Yellow plug (Limited Connectivity)

Hey all,
My plug is yellow, the question is, will I still receive badges?
Also, the yellow plug is not documented.

Try it out. I have had a yellow plug once before (at school) and it did send highscores, only with a great delay. So, try to get a badge, and if it doesn’t report, you can always send a missing badge report ;)

After some searching I found out my anti-virus (AVG) was requesting permission for firefox, but the notifier wasn’t running.

weird i thought the yellow plug went away when chat got updated months ago

The yellow plug means you’re connected, but through a process called BOSH.

Originally posted by Phoenix00017:

Cliff’s Notes version, as I understand it: It lets you connect through the generally open port 80 as opposed to our now infamous ports 5222/5229 that so many people at school, work, or just paranoid at home, have blocked with routers, firewalls, etc. So, if you’re having trouble connecting to our chat server, especially if you’re in a large, shared network, there’s a decent chance BOSH will let you get through.