(Merged) University Proxy Server Information Thread

[Logsti]

Does anyone know if you can play guild wars through a University Proxy? Is there an option somewhere to enter the proxy details to bypass it?

I really want to know this so I can buy and play this game.

[Fallen_62]

Does anyone know if you can play guild wars through a University Proxy? Is there an option somewhere to enter the proxy details to bypass it?

I really want to know this so I can buy and play this game.

I am at a university and I can play, though I had to ask them to open up my connection so I could play it decently. You may need to talk to people about getting the ports opened up, but that shouldnt be too much of a problem.

[SonOfRah]

I play through a university proxy.

We have whats called an authentication process we do -> what this does is allow the computer to make external connections through most ports. Once I'm authenticated, there is nothing I need to do as the game works fine.

GuildWars is pretty user friendly, the default port is 6113 (I think, but its around that -> standard gameing port number). If the game client cannot make a connection through that port then it will attempt to use the default port that internet browsers use (80).

As long as your internet connection is set up correctly, and you peform any authentication that is required for outgoign connections of your university network, then GW should run without any problems.

[Nec Romantic]

I am at a university and I can play, though I had to ask them to open up my connection so I could play it decently. You may need to talk to people about getting the ports opened up, but that shouldnt be too much of a problem.

I just got back to college and I can't play GW anymore because it lags out so much. When you asked them to open up the ports (6112-6113 i think) did you tell them that it was for a game or did you say it was for another program so that they would allow it? Thanks.

[rettet181]

I just arrived at my new residence in a university's dorms, and they have a proxy server that you must connect to to get internet access. They made you follow several steps to setup your browser to connect to this proxy server, but said nothing about the other programs that connect. Now I cannot access Diablo 2, Guild Wars, or even update my Anti-Virus software. Does anyone know how to correct this?

[GenRabbit]

Thats because those programs will not work thru an proxy. Reading about Proxy servers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server) it sound like an router with cache. you type the url for, say this site, the url is sent to the proxy server, the proxy server gets the site(unless its banned on Proxy server) and downloads it, then send it to you.

My guess is unless they open port 6112, used by both those games mentioned; for traffic it will not work. Talk to the admin of the dorms.

[algorhythm]

I just moved into my dorm and found out I can't connect to the game.

:(

Emailed them saying I played this on dialup and had no bandwidth issues and asked if I could get into the game.

[Anothis]

Hi,
I recently moved into halls at university, and we get the internet through a proxy server.
Since being at uni, I havent been able to connect to arenanet at all. :(

Does anyone here know what I need to do to be able to connect, or even if I can at all?

I'm not an expert with computers, so anything in simple terms would be brilliant.

Thanks for any help

[Anothis]

Aha, thankyou, I didnt find that despite searching just in case.

I'll have to go to the IT ppl tomorrow and ask them.

:happy14:

[Anothis]

(Sorry about the double post)

Ok, so I went to see the IT people and they said they 'cant' open the port for me, which I take to mean that they can, but wont, as its for gaming.

Can anyone think of a legitimate reason why I could need port 6112 opened apart from net games?

It'd be really annoying if I was unable to get to my newest game.. grr :(

Anothis

[GenRabbit]

What about saying that if they are so afraid for p2p programs to run on that port, set the firewall to only accept this port to certain IP addresses. That should be the gameservers.

If they can't; its either becuase of "dorm" policy or admin who couldn't bother.

[Ettenra]

I am a Resident Assistant at a 4yr uni in the US. Our students pay to live in our residence halls, and their internet service is covered under that cost. Provided that you are in the US and are paying for a service, as long as the port in question isn't going to cause malicious activity, what grounds do they have to say no? What IT professional can't open a port? :confused:

[elbertc]

For the answer to that, you should probably take a look at your school's Acceptable Use Policy on Computing. It's probably something they had you sign, or read when you first entered the school. It will tell you want is acceptable and not acceptable in terms of using their computers and/or their networks.

I should point out that most universities don't list specifics (I looked at the AUP of my university, at Yale's and at Brown's). Most list a generic "You should use our computers or our networks for Educational needs, but we won't check unless you're doing doing something _really_ bad on our networks."

