Configuring AirPort Extreme to Work With Blizzard Downloader

(Moslty for my own reference.) If you’re trying to download a patch of World of Warcraft, have an Apple AirPort base station, and are getting the error “Your computer appears to be behind a firewall”, these are the steps I was able to use to get it to work.

1. Open up AirPort Utility.
2. Click on your AirPort station and select “Manual Setup” from the “Base Station Menu” (or ⌘-L).
3. Click “Advanced”, and “Port Mapping”.
4. Click the “+” button.
5. Enter “3724,6112,6881-6999” into the Public and Private UDP and TCP ports, and enter your own IP address into “Private IP Address”. (To get your IP address, open up System Preferences, go to Network, click on your AirPort station, click “Advanced”, then “TCP/IP”. Your IP address is what’s listed as IPv4 Address.)
6. Click “Continue”, and name it whatever you want, then “Done”.

The Blizzard Downloader should turn green. If it doesn’t, try restarting the app.

I find myself wanting StarCraft 2 to not be an MMO

Rumors are flying that the next StarCraft will be an MMO. Blizzard’s a talented enough company that I don’t think they’re just make it “WoW in Space,” but I do have my fears. Blizzard tried to do a few online real-time strategy things with the battlegrounds in WoW, but they didn’t fit into the framework of the rest of the game and had to be significantly nerfed/retooled. Perhaps let me in StarCraft play and level up a squad of Protoss instead of just one character, or even raise an entire army that I play online. Maybe have ongoing campaigns that players join into, like what Alterac Valley was going to be originally. It didn’t work in WoW because people don’t want to join into a battle that started days ago and their side is losing, but if you desired the game with this stuff in mind, it could work.

All this makes me want to find a PC to play the Warhammer 40,000 RTS game.