QuizBowl PRO Online is hosted in the cloud using AWS (Amazon Web Services). The following ports must be unblocked in order for the system to function properly:
1. Port 80
2. Port 443.
3. Port 3000 (a port used by Amazon Web Services, where we host the system)
4. Port 4000 (wss://online.quizbowlsystems.com:4000 <http://online.quizbowlsystems.com:4000>)
The first 3 are well known and usually unblocked anyway, but the 4th one - a socket URL that handles host-player interaction - is specific to QuizBowl PRO. Please check with your organization's IT department to make sure that all 4 ports are unblocked.
Use the following link to test your connection to QuizBowl PRO Online:
If you’re using a laptop under your control, you’ll probably be fine. If it’s a school PC, we might need to involve IT to get through the installation, so here’s some information for them: You will need to have full read/write privileges from the installation folder down through all the program’s subfolders.