WoW at School/Work/Behind Firewall. FAST - Supercharge YourFreedom

[Lith]

PLAYING WORLD OF WARCRAFT
(AND OTHER APPS) FROM BEHIND AN INSTITUTIONAL FIREWALL, SUCH AS AT SCHOOL OR WORK.

NEW METHOD – NOT A REPOST READ CAREFULLY!

Note that the approach described here involves an application called Your Freedom. The Your Freedom Method has been explained before, in these VERY GOOD POSTS-
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/bots-p...r-freedom.html
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/bots-p...rk-school.html

This application and the corresponding service is free to use in its rudimentary form and for testing, but in order to use more sophisticated service components permanently, a service package needs to be bought. The service needed to play games like WoW very well is not very expensive though (cheapest about 5 EUR per month).

AGAIN THIS IS NOT A REPOST!
– I WILL BE EXPLAINING THE USAGE OF O P E N V P N MODE- THIS IS MORE EFFICIENT, FASTER, AND EASIER To use THAN SOCKSIFIERS! (Including Freecap/ Sockscap.) that have been used in these two previous posts. Because of the different nature of this, I will do my own rerun version of setting up your freedom,(if you don’t like, then please check the other threads) This however, is at the moment ONLY COMPLETELY FOOLPROOF FOR WINDOWS XP – It will work with OSx/Vista/Linux too, but requires completely different methods of setting up. Vista is most similar to this, but you need to disable a lot of it’s in-built security options. – I have made some additional comments concerning vista, but from responses I have had, this is not 100% foolproof. Common sense will help you a lot.

TECHNICAL EXPLANATION OF
YOUR FREEDOM, AND HOW IT RELATES TO WOW
This section HAS been rewritten partially, but with intent to not confuse those setting up OPENVPN MODE, and is in more depth than predecessors. For the excellent posts from provious authors about Your freedom and Sockscap. OP’s linked just above.

WoW, like many online games, relies on your PC's ability to use a communications protocol called UDP, or Universal Datagram Protocol. Web proxy servers however only allow the connection oriented protocol TCP (transmission control protocol) to pass through, and many will not even allow TCP except for connections to HTTPS web sites. There are proxies compliant to the SOCKS5 standard that can forward UDP but they are rare, plus WoW does not contain a configuration option for a proxy.
To summarize: there are two obstacles here.
So what you you do? Basically you need to change your connectivity situation to match the one that you likely have at home: you need to be behind a router that hides your internal subnet and allows for unrestricted outbound traffic and corresponding reply traffic.


PREREQUISITES
In order to play WoW though a proxy you need administrative rights on your PC. You need this to install the game itself as well so it's probably a safe bet that you have the necessary rights. You certainly do if it's your PC.
Create a Your Freedom account
Visit the Your Freedom web site and set up an account. You probably cannot do this from a highly restrictive place so it's best if you do it from home. Click on the link below the login and password form fields:




his will take you to a registration form that requests many details; note that the only things you really have to fill in are:

• Username
• Password (fill in twice)
• Email address

Choose a username that contains ASCII letters and digits only (@ is good as well), you should avoid punctuation and special characters. The less commonplace it is the less likely it is that it is not already taken (you could use your email address, for example!). Letter case does not matter here (it does with the password).

Your password should be at least 6 characters long and should not be easy to guess. It is not a good idea to use a password that you use for other services (e.g. to play WoW) already. You won't have to enter this password very often so make it random and write it down somewhere. On an old-fashioned slip of paper.

Your email address needs to be functional because the web site will send you an email containing an activation link. Then click on "Create Account". On the next page, verify that you've typed in the correct email address, then click on "Create account now!".

Now check your email box. You should have received an email to confirm your account creation (it may take a while, be patient and be sure that it does not end up in a SPAM folder!); click the link in there to confirm your email address. If you can't for whatever reason, please forward the email to [email protected] and state the account name you've chosen; the support staff will activate it for you.

Once your account and email has been confirmed you should be able to log in on www.your-freedom.net.

(All following steps need to be taken on the PC that you would like to play WoW on and currently cannot.)

USING THE OPENVPN METHOD – THIS WILL IMPROVE THE SPEED OF FREE FREEDOM SUCH THAT IT WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO PLAY WOW IN NEARLY ALL SITUATIONS.

Ensure there is Java support on your PC
You need to have a Java Runtime Environment installed. If you're not sure, visit Sun's Java Download page and download the JDK (the top one will do), it contains the JRE. Install it on your PC before you continue. The Sun Java Development Kit is free but please read Sun's license.

Ensure OpenVPN is installed on your PC
The approach described here uses the OpenVPN mode of Your Freedom. In order to use it you need OpenVPN support on your PC. OpenVPN is free software; you can download it as Windows installer version from the OpenVPN download page. Please note that the OpenVPN team would appreciate your donation once it all works and you are happy with it -- without this phantastic piece of software this all wouldn't be possible.

Set it all up

Download and install the Your Freedom client
Visit the download page and download the latest installer version. That's the top-most choice of all the options there. Then install it. That's very straight-forward, the default options should be just fine.

