Universities usually protect their networks with firewalls. In most cases these cannot be opened by you the user. You'll have to consult a technician at your University to see if a workaround is possible. In reality, getting Warp Pipe to work on certain restrictive networks may even be a little harder than opening these ports depending on any packet shaping policies the network administrator has put into place. For reference when consulting with University network administrators Warp Pipe needs access to port 4000, both UDP and TCP protocols.

Unfortunately, in most cases, firewalls/proxies cannot simply be disabled in order to allow you to use Warp Pipe. Disabling the firewall / proxy will not open the necessary ports. It will simply shut down the firewall/proxy and leave the ports closed. Also, many factors may conflict with your firewall: Internet Connection Sharing, the use of more than one firewall, or your operating system may all cause conflicts that keep you from enjoying Warp Pipe. To work around these issues, you will need to consult the documentation of your firewall/proxy.

We do not recommend shutting down your firewall. Shutting down will open up all ports, not just the port required to run Warp Pipe, and should only be used as a last resort. Instead, you need to configure it to allow access to Warp Pipe. This is usually called "giving permission," and can be accomplished quickly by following these steps:

• Black Ice - Set the security level to low.
• ZoneAlarm - The best course of action for ZoneAlarm, in our experience, is to make sure it allows your online applications. Make sure that, when you open Arcade and ZoneAlarm alerts you that WarpPipe.exe or WarpPipe.app (on Mac) is trying to access the Internet, you allow it to do so, and check the box to "remember this application." It will ask again later if you want to allow the downloading of config files. Again, tell it to allow it and remember. You can still leave ZoneAlarm on medium to high security. But don't forget that it will also want to ask for your permission for each and every game you play the first time you start it up. If not told to allow your game and remember your settings, you will again encounter difficulties.
  
  Alternately, but less effective, set ZoneAlarm to recognize Warp Pipe as a part of your Local Network and set both local and Internet settings to "Low."
• Norton Internet Security 2002 - NIS2002 is really quite simple. All it takes is giving Warp Pipe permission. Do not attempt to provide Custom Settings. Upon an access request prompt, simply grant Warp Pipe Internet access. If your firewall is not listed.

A router is a device that splits a broadband connection and forwards data packets from the internet to a group of computers or other devices that use your Internet connection, like your GameCube. Since a router allows more than one device to share one IP Address, it uses something called Network Address Translation (NAT) to split the connection and forward incoming data ports to specific devices connected to the router. Since Warp Pipe requires data on a specific port to be directed to the PC or Mac running Warp Pipe, you must configure your router accordingly. The diagram below shows how a router takes a broadband Internet connection using one IP address and splits it using Network Address Translation (NAT) to create a Local Area Network (LAN).

Since incoming game data needs to be routed to the PC or Mac running Warp Pipe, you must properly configure your router to forward all UDP and TCP data packets on port 4000 to the IP address of the PC or Mac running Warp Pipe.

To find the IP address of the computer on your network running Warp Pipe, perform the following steps (platform specific).

Windows:
1. Click Start > Run
2. In the Run box, type "cmd" for Windows XP, 2000 users; "command" for Windows 98, NT 4, and ME users
3. When the command line terminal appears, type in "ipconfig"

Mac OS X:
1. Click Apple > About This Mac
2. Click "More Info" to open system profiler
3. Once system profiler is open, click "network"

Linux / BSD:
1. Open a Terminal
2. Type "/sbin/ifconfig"

Once you have found the IP address of the PC or Mac that is running Warp Pipe, you must now go into your router’s config panel and forward port 4000 (both UDP and TCP protocols) to the IP address you just found. In order to make this easier, we have gathered a list of popular routers with links to their respective documentation which should help you login to your router’s config panel. Please note that different routers have different terminology in their config panel when referencing port forwarding such as creating "Virtual Servers". Some routers also allow you to forward one protocol per port at a time; therefore you may need to create one entry for UDP port 4000 and another for TCP port 4000. Please make note of these discrepancies and read carefully.