Sunday, October 4, 2009

How do i set up World of Warcraft on 2 computers using Netgear rp614v2?

I am trying to figure out how to set up a network to be able to run the game on 2 computers , but the router will not assign the same ports to 2 different ip's. Have gone through the steps to set up static ip on both systems now trying top figure out how to set up router to allow botrh of them access to same application . Pardon me for being n00b to networking.



How do i set up World of Warcraft on 2 computers using Netgear rp614v2?antispyware



For WoW you don't need to do anything special to set it up on two PCs. Just install the software on both PCs and it will access the servers over the internet. You will still need two accounts if you want to play on both computers at the same time though.



Only one account can be used at a time. If you are trying to login on 2 computers with a single account, then one will be disconnected even if they are different IPs.



As for the BG downloader problem, check here. You need to use port forwarding on your router to let the updater through.



http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow/?id=...



OK. In that case you can't port forward the same port number to more than one PC, but that should only apply to the BG downloader. There are workarounds though.



1. Create a shared folder on the PC with port forwarding enabled and then you can access it over the network and patch it from there.



2. Go into your router and edit the IP addresses so the other PC can download them, then switch them back afterwards.



As for playing the game on 2 different PCs, you should still be able to do that with different accounts. If you only get disconnected on one PC, it could be a patchy connection with that PC. In games, network problems are more pronounced since they are always accessing, but in normal web browsing sometimes you don't notice it as much. Try pinging your router repeatedly and see if there are any drops from that PC. That will show if the connection to the router is the problem.

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