*Dead* WOW Open Beta Now avail on official site

[Gothgar]

the reason it is so slow is because ISPs throttle bitorrent's port...

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Gothgar
the reason it is so slow is because ISPs throttle bitorrent's port...

not true, i bt other stuff at 150kb/sec

 

[JasonK]

The reason its slow is because the dam program maxes out your upload, therefore your download will suffer because your upload pipe does not have enough room to ackknowledge the download packets.

 

[imported_jfgeiger]

I sent the tech support and email about that. (using max upload)

If that is their plan for getting updates and patches to users, it needs to be fixed ASAP.

Please be sure to send them a complaint as well.

Thanks.

 

[drakkdrakk]

Originally posted by: TSx
I picked up a program called DU Super Controller ( link ) which has a 14 day trial for free. Simple install, run the program, select the blizzard downloader in the program list, change the upload to whatever speed you want; I put mine at 25k/sec and it worked great, my upload went at 25k/sec and download stayed around 350k/sec.

<3 <3

now i can do stuff on the computer again! yay

 

[JasonK]

Full Client file now available through file planet, free dl. Long wait lines tho, prolly still better then this torrent pos blizzard decided to use

 

[onza]

getting the whole file from a roommate at 800k

w00t

 

[Shyatic]

When you guys get it installed... it rules so you will really enjoy it

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: mplogic
heh, me too codeyf. Pretty cool game, they also named the official release date of Nov. 23 I believe for retail. I read somewhere that the stress test almost brought down file planet's servers as 81,000 people tried to download all at once, no surprise that the open beta download is slow as that.

Actually, it IS surprising, since it's a torrent... where the more = the merrier.

 

[ElFenix]

what server are yall on?

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Downloading over newsgroups are the best.

 

[KAMAZON]

I was able to get into fileplanet through a backdoor and download the full thing in 2.5 HRS. going to see how it runs when i get home.

 

[globalcitizen]

well I just went over my college's bandwidth limit (3GB) to get this. Guess I have to wait another day before I start playing.

How is the server loads like?

 

[rodizzle]

nice...thanks

 

[rodizzle]

umm..does anyone know if you have to pay any fees for the beta testing?

 

[policy11]

faq says:
Will you charge people to play the open beta?
No, the World of Warcraft open beta is absolutely free. Blizzard is not charging a fee for you to play the open beta.

 

[Smackattack]

ahahahaha, ive been in since alpha. You guys never had the joy of trying to pull down the 2gig downloads using the torrent clients.

Some people may be getting slow downloads because they are behind a router, google up bittorrent and routers and you will find some ports you need to open to make bittorrent sing.

also, kick down your settings to modem so that the client doesnt saturate your bandwidth uploading.

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Smackattack
ahahahaha, ive been in since alpha. You guys never had the joy of trying to pull down the 2gig downloads using the torrent clients.

Some people may be getting slow downloads because they are behind a router, google up bittorrent and routers and you will find some ports you need to open to make bittorrent sing.

also, kick down your settings to modem so that the client doesnt saturate your bandwidth uploading.

its better now, as matter of fact, i have d/l over 300gig with bt....

it was slow because there weren't many seeds if any at all...now there is 5-6 seeds there....

 

[Splork]

Is anyone else getting a "Download Expired" message when trying to dl'd?

-sp

 

[Cadop]

I am, and have no idea how to fix it. It doesn't mention anyhting about that on their help website.

 

[Splork]

I wonder if the BETA is now closed. It's kind of annoying, but what can you do when it's free? lol

-sp

 

[Drizzy]

I get that message.. good communication that this thing is over...

 

[silent tone]

Working Link

 

[Cadop]

Sweet, thanks!

 

[Drizzy]

Originally posted by: istallion
Working Link

Geez where is that dling from? It estimates I will be 1 day 10 hours to DL! Its ranging from 6kb/sec to 25kb/sec... nowhere near the 100-120 I average...