Yes! there is a way. but it's slow. too slow. unless u want to pay like $9.99 a month, then u can run at 25-kilobytes/sec <--download speed, not 25 kiloBITS/sec, so its kinda fast! ok, go to www.hopster.com and download Hopster and set it up, now search google for SocksCap and download it. in SocksCap, set the proxy as 127.0.0.1 port 1080. now add the WoW.exe. Now click run in SocksCap and it works! email me on saul@wowmail.com if there r any probs.
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Anonymous2006-03-11 3:53
aha, sorry, I guess I should have explained better. my entire school network is behind a proxy server, but it's perfectly allowed to set the web browser so that it goes through the proxy to get to the internet. what I want to know is, can I do the same thing with WoW?
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Anonymous2006-03-17 4:58
bump!
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Anonymous2006-03-20 8:54
it is quite possible... you should install a proxy server on your home computer and set it to accept connections on port 80 (or some other port you can access from school... port 80 is used for web servers so it is the safest bet..). If you have a descent connection at home and at school it should not lag too much... although it will never be quite as playing from home :P
Can't really remember exactly how to do this, but there are some programs that can wrap all internet traffic trough a port like that SocksCap program someone was talking about.. since WOW uses a few ports it would probably be the easiest way to do this...
good luck, and If it goes well, why not write a short guide about it and post the url here?
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harl2006-03-28 18:47
i currently seem to have a rather similar problem at hand:
i'm at my parents place for 10 days and was trying to use one of their machines normally being used for dtp purposes in an intranet with nearly no internet connectivity to connect my machine to the internet today (because the used telephone system won't allow my machine to connect directly without cutting everyone else off. respecively, i also don't have the right cable/adapter here and don't want to buy one just for these few days. yea, stupid me, but i wouldn't need it afterwards anymore).
i'm not too fond of using microsoft's ICS (or any direct equivalent) and when i tried to get it to work with ICS it didn't work after all anyway, so now i've set-up a wingate-server on the local machine and a wingate-client on mine, connecting them by wingates proxy-/socks-services.
everything worked so far, including IRC, http etc. only programs like WoW didn't seem to work (correctly), because they don't have any internal proxy-settings and they don't automatically inherit settings from the wingate-client (and not from the IE proxy settings additionally, because those don't really work well together with wingate).
so i installed SocksCap (the one been mentioned in some posts above already), it's very easy to set-up (just enter the socks host, port etc, add WoW and start it).
and it looked like it was gonna work, because i accomplished to get farther than i got before with anything else, so i could log into battle.net, then chose my character and entered the realm.
but somehow that only works for a few moments (about 10 to 20 seconds) and then stops as if i had a bad network connection or would be playing with an extremely high latency connection, so the character can move around but not perform any actions, the pet isn't following (which is the most obvious indicator for this) and nothing else is moving (buffs aren't wearing off etc) and when i try to log-out or quit the game through the main menu (hitting the escape key) absolutely nothing(!) happens. had to hit Alt+F4 then to exit the game and my character actually isn't on battle.net anymore at that moment, so my WoW doesn't even quit itself ever (sends data to wingate but gets no response, so it just sits there and waits for data for eons).
i guess something isn't working the way it should when trying to use wingate and sockscap together and i would gladly see forth any alternative solution to this (possibly not involving things like buying a hardware router).
i'll continue looking for some software solution, including programs like sockscap, ken!, wingate, winproxy etc. and i will try again with an ICS when i get the DHCP to correctly work on the other machine. that probably would solve most of my problems (though i still don't like ICS).
got any other ideas ?
any help is appreciated. (even in case that i actually won't acutely need it anymore in about 10 days, because i'm gonna visit my parents again some time and then i'd have the same problem, assuming that i'd still play WoW then as well.)
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Anonymous2006-04-01 7:37
WISPS'S'S WNERT DA RACE! :O
IT TWAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE, AND THE SERVING WAS...DEADLY!!!!!!!
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Kek2007-12-06 7:15
stfu u noobs
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Anonymous2007-12-06 8:26
You do know that proxies add like 300 more ping to the game?