I'm trying to start playing on Lordaeron at the suggestion of a friend, I've so far downloaded the game client (both new and old) via bit torrent from this website, and the megawhatsist version someone linked in the forum. Whenever I log on no matter the version I've downloaded (using wow.exe yes, not the launcher) it offers to suggest a server and then shows me a realmlist without any realms.
I've triple checked my realmlist.wtf (set realmlist logon.warmane.com set patchlist logon.warmane.com) and made sure I'm running in administrator mode. I am not playing on a proxy server nor am I in a strange country.
I also copy pasted the realmlist from the /world of warcraft file over to /wow/data/enUS because I read something else on the forum that made it sound like the realmlist should be in that file and not in the main directory. Nothing's worked. I don't understand what I am doing wrong.