Are you able to play World of Warcraft 3 online with no problems, until you try and host your own LAN game and find you are unable to? You are not alone. It would appear that this is quite a common issue with WOW 3. Fortunately there is a quick fix that can help!

How to Solve the Problem

Try to unblock the game in your Firewall settings:

Click "Start" then "Connections" then "show all connections"

Double-click your Internet connection, and then click "Properties", then "Advanced", then "Settings ..." (Windows firewall), then click "Exceptions"

Note: You must have the file "War3" and the file "Warcraft III" listed as exceptions.

To do so, via the "exceptions" menu, click on "Add a Program", double-click on Warcraft III if it is not already in the list of exceptions.

Next click on "browse", then look after the directory where you installed open the folder and double-click the file "War3" then "OK".

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