Paste the complete output when you try to ping that domain - is your machine at least getting as far as resolving the name to an IP, or is it the DNS request that's timing out?
It could, but unless you're running a server you don't need to forward ports for WoW.
There's no such thing - they both use ICMP.
Hey, thanks for replying.
Pinging eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com [80.239.178.113] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 80.239.178.113:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
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Tracing route to eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com [80.239.178.113]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 50 ms 22 ms 25 ms spruce.dsl.enta.net [84.45.242.72]
3 22 ms 23 ms 23 ms vlan4001.global-switch.dsl.enta.net [84.45.242.6
5]
4 23 ms 24 ms 23 ms gi3-8.telehouse-east.dsl.enta.net [84.45.242.50]
5 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms te5-2.telehouse-east.core.enta.net [62.249.192.1
21]
6 23 ms 24 ms 23 ms te5-1.telecity-hex.core.enta.net [87.127.236.102
]
7 22 ms 24 ms 23 ms ldn-tch-i2-link.telia.net [213.248.84.109]
8 23 ms 24 ms 23 ms ldn-tch-i1-link.telia.net [80.91.250.217]
9 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms ldn-b1-link.telia.net [80.91.250.209]
10 24 ms 23 ms 25 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.248.90]
11 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms prs-bb1-pos6-0-0.telia.net [213.248.64.9]
12 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms prs-b1-link.telia.net [80.91.250.253]
13 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms prs-tc-i1-link-telia.net [80.91.250.30]
14 * * * Request timed out.
14-30 hops is the same.