Blizzard Downloader WoesFollow

Anyone else hate the blizzard downloader as much as me?

So I get home later than usual last night. I only have about 3 hours of play time before I need to get to bed, then I realize, ahh crap they updated, I have to download a patch.

So I log on download something, have to restart WoW, log off and then the downloader starts it's business. So I go make something quick to eat, and come back, watch some tv while I wait. 100 of 159 this is going smooth almost done. 125 of 159, ok should be less than a minute left, woohoo.

155 of 159, great almost there any second now.... "Your computer is behind a firewall"... WTF!!! I've been behind a firewall from 1-155 of 159 and all of a sudden you want to stop working, you rotten *******.

Ok, no big deal I got this, turn off the firewall, log back into WoW, and log off to get the dowloader started again, flies through 1-155, hits 156... Waiting... Waiting... (Can't remember what the error message said exactly but it's basically it lost connection to the client). Oh for the love of god, what the hell, how could you lose connection when I am on the internet now reading the news (Yay for Ripken getting into the hall of fame). So I click the button that takes you to the details of the problem, says that with the message I recieved, the downloader will automatically try to recconnect, so instead of closing I let it run. Still at 156. Bam... Your computer is behind a firewall... I turned it off, what the hell.

I close the downloader and restart WoW to start the process again. This time I get to 156... then it hits 157, "no problems detected"... waiting 157.. 157... Then get the same error messages as before... Oh god damnit this is annoying.

Basically from 156 through 159 of the download for every 1, I had to close the downloader, restart the downloading process. By the time I was done, I had enough time to log onto my main, check my mailbox for auctions sold or expired, transmute my iron bar into gold for the day (24 hour cool down :-(...), then log onto my alt to dissenchant some greens and then log off. Wasn't a productive day.

Anyone else have downloader issues like this?

Well since the background downloader i dont need to download before i patch.
And the "rest" doesnt take more then 30 seconds.
Im behind a firewall and NAT router, no problems.
If you use Zone-Alarm, turning it off doesnt make it stop working, set WoW downloader program to "trusted zone" n all. If youre firewall is in youre NAT router, rerout the ports WoW and the downloader uses directly to youre computer (i dont know them, but you can config them in some file, i dont have a firewall on my NAT router).

You can always try www.gamershell.com and try to manually download the .exe from there. Although with "patch-patches" they dont put them on the site.

Edited, Jan 10th 2007 11:03am by Sjans

Yeah that thing is pissing me off. I was downloading the patch yesterday, took me at least two hours to download 100mbs with cable. It stopped at 110, telling me that it couldn't connect to server and that I was behind a firewall. And guess what? I freacking had to uninstall my firewall to download it. I hate it.

I'm on cable as well which is why I was freaking when it game me the lost connection message, because I was on the internet at the time reading the news.

This is actually the first time I had the problem, the before the storm 2.0 patch went through just fine. I was just behind schedule so to speak last night and then having to go through all that was just crap icing on the crap cake. It was just annoying as hell to have to log onto WoW, log off to get the downloader running again, then have it download all the way to 156 then have it stop, and have to rinse and repeat from 156 to 157, then from 157 to 158, then from 158 to 159. It was a bummer for sure.

I had heard that you could use a p2p file-sharing proggie, one that mainly deals with Torrents, do download Blizz patches very quickly. However, I do not have a link to the post on here so maybe someone reading this will have further info?

I had something similar happen to me last night. I believe what is happening is you are seeing what is already downloaded from the background downloader get verified. So the first 95% of the patch flies by. You aren't actually downloading anything at this point, you are just communicating how much you have downloaded. The rest of it is actual downloading and your firewall is interfering with this.

I use the free version of Zone Alarm. Blizzard shows how to make it work with the professional version but not the free one. The problem with the free version is it doesn't give you an option to open up the specific ports that the downloader uses. The easiest way to make it go faster is to shut your firewall down while using the downloader or upgrade to the professional version (or use a different firewall).

Yeah...It's craptastic


I always get the firewall issue even after I added the specific posts... even after I turned off the firewall..even after I turned off the anti-virus...even after I....zzzzzzzz

Something that popped up on another thread a couple weeks ago, entitled "Is Blizzard Downloader really needed?"

Turns out that, since the Blizzard Background Downloader is basically a bad BitTorrent client, you could go to the "cache" folder, find the torrent, and open it using whatever BitTorrent client you wished to use. I tried it out with uTorrent, and I got the pre-patch in about an hour. When the actual patch hit yesterday, it took me only about 10-15 minutes to finish the last 5% of the patch and log on.

SynnTastic, are you behind a hardware firewall? If so, are the correct ports open? Check and see if TCP ports 3724, 6112, and 6881-6999 are open/forwarded.