Getting connected
When you start Your Freedom for the first time (Windows Vista users need to right-click on the desktop icon or start menu item, then select "Run as administrator" in order to use OpenVPN mode) a wizard will show up. Click on "Continue", and you'll see this:

If you are trapped behind a web proxy you need to configure it here. You don't know what to put here? Check out your web browser's settings. In Internet Explorer, choose "Extras", "Internet Options", then select the "Connections" tab. Click on "LAN settings". There is probably a proxy server configured there; note down the address and the port and copy the values into the wizard form. Click on "Continue" when done -- this will test the values you've entered, they either work or they don't or you might need additional data (authentication info). If you are having difficulties completing this step then please ask the Your Freedom support team for assistance. You could also try without a web proxy, or ask your local guru for help.

Let's assume this worked. The configuration wizard will then try to locate Your Freedom servers that you can connect to. This step may take a few minutes so go grab a coffee. If you're lucky you'll end up with a long list of usable servers. All of them will do for starters (except ems10), but your best choices probably are ems01, ems08 and ems16. You need to choose a server that is actually connectible, i.e. that has the word "yes" or a number in one of the columns on the right. For now just choose one of the top-most ones and click on "Next".

The next step is to enter your Your Freedom username and password -- that's the ones you've used to set up the account on the web page and that you've written down.

Click on "Next" when you've filled them in. Then click on "Save and exit".
You should now see the Your Freedom client's main window, just like this one:




Click on "Configure" so we can make a few more adjustments. Another window will open up:



Tick the "Reconnect after server shutdown" checkbox. This only works with paid-for accounts but it doesn't hurt to tick it now. Then click on the "Server Selection" tab and move the sliders to these positions:



To prefer a European or North American server, move the corresponding sliders as well; these values will help the wizard to choose the best servers for you but this is not exact science and not important enough to waste more than a minute with. When done, click on "Save and exit".



You should now be back to the main window. Click on the "Ports" tab. Ensure that it looks exactly like the example below, you must tick the OpenVPN checkbox:

Now go back to the Status tab and finally click on "Start connection". The door icon should go through these stages, from left to right (this may well take 30 seconds, please be patient):

Icons and Descriptions

The YF connection is closed, you are trapped behind your proxy.

The client is trying to connect to the server but has not yet managed.

The YF connection is fully functional but OpenVPN is not (yet) up.

All is working fine, you are online, using OpenVPN!

Click on the Messages tab to see what's going on; you need to see an AUTH_OK message and you need to see the "OpenVPN ready, you are online" message.
Play, enjoy.



"Test drive" packages are available for free on the "Packages" page on the Your Freedom web site (be sure you log in first); click on the "Try before you buy" link on the left hand side. If you can't create your test package there just send a nice email to the Your Freedom support staff asking for a test package to evaluate WoW through Your Freedom; tell them whether you would like to test a BasicFreedom package (256 kbit/s, usable and cheap) or an EnhancedFreedom package (4 Mbit/s, lightning fast and slightly more expensive). Remember to adjust your bandwidth setting in WoW after you've upgraded the account.

WoW still does not find its servers!
That's likely because your system does not have a name server configured that is able to resolve the names. Shut down Your Freedom, then go to "Start", "Control Panel", "Network Connections" and right-click on the TAP-WIN32 interface and select "Properties". Find "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" in the selection list, mark it, then click on "Properties". In the lower half of the window that has opened, configure "81.169.172.219" as DNS server. Click all the OK buttons and try again.

OK, so do I have to buy a package?
Once you have sufficiently tested Your Freedom with WoW and you are happy with the results, your test package will eventually expire. You'll notice immediately because your Your Freedom account will be back to 60 kbit/s and it will be a pain in the backside. That's the right moment to ask yourself whether you'll be using this in the future and whether or not it's worth a few Euros or Dollars to enjoy the game through a proxy or firewall. If your judgement is positive, please visit the "Packages" page on the Your Freedom web site, log in and consider the packages under offer. Good choices for WoW are BasicFreedom and EnhancedFreedom, TotalFreedom is overkill. You can always upgrade later without losing money, and there is a full money back guarantee if you are not happy.

USING HTTPS ON THE YOUR FREEDOM SITE MIGHT LET YOU GET AROUND THE PROBLEM IF YOUR SCHOOL OR WORKPLACE BLOCKS IT.
-Https:\\your-freedom.net

I hope I have helped people using sockscap , like I was until I tried openvpn. its worth it.

PROVIDED YOU HAVE ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS TO A MACHINE (YOUR OWN LAPTOP OR WHATEVER) THIS SHOULD WORK OK.

COMING SOON - HTTPTUNNEL GUIDE - alternative to your freedom


Thanks for reading fellow people stuck without wow! :wave:

[Lith]

sorry i made a word table - didnt work, NOT FINISHED!

[Cyberthube]

this works i use this already alot... you alsno need socks cap so you can start wow

[Lith]

no you dont

[nappjuck]

I'll just give you rep for a very thought (or written)-through tut.

[Nolixz]

Very well written guide, shitloads of information wich is good.
Ill +rep you

[Lith]

Thanks guys, I almost came when i saw I was no longer a leecher,
if ANYONE wants ANY information or help concerning Getting access to wow and the mmowned forums from ANY kind of internet connection, chances are I have tried it, Next, VISTA HELP! + Mac os walkthrough!

[Tenni-T]

Awesome! I love when people have put time into their guides!
Beyond that, this was just what I needed =)

+rep!

[Lith]

sigtesttesttest

[Krunkage]

Nice, +rep.

[_novaLine]

This mode made WoW Lagg ALOT so i use Normal settings with your-freedom and sockscap and it works great just a litte lagg sometimes =)

[laren]

I will love you for mac tutorial... buying the top macbook pro tonight :P