I've been dowloading this 144MB monster for over 18 hours, and I'm only 13% done. Does anyone have a good mirror site? I tried File Planet - it's not there.
Edited, Dec 24th 2006 10:20pm by ohmikeghod
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bump. I'm at 14% now.
When did you get this? I just logged on and recieved no notification of such patch.
My patcher has been going 24/7 for the last couple days and I'm only at 20% right now.
Every time I check the connection info it asys I'm not downloading anything or things will just stop. First patch to have this issue, but I opened up the needed ports and whatnot, but alas that didn't help either.
Every time I check the connection info it asys I'm not downloading anything or things will just stop. First patch to have this issue, but I opened up the needed ports and whatnot, but alas that didn't help either.
MYteddy wrote:
When did you get this? I just logged on and recieved no notification of such patch.
Check your options at the loader screen. You can have the background downloader active when in the game, out of the game, or both. Icon in taskbar when active.
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Yea, try 0%. Seriously, this is worse than the last one. I hope this don't continue.
H.I.M. Shador VIII
H.I.M. Shador VIII
The background downloader is supposed to consume almost no bandwith and run in... the background. Let it run and forget about it.
Is this update coming out tomorrow or something?
Personally, I turned off the background downloader as it eats up bandwidth and system resources. For me, Blizzard's downloaders has been very fast the past few patches (100kb/sec average once it gets going). Just make sure your firewall isn't blocking it and it's smooth (at least for me).
RPZip wrote:
The background downloader is supposed to consume almost no bandwith and run in... the background. Let it run and forget about it.
Or you could start it, stop it, open your cache folder, and open the .torrent from there with a normal (read good) BT program and download it much quicker then the POS background downloader. Once they changed up the downloader to throttle back from just going all out and being a huge connection hog it isn't so bad, but it is still just totally butchered and , imo, a pos.
Using an external program(I use UTorrent) worked wonders. Finished in only a few minutes.
Don't know why i hadn't thought of doing that before.
Don't know why i hadn't thought of doing that before.
Wow, they should really post that tip on the Oboards. Seems like every patch, the downloader gets worse and worse. Come to think of it, I'm going to go post a suggestion that I hope they listen to to the effect of having an option in the downloader that says "Use X program to download file".
edit:BTW, as a side note, thought I'd mention this for anyone doing this and has no idea how to use the patch file (it's been a long weekend, had to think for a second on it), it's made to just copy the patch folder into your worldofwarcraft folder (correct me if I'm wrong, btw, but that should be right....)
Edited, Dec 26th 2006 12:15am by CrimsonNeko
edit:BTW, as a side note, thought I'd mention this for anyone doing this and has no idea how to use the patch file (it's been a long weekend, had to think for a second on it), it's made to just copy the patch folder into your worldofwarcraft folder (correct me if I'm wrong, btw, but that should be right....)
Edited, Dec 26th 2006 12:15am by CrimsonNeko
Tomec the Wise wrote:
RPZip wrote:
The background downloader is supposed to consume almost no bandwith and run in... the background. Let it run and forget about it.
Or you could start it, stop it, open your cache folder, and open the .torrent from there with a normal (read good) BT program and download it much quicker then the POS background downloader. Once they changed up the downloader to throttle back from just going all out and being a huge connection hog it isn't so bad, but it is still just totally butchered and , imo, a pos.
Any suggestions for a torrent downloader?
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uTorrent FTW. Got patch in under 2 hours. Don't forget to set the port to 3724 and the download location to your WoW folder.
H.I.M. Shador VIII
Edited, Dec 26th 2006 11:42am by ShadorVIII
Edited, Dec 26th 2006 11:48am by ShadorVIII
H.I.M. Shador VIII
Edited, Dec 26th 2006 11:42am by ShadorVIII
Edited, Dec 26th 2006 11:48am by ShadorVIII
Utorrent for those who are asking about a good torrent client.
First, there pretty mch hundreds of torrent clients out there... most function about the same. That said though...
UTorrent is a good beginers torrent client, and is all around stable and not that resource intensive. Azureus is another good/common one. It is Java based, so it is a little more resource intensive, but it has a good deal of features and a good GUI. Those two are probably the more common ones you'll find people using.
UTorrent is a good beginers torrent client, and is all around stable and not that resource intensive. Azureus is another good/common one. It is Java based, so it is a little more resource intensive, but it has a good deal of features and a good GUI. Those two are probably the more common ones you'll find people using.
Thanks for the tips guys. Torrents is one thing I never got into, so I'm literally a newb at it. I got the patch downloaded and put into the /patch folder.
CrimsonNeko wrote:
edit:BTW, as a side note, thought I'd mention this for anyone doing this and has no idea how to use the patch file (it's been a long weekend, had to think for a second on it), it's made to just copy the patch folder into your worldofwarcraft folder (correct me if I'm wrong, btw, but that should be right....)
You can't install the patch until Blizzard updates the WoW client itself telling it to install said patch. In other words, don't worry about it, it'll install when it's needed.
I opened up the patch torrent file in uTorrent... it's downloading very slow, and I'm uploading a lot. Bleah.
Blizz needs to open up a large FTP server or something to seed, instead of relying solely on peers.
Blizz needs to open up a large FTP server or something to seed, instead of relying solely on peers.
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uTorrent will let you control the download and upload speeds. I personally set DL to Unlimited and UL to 10. This works good.
H.I.M. Shador VIII
H.I.M. Shador VIII
Yeah, I know. I only have one other torrent seeding at the moment, so it's not a big deal.
I don't get it, really... it would be very cheap for a large company like Blizzard to get a couple of 100mbit servers, which seed like lightning.
I don't get it, really... it would be very cheap for a large company like Blizzard to get a couple of 100mbit servers, which seed like lightning.
Makaro wrote:
I don't get it, really... it would be very cheap for a large company like Blizzard to get a couple of 100mbit servers, which seed like lightning.
7 million subscribers with a 144MB patch is a LOT of bandwidth to go through. The reason the download is going so slow is because it's throttled down so that it doesn't have a drastic impact on people with slower connections.
A lot of people, even with the slow speed background downloader, are able to get the patch entirely downloaded before the patch is actually released. It helps a lot on patch days.
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