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*Ding* 1%... Anyways about Vamporia.. how about we call it "Cramporia," this way it associats both of our names and doesn't scare off all those half-civil people out there, ey?

Sounds like it might be small but it should work. We need more recruits though, my pet penguin cant hold up for much longer keeping the province of my neighboors lawn under our control.

so like....what do we do when its done downloading, has anyone gotten to that point? oh and i need an account but yeah, the link is bad

guys, just cancel your download until I'm done, then you can resume ;) lol

Wow guys this is awesome! :D

So after this we can get a username and what not right?

...Wow, I got up, got a bowl of "Cinnamon Toast Crunch" came back.. and.. as I took a bite of the ceral, 2%, //Plans on getting 100 bowls of cereal.. and taking one bite of each//

Hmmhmm...what to do what to do.. while.. I wait...

1% o.o 20KB/s Go Go Go

Romulux, that's a bad idea. You obviously don't understand how Bit-Torrent works. A Bit-Torrent tracker increases in overall speed as more people join the network. As far as I can tell, there are maybe one or two seeds from Blizzard on the torrent, who are sending the files to all the thousands of people who found the early open beta link.

People who download more of the beta, end up uploading the pieces of the beta they have to those who don't have it. It's like internet communism at its finest. In fact, if everyone canceled their download until you were done (I know it's a joke), it would take even longer.

The fastest way to get the open beta is if all of you start it and leave it on. The initial speed will be terrible because the seeds will be doing the majority of the distribution but once more people get a larger amount of the data, speeds will begin to pick up. Sometimes to an insane amount.

As for the whole uploading speed thing, the more you upload to people on the tracker, the more connections the tracker will open up to other people allowing you to download more. It's called "anti-leeching" and it's built into the Bit-Torrent protocol.

oh yeah i didnt realize that it was a bittorrent file. that would by why my dl has slowed down now not as many people to dl the client from. oh well i will keep mine open over night when i am done so people can leach my T1 banwith to hell

check wow's beta site and you'll see they've just opened the stress test... the file you're downloading is the same file available from fileplanet... but as far as i can tell you need a key to be able to actually log in and play... and to have that you need to shell out the 16 bucks for a fileplanet subscription (blizzard isn't handing out ids until "late in the week") so if you wanna use that 2.5 gigs you're downloading, i'd recommending shelling out... or not.

EDIT: i'm getting the 2.5 gigs at a rate of about 3 mbps... which means i should be logging in in two hours.... so i would recommend fileplanet even more than downloading the torrents and waiting for the free accounts.

Edited, Mon Nov 1 16:31:29 2004 by sheapearce

ok so let me get this strait. to play WoW for the FREE stress test they are going to make us pay for a file plannet subscription. they have got to be kidding me. Is anyone sure that if we dont pay for file plannet we cant play? i mean no one as far as i know has made it to 100% on the dl yet so maybe somehow we can

wow so many posts it seems like lots of people are "getting out of the closet" and becomming wow freaks

Creamed, be glad you woke at 3. I just got up and it's around 5:30.

100 had to do it !!