D-Link DGL-4100 and WoW

BIGGIBIGGI Fort Meade, MD
edited December 2005 in Science & Tech
So I'm a bit confused on how to configure my router. Here is a part of an email I sent to blizzard tech support:
There are four fields two are source and two are destination. I'm assuming the source is me and the destination is Blizzard.

Here is the link for tech support on my router.
http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1998&question=DGL-4100%20/%20DGL-4300 (scroll down)

I'm on "Adding a GameFuel™ Rule"

Source IP Range - Enter the LAN IP address(es) of the computer(s) that traffic will originate from.
Source Port Range - Enter the port(s) on the LAN interface that traffic will originate from.
Destination IP Range Enter the WAN IP address(es) that traffic will be routed to.
Destination Port Range Enter the port(s) that traffic will be routed to on the WAN interface.

So what I'm confused about is what the Destination IP is and what the Destination Port is? And how do I find out what those numbers are. I'm assuming the Source IP and Port is my 192.168.1.101(2,3,4,5) and my port is what?

I'n my above quote I gave a link to the setup page.

I hope this wasn't confusing, if you need me to clarify anything please ask ;D

Added:

These are the ports WoW uses, 3724, 6112, and 6881-6999. I will use these for port forwarding.

Comments

  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2005
    I have the 4300 configured and it works great.

    Connect to the your WOW server and then ALT-TAB out and look at the Status > Active sessions page to get your server IP range at the WOW data center. Then you just enter a range including that one as the destination and you done. Here's a pic of my settings for BlackHand.

    I also prioritize the login and accounting servers too cause I share my connection with 2 neighbors :)

    The ports don't really matter since it is an outbound stream. Only the source and destination IP's matter to set priority for. It's not opening ports in the firewall so you just need to set a range that gets the priority right.

    After you get it set you can go re -log back in the game and ALT-TAB out again and check status > active sessions and see the priority is 25 or whatever you set and you know it's working then.

    Hope this makes sense :thumbsup:
  • BIGGIBIGGI Fort Meade, MD
    edited December 2005
    What is the deal with the priority? I mean does it really matter? What if I set them all to 0 ? ;D

    So there are different IPs for the logon server and the actuall game server?

    Should I set my values the same as yours, once I find out my IPs?
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2005
    The priority is what makes the 4100 special. It allows you to tell the router what stream is important to you thus giving it the fastest route through the outgoing buffer.

    You do not want to set them to zero. The automatic gamefuel will set most connections to around 125 -130. They say set VOIP to 10. The rest you want in order of importance. I set the WOW data stream to 25 so it doesn't get interrupted. The login stuff doesn't really matter. I just like to play around.

    You'll have to look at the active connections while in game to see which address your particular game server is using, but it will probably be in the same block I used.

    You can always just set the router to auto for GameFuel. It does a pretty good job determining priority requirements but it will take 5 or 6 minutes to get the WOW stream to a high priority.
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