Block WOW on network?

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Hi everyone....

We have about 4 PC's on our lan... in my room I have my own PC and the router together with the hub.

Is there a way that I can block my little bro from using the network internet to play world of warcraft online?

He should use his 3G connection to save our bandwidth (that we use for work) but instead he uses the adsl...

He should still be able to browse the internet & everything, I just want to block him from playing wow on our server using the adsl.

Thanks
 
I'm not the best person to answer this, but I'm sure you can block traffic to IP's via the router. You'll just have to find out the IPs of the WOW server he's using and add it to the routers blocked list, the routers manual should be able to help you there.

On mine it's in Advanced > IP Filter. (if that's any help to you)

If he knows the admin password to the router change it so he can't remove those settings.
 
You could block the port, but it's really not worth it, WOW use an average of about 1 to 8 megabytes per hour, not really what you would call a bandwidth hog.
 
Hey Browser,

Thanks I will have a look in the router management settings... haven't thought of that!

Perhaps there will be a setting to block the port that WOW use? I bet if I block that port WOW woudnt be able to work.

haha, he doesnt know how to work the router. ;)

Thanks
 
onlyme -

OK I saw your post now. (re: port)

Have you tested WoW? I was concerned its using alot of bandwidth (and possible slowing down the internet in general), not so?

3G_
 
The port might be needed by something else at some point, and if you've forgotten that it's blocked you could have a field day trying to figure out why something won't work. Blocking only the necessary IP/s could save you trouble.
 
3G_ said:
onlyme -

OK I saw your post now. (re: port)

Have you tested WoW? I was concerned its using alot of bandwidth (and possible slowing down the internet in general), not so?

3G_
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I've traced WOW and tested the bandwidth it uses before, it varies but averages very low, as I said earlier about 1 - 8 Mb per hour, and it has virtually no affect on anyone else using the web.
 
onlyme said:
I've traced WOW and tested the bandwidth it uses before, it varies but averages very low, as I said earlier about 1 - 8 Mb per hour, and it has virtually no affect on anyone else using the web.
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I tested this extensively and can honestly say that WOW uses very little bandwidth compared to other online games.

I played for a period of 3 hours per day for a week and used only 200mb.
 
OK Cool - thanks for the info guys... this proves why this forum is the best =)

Ciao!
 
On average it uses about 13 megs ever 2 hours or so. I play for 6-7 hours on end sometimes and it only comes to about 30-45 meg in total bandwidth.

You can actually play a crap load of wow on a 1 gig unshaped connection every month
 
It also depends on what addons you have that might be receiving or transmitting data - this can up the bandwidth usage, but not by a lot at all. I find that a 1gb unshaped lasts me the entire month, with bandwidth to spare, and that's playing every night for several hours, so I'm pretty sure your brother's use of your ADSL link for WoW is the least of your worries.
 
Agreed, WoW is still safe and dependent on age id rather kill his HTTP port than anything else.

2-3hours = 20-30MB up and down.. surfing the net for 3 hours on SOME sites with loads of pic's ;) will go over 50MB
 
The only time WoW uses a lot of bandwidth is if he's using a voice client to interact with his guild. I use vent, and that pushes usage to about 60-80mb per 4 hours or so.
 
Did research on doing the exact same thing because my brother plays WoW for about 8 hours on end each day (probably the main reason he failed Matric maths). WoW uses port 3724, so blocking that should work unless he uses a private server, then it might not.

I wouldn't have a problem with him using 60Mb per day, provided he damn-well pays for it.
 
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