success". If I close all firewalls her machine connects with no problem.

I went on to the WoW site and found 2 ports needed to be open, namely 3724 and 6112 which I have done, but nothing changes.

Obviously I do not want to run it without a firewall. Any suggestions on how to get the Windows Firewall from allowing that connection?

Thanks
Chris

I have been running home networking for the last several years, using ICS is not a good idea especially if you have a high speed account. If you have plain old dial-up internet you're really stuck, but if you have cable or dsl you need to purchase a router and then disable ICS on your computer.

Use the built in firewall capabilites of the router and have it recognize WoW as a trusted application, problem solved. I have WoW installed on all three computers using a router and have no problems with us all playing at one time.

Have fun!