Pig Loves Cow

Uncontrollable lag? Sucky ISP? Blocked by firewalls? A solution to these annoyances…TUNNEL!

Okay, so my boyfriend Mark has been having ridiculous pings on his WoW client. We decided to try tunneling it through my PC (which would serve as the socks server) and check if he gets less latency/lag.

All we needed was the following:

1. My server: A PC that runs ubuntu
   • Socks Server 5 (will discuss later how to install this)
   • A Tunnel Manager (gSTM)
2. The Client: Mark’s PC
   • WoW client installed (of course!)
   • SockscapV2
   • PuTTY

I used this guide to install Socks Server 5 (SS5) on my Ubuntu machine. gSTM can be installed using Synaptic or Add/Remove Applications. I then had to make sure that my socks port can be accessed from the internet, so I set up the Port Forwarding on my router to direct all 1080 and 1890 ports (1080 is the default port for socks server, but the guide uses 1890 to prevent malicious people for taking advantage of your open port) to my internal IP.

On Mark’s side (client side), he installed SockscapV2to act as a wrapper for Wow’s proxy/socks server, and PuTTY to tunnel the socks requests to my computer via SSH.

PuTTY SSH

Putty Tunnel