That last patch was brutal.

[Le GoogelGuRu]

I downloaded it, at a maximum of anywhere between 1.50kb/s and 4kb/s. 247MB at that speed. (Thanks, Blizzard) All I was getting were P2P connections, nothing from the HTTP server. Anyone else have horrible speeds with the latest (pre)-patch through the background downloader?

I don't know when it's gonna be officialy released but I just tried to get it before patch day. After a few nights of leaving the internet running, it's finally finished.

[Etrin]

well the last big patch I was saying the same thing. But on the day of the server patch and upgrades going live I finished the dl at over 150KB so I guess now is just something to get us going.

What I find more weird is that my ul is greater than my dl.
Not speed but total bytes transfered..
THAT IS WEIRD..what the ASDF is buzzard dl off my machine?

[necrogue]

...
What I find more weird is that my ul is greater than my dl.
Not speed but total bytes transfered..
THAT IS WEIRD..what the ASDF is buzzard dl off my machine?

The same patch that you are downloading, packet by packet, it uploads it to anyone else that is requesting the file. Hence the P2P part of the Blizzard downloader.

[snrofgar]

I took 12 hours to get to 9% with blizz downloader. come patch day im just going to get it off filefront /mirror site

[memetootoo]

It took me 15 for the whole thing :p

[Foonyak]

The background downloader is supposed to do just that exact thing. Download the ginormous patch at a very slow speed over a period of a week or so. That way, while it's downloading at such a slow rate, you can play more WoW, or do anything else for that matter, without it disrupting your time online with lag.

[xxlebox]

The same patch that you are downloading, packet by packet, it uploads it to anyone else that is requesting the file. Hence the P2P part of the Blizzard downloader.

which is clearly very dumb, since you can download it from lots of sites, way faster ;)

[Azaghdal]

If you want to download the larger files at a much higher speed, then do this...

1- Download your favorite torrent package (I like uTorrent)
2- Follow the torrent package instructions to modify any configurations in the program (i.e. port #, etc)
3- Start the Background Downloader app from Blizz, let it run for a few seconds, and then cancel/exit. This builds the necessary torrent file used in step 4.
4- From your torrent package, browse to "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Cache\BackgroundDownload.torrent"
5- Start the torrent and watch your speeds jump!

I've used this method anytime the patch files were large. It is kinda pointless when they are less than 5 or 10MB, but could still be used for those. With this I average around 600k.

Hope you find this useful!
-Az

[Aeras]

So, is this patch going live next Tuesday?

[Le GoogelGuRu]

No clue... I thought it would be out today.

[Gorny]

It's supposedly comming out this comming Tuesday.

Headache time for many people ):