WA Wormnet help

[neilaug28]

Hi, I used to play worms armageddon probably years ago and I wanted to start playing online again however I haven't been able to get connnected online to WN. It says unable to connect to sever, please try a different one. I installed the latest patch, Update: 3.6.26.5 and i don't seem to know what the problem could be. I am at a dorm in a university and do not know if the problem is on my end or if they block any of the ports i would need. I am no computer expert so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[neilaug28]

k so i was reading around and i tried entering this in the command promt:
telnet wormnet1.team17.com 6667
and it said could not open a connection to the host on port 6667: connection failed

Then i tried telnet wormnet1.team17.com 80 and i got a blank screen. So is there any way to realize if port 6667 is the problem? I am not sure since I am able to use mIRC to download stuff before but i dont know if that was 6667.

[CyberShadow]

Your university network is almost surely blocking IRC connections (port 6667), which isn't uncommon for dormitory networks. You will have to settle this with your network administrators.

[neilaug28]

problem solved...thanx shadow...it had to do with mcafee onconsole and it blocking a port. Somone on a different thread in this site posted the solution and i want to thank them since mcafee was blocking the port all along. Now i can finally get back to the game.

[Mirux]

I was just gonna post about McAfee but well, you did it first. :)