Some Universities probably already took the approach of "Anything's that not below port 1024 will probably not be used for Education, so we'll just block everything above it." This includes chats like MSN, games like GW or WoW, or P2P programs like Bittorents, or ... umm.. Bearshare. Yeah.

Speaking as a SysAdmin (I'm not a Network Admin, so my personal knowledge of what those IT guys consider "bad" is iffy at best) at a University, if you brought your own computer and plugged it into the Residential Halls, and started playing GW, I'd say "Eh, have at it. I don't care. Enjoy" But if you did the same thing on a lab computer, I'd say "Go home, and play there. You're tying up a computer."

[Anothis]

Sadly it seems you guys are far more lenient than the admins over here *sighs sadly*

I sent this e-mail, after asking in person didnt work

Hi,

I am e-mailing to ask if you can unlock port 6112 to room C005 Moberly, Duryard
(1-01-004).

After reading through the terms of use, I do not believe this to be in breach
of the terms of use agreement. The program I would like to access, Guildwars,
would not be a drain on bandwidth, and so I believe it would conform with
section 3.1 of the conditions of using resnet
"

Guildwars would drain no more bandwidth than any normal internet use, because
it has been designed to work with a dialup modem

Taken from the guildwars official FAQ at
[external link]

Can I play
Guild Wars
on a dial-up modem?
Yes, you can. We are well aware that many users do not have broadband access,
and we want the largest possible number of gamers to be able to join our game
without being held back by technical issues like their Internet connection. We
have designed
Guild Wars
to function excellently on a dial-up connection and players confirm they have
no problems with their connection, even when playing on a server located in a
different continent.
Please let me know if this is possible
Thankyou,
Peter Wheelwright

And recieved this reply:

Hi there,

Unfortunately we do not currently permit the use of games. Whilst they are not
*specifically* blocked there are a number of issues regarding opening up access.
The main problem is that if i open up one port for Guildwars i will have to open
a few more for WoW a few more for Anarchy Online ... etc...etc. The result would
be everything open, no control and chaos.

So i am afraid the answer is no at present. We are looking into this situation
thou, and will let you know if the access policies change.

Sorry!


:rolleyes: So it doesnt look like I'll be on any time soon..

If anyone could be kind enough to pm Salieri Monchelli or Bloodymindedness [a couple of guildies] (I hope thats the right spelling) and tell them that my char Kitiara Anothis can't get online I'd be really grateful! :love38:

[Demented Soul]

Since I don't know much regarding the net/routers and crap,

Is it possible to change the port to a lower port maybe from a program outside of GW?

Example: GW usually uses port 6112, would it be possible to use a program that virtually changes the port to say 120 then sends it through the router/modem from there?


*Snip*

That's sad to hear. :( Although it's nice to hear they might be changing their systems to help people use it more easily.

[elbertc]

Since I don't know much regarding the net/routers and crap,

Is it possible to change the port to a lower port maybe from a program outside of GW?

Example: GW usually uses port 6112, would it be possible to use a program that virtually changes the port to say 120 then sends it through the router/modem from there?

Unfortunately, no. The way Internet ports work, it wouldn't. Both the server (GW Server) and the client (your computer) has to agree on which port to communicate on. If you make any modification on your part without telling the server, it won't work.

[Demented Soul]

Ah ok, I thought it might be possible because of the ability to change ports in P2Ps and bittorent. At the time I thought it probably wouldn't, but I thought to myself if it sends out at a specific port then wouldn't the server send back at the port it had been sent at.

[Christopher Wolfkin]

Hey there,

Sorry if this question has already been answered, but I'm really not up with the technical lingo :/

My university runs a http proxy, namely: proxy.student.otago.ac.nz port 3128. I'd really like to be able to play guild wars from uni on my laptop.

What can I do?

I'd really appreciate any technical assitance with this one :)

Cheers,
Chris

[Mr Panda]

hmm, I'm 100% sure theres a way for guildwars to go straigh through port blocking...just has to be found. Stuff like internet tunnel and so on?

Admittedly it's a piece of virtual lan software, but www.hamachi.cc (http://www.hamachi.cc) is something I use for getting stuff past a uni port blocking thing, can play whatever the hell you like through it (as a lan game...). I've heard of variuos things like vtunnel and so on, I'll take a look into it, and I'll PM your guildies :)

And yes, your admin is giving you a bullsh:censored: response; he doesn't want to. Opening up ports for AO, WoW, Eve, Guildwars would amount to a under half hour task, and would by no means leave so many ports open as to lead to "no control...chaos". There are over 65 thousand ports...


