My hopes for this being resolved are low, but it's worth a shot...

While at home I can connect and play with nary an issue (except for our friend the memory assertion), and I have successfully exited WoW creating a healthy cache. However, when I am at school I am able to login, see the character list and login to my character, almost immediately after entering the game world (sometimes before, the loading screen finishes but the screen never disappears), I am disconnected. Everyone is frozen in place and I am unable to cast any spells, it takes several minutes before the "You have been disconnected" notice appears and I am kicked back to the login screen.

If I boot into Windows, I can play TeamFortress 2 just fine, I guess next time I'm home I'll download the installer and try it out in windows. I have a trace route from the campus:

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Q u o t e:

1 10.150.1.1 (10.150.1.1) 23.013 ms 3.376 ms 3.031 ms
2 10.10.1.3 (10.10.1.3) 2.419 ms 1.076 ms 1.684 ms
3 66.251.95.1 (66.251.95.1) 3.908 ms 1.993 ms 5.662 ms
4 ag-deancoll-serial2-8.bosma01.paetec.net (63.139.20.113) 7.726 ms 7.333 ms 5.996 ms
5 gi-4-0-0-12.core02.bstnma01.paetec.net (66.155.217.190) 13.049 ms 39.432 ms 13.486 ms
6 po-2-0-0.core02.nycmny01.paetec.net (64.80.253.82) 10.708 ms 37.550 ms 14.716 ms
7 66.155.218.11 (66.155.218.11) 13.370 ms 15.583 ms 11.016 ms
8 12.118.94.49 (12.118.94.49) 11.849 ms 15.086 ms 10.962 ms
9 cr1.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.131.166) 80.931 ms 80.026 ms 83.727 ms
10 cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.1.2) 79.772 ms 81.943 ms 99.947 ms
11 cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.2.53) 89.481 ms 132.998 ms 81.241 ms
12 cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net (12.122.31.85) 81.114 ms 78.977 ms *
13 cr1.slkut.ip.att.net (12.122.30.25) 94.353 ms 100.399 ms 127.107 ms
14 cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.30.30) 90.799 ms 80.530 ms 116.081 ms
15 cr84.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.123.30.249) 91.469 ms 81.757 ms 80.294 ms
16 gar5.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.129.25) 99.686 ms 81.994 ms 98.170 ms
17 12.122.255.74 (12.122.255.74) 90.616 ms 78.835 ms 80.607 ms
18 mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net (12.129.193.242) 79.497 ms
mdf001c7613r0004-gig-12-1.lax1.attens.net (12.129.193.246) 87.067 ms
mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net (12.129.193.242) 81.634 ms
19 * 12.129.211.36 (12.129.211.36) 79.838 ms !X *
20 * 12.129.211.36 (12.129.211.36) 102.794 ms !X *
21 12.129.211.36 (12.129.211.36) 101.745 ms !X * *
22 * 12.129.211.36 (12.129.211.36) 84.230 ms !X *
23 12.129.211.36 (12.129.211.36) 88.540 ms !X * 104.242 ms !X

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I also have a wireshark log if needed.

Hello Kanith,

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Q u o t e:
1 10.150.1.1 (10.150.1.1) 23.013 ms 3.376 ms 3.031 ms

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So you are using a wireless connection at school.

Do you know anyone else that plays WoW and are able to use the wireless connection at school ? Also do you have a separate setting for your connection at home and the connection at school ?

Hello Kanith,


The 802.11g would be more stable so you should be getting a good connection at school, so we need to look at your system more closely then. Do you use any security programs on your Mac ? Basically I'm trying to find out what, on your system, could be interfering with the connection. Some 3rd party AddOn management programs install PeerGuardian. Also do you use LittleSnitch or any packet sniffing programs ?

Hello Kanith,


Good catch with the hard drive directory corruption, that would have been something I would have recommended a few posts down the road, so I'm glad you took the step.

Try booting to the Mac OS install disk and repairing the hard drive using the Disk Utility program, unless you have DiskWarrior, which is something I always used for clients when these type of issues came up. It's just more powerful as a utility from my experience. But let us know what you find out, and even if the repair says it fixed things, run it a second time, to make sure there aren't any other corruptions that need to be fixed. Plus as a sign that the utility actually did fix things, what cay I say, I don't trust repair utilities, they lie.