WoW's Patching System

WobbleWobble

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I'm using Shaw cable Internet and they've limited P2P traffic like BT. They installed a traffic shaper which gives BT the lowest priority leaving me with an upload speed of a few kilobytes a second. Using the "Disable peer to peer file transfer" isn't very fast either.

I'm lucky I found the first patch on a website somewhere or else it would have taken me a good half a day to download. I know this patching system seems like a good idea, but I also believe other ISPs will do the same to their P2P traffic.

Anyone else in the same boat as me?
 

WobbleWobble

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Newsgroups

a.b.games has it right now. I'm installing it hoping it's a good post.

Edit: It's good. I'm in.

"normies" wouldn't know where to look. It sucks if your ISP limits your traffic like mine :(
 

FreshCrabLegs

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Thanks for the mirror, Adam. You rock!

BTW, I owe you one of these, :beer: .

Have a Merry Christmas.
 

AdamSnow

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Originally posted by: PCMarcelino
Thanks for the mirror, Adam. You rock!

BTW, I owe you one of these, :beer: .

Have a Merry Christmas.

Just glad I could help out...

You actually owe the beer to tenchim as he supplied the link for me to get it... :D

Cheers everyone! :beer:
 

Malladine

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Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Originally posted by: PCMarcelino
Thanks for the mirror, Adam. You rock!

BTW, I owe you one of these, :beer: .

Have a Merry Christmas.

Just glad I could help out...

You actually owe the beer to tenchim as he supplied the link for me to get it... :D

Cheers everyone! :beer:
thanks Adam, i'll hit that as soon as I get home...2hrs!!

 

imported_obsidian

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WoW's patching system needs to go. This is NOT was bittorrent is intended for. You need seeds for bittorrent to work well. A patching system where no one seeds after it finishes download, and it even allows disabling of upload totally, defeats the purpose and of bittorrent. I was fine with this in beta, but there is absolutely zero reason for this system to be in place when I am paying $15/month. These guys seriously need to get on the ball and fix what is broken.
 

CarLBanks

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They have a sticky in the General forum at WoW's site. You can describe your feedback on Bittorent.
 

HostVisions

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Originally posted by: obsidian
WoW's patching system needs to go. This is NOT was bittorrent is intended for. You need seeds for bittorrent to work well. A patching system where no one seeds after it finishes download, and it even allows disabling of upload totally, defeats the purpose and of bittorrent. I was fine with this in beta, but there is absolutely zero reason for this system to be in place when I am paying $15/month. These guys seriously need to get on the ball and fix what is broken.

YUP

 

EvilManagedCare

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Adam, Tenchim, thanks for the link. The Blizzard downloader was never a problem for Battlenet, I don't know why they had to go changing it for WoW.
 

Hadsus

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Didn't have a problem.....logged into WoW last nite around 8 pm and the thing DL'd in about ten minutes.
 

Cheetah8799

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I put up another mirror of AdamSnow's file to help spread the bandwidth consumption. Same deal, please don't post all over the net. I will be removing it soon anyway.

link
 

AdamSnow

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Thanks Cheetah... :D

Glad everyone got it fast and okay... Have fun playing guys!! Cheers! :beer: