patch appears to be behind a firewall

[drinka]

I downloaded the prepatch fine, I get to WOW and it says WOW must install the patch and restart. So the blizzard downloader fires up, verifies the patch then tries to start downloading the wow-patch. At this point the program hangs (at 83%) and after awhile the program says it appears that I am behind a firewall. I have no firewalls, and I've turned the windows firewall off.

Is there any way to manually download the patch? I'm fairly computer savvy but I can't for the life of me figure out whats wrong.

[Eltank]

I have the exact same problem stays at 83% 126 megs downloaded then after a while says you are behind a firewall, I turned all my firewalls off. Please Help

Eltank

[tnoe]

Same here. I'm not behind any type of firewall yet it continues to say that I am. I also get stuck at exactly 83% at 126 megs. This is beginning to piss me off so any help would be great.

[Grimmthorn]

are you guys using a router?

[tnoe]

I am. I have already tried the TCP ports that Blizzard suggested and it hasn't helped any.

[UgTug]

It stopped at 83 for me also, but I just waited like 10 minutes and enabled P2P transfer and got it eventually.

After applying the patch all the servers are down though.

Might as well wait

[Threch]

Count me in this boat. No firewall active, removed router, restarted everything up to and including my brain. I even removed Google toobar as the tips provided by Blizzard recommended. Still no luck

I installed WoW just 2 days ago and got through all the previous updates fine. Nothing has changed on my system since then. What is different about this new patch? Is this possibly due to the 5 million people all mobing to download it at once?

[Bigairbrucey]

Same boat ....83%

and ofcourse Worldofwarcraft.com is down

[ninjakoi]

Also hung at 126mb, 83%. UGH. Husband is a major techie geek, his only advice is to wait, there's just too many people trying to dl at the same time. It's gonna be a lonnnnnnng afternoon. lol

[Threch]

I finaly made it past the timeouts to get into the official WoW forum. In short, thousands of people are experiencing this and it seems to be something on WoW's end. Many people are reporting that they are able to successfully update by leaving it sitting for a couple hours. After leaving it sitting 30 mins past getting the firewall message, it finaly went up to 2kbs for a bit then stoped again. I'm all the way up to 1.2 mb downloaded past the point which it complains about a firewall. There are also aparantly full versions of this patch available for download at Filefront and possibly other locations but I haven't looked into this myself.

As Ninjakoi's husband said above, it is probably just due to so many people crowding into line combined with a poorly coded firewall detector.

Edit: This link was posted on the WoW forums by DavidHC, an employee, so it should be legit. I haven't tried it myself yet.
http://www.fileplanet.com/150253/150000/fileinfo/World-of-Warcraft-Patch---v1.11-

[laythor]

Just let it sit and stew.
I had waited about 30 mins with the patch hung up at the same place everyone else seems to be having an issue. I kept that open while i went around and started looking at mirrors. At the same time I was about to shell out some money to pay for the download, the blizzard updater started working... took another 15 minutes to download the last 17% and then another 15-20 mins to install.
Now I have wow, but of course most of the realms are still down.
Go Go Blizzard!

[Deathseeker]

Same prob here, 83% 126 mb dl'd. I use PC-Cillin 2006 but I have been able to download past updates. I tried turning it off but still nothing, luckily I finally have a problem that thousands of others have as well lol.

[CCMCornell]

I was getting the "firewall" warning as well even though I forwarded all the recommended ports from my router. According to the downloader's log, it kept saying the that I couldn't connect to the tracker. I gave up at around 48% when the fileplanet download popped after about one hour of waiting on the queue. The fileplanet patch is over 400 MB and came in at about 400kb/s. The 1.10->1.11 patch from Blizzard (and one of the other mirrors listed on the wow.net front page) is only 150 MB, but the download speeds were just too slow.

[Popper]

Yeah I was so hard up to get through this mess, I bought a subsciption. It donloaded fine, but... The blizzarrd downloader still pops up when I try to start wow. Did not fix the issue.

[rabidstoat]

Don't worry about the firewall warning, if you know you're not behind one. I downloaded the patch successfully (took about 90 minutes) through the Blizzard downloader and am installing it now. The whole time I was downloading it said "you seem to be behind a firewall", even though I'd turned my firewall off. I was behind a linksys router (which has a hardware firewall), but I was still downloading.

If you want to see how your download is going, look under the Advanced menu of the downloaded. One option is called 'Log'. I used that, and saw a bunch of lines where it looked like I wasn't connecting to diddly squat. Every once in a while I'd connect, I'd disconnect, attempt connection again, etc. I still was able to download with all that mess going on.

There's another option, I think under the Advanced menu, something like Connections. I don't have the downloader up now to see. However, if you open it, you get a table that lists IP addresses on the left (hopefully some are there), and columns with upload speed, upload total, download speed, download total. Then in the upper left you can see how much you've downloaded, and how much you've uploaded.

Blizzard's downloaded is based on bit torrent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_torrent) technology. It's a way to distribute large files. Instead of everyone downloading it from Blizzard's servers, some people get it from there, but then people get it from whatever.

Suppose the patch was cut in half. And suppose you had the first half of it, and I had the second half. Then I could download my missing half from you, and you could download your missing half from me. That's basically how bit torrent works, except the file is divided into very small chunks. Once you download a few of them, you can start uploading to other people while you download even more. And the program handles it all automatically.

So if you watch connections you can see what IP address of other players you're uploading to, and downloading from. After 75 minutes I was still at 84%. Then I got a download connection from someone that was like 80 KB/sec. I downloaded up to 99% really fast. Then that connection dropped, and it took a while for me to find a connection that had the last bit of the patch I needed to download. That explains why sometimes your download zooms along after doing nothing forever, and why sometimes it stops dead in its tracks.

[ChaosSaber]

I also sat staring at the downloader at about 83% for about half an hour and then suddenly it just took off and started downloading at close to 128kb/s. It also said I was behind a firewall although my system firewalls were off (but I am behind two routers). It seems the best answer is patience. Waiting for it to go was still faster than waiting in line on file planet for an hour for a patch I already have 83% of.

[klago]

Blizzard's downloaded is based on bit torrent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_torrent) technology. It's a way to distribute large files. Instead of everyone downloading it from Blizzard's servers, some people get it from there, but then people get it from whatever.


Your ubergeekyness impresses me. I have no idea why blizzard doesn't just provide the torrent links and people can use whatever client they want if they so choose. The default can still be the suck ass blizzard one.

I love how I can get utorrent configured with my router and firewall, get around packet shaping, yet I can't figure out this update utility?

Give me a break.

[Gameliel]

Here's the problem, folks. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/21) ;)