How can I enable my firewall so I can download world of Warcraft?
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at
8:24 pm
It keeps on coming up with a yellow light, saying: ‘Your computer appears to be behind a firewall’
Its really irritating and can’t download the game quicker with this on. Help please!
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It may be that your router if you have one, is blocking the downloads if not using a browser to download.
Most routers will automatically open the connection from FTP servers or torrent apps. like with msn. Some don’t and you have to put the port address in the router config.
With utorrent you find which port utorrent is using and then log in to your router and type in the ports it want to use.
With a firewall, the windows firewall normally opens for net traffic and programs automatically but you can check by going into the control panel and opening firewall and checking which programs are being given access.
I would suggest if you are using a router to just plug the modem directly into the PC and bypass the router if you cant figure out how to open the ports. Put it back when you Finnish the download.
Either disable the firewall (you don’t need it if you’re using a router) or allow an exception for WoW.
If you’re using a router, you’re going to have to forward a few ports to your computer also. See http://www.portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/World_of_Warcraft_Downloader/World_of_Warcraft_Downloaderindex.htm (choose your router, skip the ad and follow the directions).