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Yeah, pretty sure early in the series they discuss that the evil from the North can't pass the wall because it was made with magic, or somesuch. Paraphrasing from a few years ago.
Really? I thought everyone thinks that white walkers are just an old story to scare your children at night?
Right, and the Wildlings spent many generations going over, around, or through the wall. There's been a long need for maintaining a patrol of the wall even without any WWs around, hence the Night's Watch. If there were some actual magic that kept the WWs from crossing the wall, it is probably lost to history at this point and everyone thinks the only thing from stopping them is the size of the wall.
I mean, let's not forget that the size of the wall is ALSO still a deterrent to the WWs. Likely a lot could climb the wall, but it's not like the WWs could get their horses over the wall. They would suffer massive casualties and the Nights Watch would mow down the wights as they were trying to climb the wall. And the WWs only create more wights by new dead bodies so they wouldn't get very many new soldiers from attacking the NW until after the battle. Even without any magic, there's still a strategic advantage to having a massive wall on your side of a battle. It is certainly possible that the WWs are still biding their time for strategic purposes, not just some magic.
Hopefully we'll find out soon!