EDIT, ok, so I wont PM your guildies. This thread is a year old...wtf was it doing on page one of technical forum...

[Aaelos Aragrond]

Well.... looks like I've just joined the club. I appears that my university has just started blocking port 6112, which nicely screws up GW for me.

To be honest, I'm sick and tired of this, I had to stop playing lineage 2 because they did the exact same thing. Also tried city of villians beta, that was a no go since the nice admins have also blocked the ports for that.

I'm not exactly an internet expert, but is there no way to use a proxy server to get around port blocking? I know that I could use such a server to gain access to p2p networks, even though the university admins have blocked those, but to be honest, I'm not THAT bothered about p2p, and I don't fancy getting my internet access cut off if I'm caught. I would even pay for a proxy server if necessary (ironic since GW is famously free of monthly fees :angry: ). Only problem is, is it even possible to configure GW to connect through a proxy?

Before when I've contacted the admins, they've just given me a short answer to the effect of 'sorry, we can't do it'. I can't understand why they just keep blocking more and more ports..... they definitely don't have any problem with people playing games, the university even has 4 of it's own servers for games like BF2, CoD2, and CSS :undecided:

I'm just gonna go in and ask them face-to-face why they've done it and if there's any way for them to unblock the ports for me.

[defrule]

I'm at university and Guild Wars works fine for me. But what doesn't work is Ventrilo or Teamspeak. They are so stubborn and won't open the ports.

[Aaelos Aragrond]

I've been looking into it, and there seems to be a program called proxifer (go google for it if you like) that should be able to allow GW to get around port blocking. I read a thread on the guild hall (can't link cos it's a rival fansite), made by someone with the same problem, and they manage to bypass the blocked port on a university network using this program. However.... I don't just want to go wading in and try it myself, because I'm concerned that I'll be disconnected from the network if they find out what I've been doing (even though I wouldn't actually be using it for anything that breaches their terms of service). I love GW, but I need the internet for other things too, and I can't afford to risk having my access taken away....

[Mr Panda]

Seeing as how this thread is sort of been rezzed, meh...

Theres a gw command line option called -port.
I dont know if it works, or wtf it actually does, but, call me a genius, I think it changes the port the client uses...

So try -port xxxx where xxxx is a number you know is unblocked, might actually work.

[Aaelos Aragrond]

Seeing as how this thread is sort of been rezzed, meh...

Theres a gw command line option called -port.
I dont know if it works, or wtf it actually does, but, call me a genius, I think it changes the port the client uses...

So try -port xxxx where xxxx is a number you know is unblocked, might actually work.

Tried it, and it doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. Thanks for the help, though :smiley:

I'm pretty sure I could get back on guild wars by using a program called proxifier, which would allow guild wars to connect through a proxy server by using port tunneling. However, I'm kinda scared to do it because I don't know whether it's allowed or not. I have checked through all of their rules and regulations, and I can't find anything that says I can't do it, but then it just seems to me that dodging their port block would be something that could land me in trouble.....

[Jodie O]

I'm at university and Guild Wars works fine for me. But what doesn't work is Ventrilo or Teamspeak. They are so stubborn and won't open the ports.

Sorry to res this thread again, Any ideas? My friend is at a US university, and he can play GW just fine, its the above issue that defrule mentioned that is the problem.
I am of the understanding that my friend will have to contact the university IT support to ask for some ports to be opened, but what ports does Ventrilo use? and what should he be asking for.
Anything else that he can do other than asking support to open them up?

Thanks in advance.

[Neji Taichou]

Since this thread is here, I don't think theres a point to starting a new thread. so, time for unholy thread necromancy.

My uni has a firewall which they are willing to make individual holes in for various students- you just have to ask and give them some info.
the protocol, port to open and your reason.

as far as I can gather, GW used port 6112, so thats ok, and reason is simple enough. But what protocol? (it offers TCP and UDP)

^^

Thanks :D

[MoonUnit]

It uses TCP.

[Tom Nook]

Guild Wars also needs unrestricted access to TCP port 80, in addition to TCP port 6112.