Problems with the Blizzard Downloader!

[Yugoslav]

I have a problem with the Blizzard downloader. :cry:

The download is INCREDIBLY slow, and the bulb is yellow, with the text saying "Your compures seems to be under firewall". Yes, and then I went to do as the official Blizzard website instructs, to add the two exceptions to my Windows Service Pack 2 Firewall, but I was a little surprised about one thing - the first (3...) was already there before me ever touching it. Next to that, what totally blizzarded me completley was that there was another "Blizzard Downloader" exception, that I do not recognize at all. :shocked: In any case I added up the second Blizzard Downloader exception from the Blizzard official website (the 6... one), and I don't get it - it still says the same problem. :embarassed:

Any help? No way I'm gonna keep this downloading for more than a week or so...

[Kalos]

Are you behind a router? If so, you'd need to insert the proper port forwards into it's adminstration panel as well, it is effectively a hardware firewall. No point putting the exceptions into the weak and basic Windows one if the beefier hardware firewall is still blocking it off before it even makes it to the PC.

Alternatively, you could download the patches from a direct mirror, that's what I usually do when patching. It's faster that way, no messing around with P2P, and no strangling the upstream.

[Yugoslav]

Are you behind a router? If so, you'd need to insert the proper port forwards into it's adminstration panel as well, it is effectively a hardware firewall. No point putting the exceptions into the weak and basic Windows one if the beefier hardware firewall is still blocking it off before it even makes it to the PC.

Alternatively, you could download the patches from a direct mirror, that's what I usually do when patching. It's faster that way, no messing around with P2P, and no strangling the upstream.

Er, sorry for sounding a little ignorent (I'm Yugoslav, English is not my native language), but what does it mean to be behind a router?

I'm not referring to the patches - I'm referring to the game itself. Is there a direct mirror for it?

[Kalos]

A router is an intelligent coorindation device, the basis of most home networks. In other words, it will sit on your internet line controlling and regulating the connections doing useful things like blocking intruders, sharing out the connection between authorised users, providing Wifi, and other such stuff.

It is quite typical for routers to be used, as many of them have intergrated modems anyway while still continuing to provide the above boons. If you're on Wi-fi, you're on a router. If you've got more than one computer on your internet connection, you've almost certainly got a router. If you want to avoid being hacked you should pretty much have a router, as its firewall is far superior to that of any software you can install on your PCs (not to mention it won't be hampering your PC's performance then). Near essential home internet device.

Tell me about your internet arrangements, are the technical details handled by someone else?

As for the direct download of the game, Google turned up this: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=03AEFA7608558D17960CBB1FB4666F5B?topicId=442898505&sid=1

[Yugoslav]

A router is an intelligent coorindation device, the basis of most home networks. In other words, it will sit on your internet line controlling and regulating the connections doing useful things like blocking intruders, sharing out the connection between authorised users, providing Wifi, and other such stuff.

It is quite typical for routers to be used, as many of them have intergrated modems anyway while still continuing to provide the above boons. If you're on Wi-fi, you're on a router. If you've got more than one computer on your internet connection, you've almost certainly got a router. If you want to avoid being hacked you should pretty much have a router, as its firewall is far superior to that of any software you can install on your PCs (not to mention it won't be hampering your PC's performance then). Near essential home internet device.

Tell me about your internet arrangements, are the technical details handled by someone else?

As for the direct download of the game, Google turned up this: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=03AEFA7608558D17960CBB1FB4666F5B?topicId=442898505&sid=1

Precisely, I've got two computers on my internet connection! :grin:

[Osren]

I concur.... I've been attempting to download files from BLIZZARD for 3 days now and the speed is HORRIBLE.

Today I can't even get into worldofwarcraft.com - if I DO manage to get in the site doesn't load properly and is glitch at best.

I've tried on 2 different computers - at 2 different locations - that have 2 separate internet providers.

[Kalos]

Precisely, I've got two computers on my internet connection! :grin:
Alright, let's go from here. Who set it all up? They're the ones with the password to the Router's controls, and you'll need to access those controls to tell it to stop blocking the downloader.

[Yugoslav]

Alright, let's go from here. Who set it all up? They're the ones with the password to the Router's controls, and you'll need to access those controls to tell it to stop blocking the downloader.

I'm not sure if you mean this, but I've designed no password for my router and it's open even to my neighbors' laptop occasionally...

What precisely do I need to do?

[baj]

''What precisely do I need to do?''
get the patches in a cd-rom(downloaded from a internet-net or just a friend) and manually install them. (not a fancy solution but it will work),hehe..
i had the same problem in p2p applications, i added exceptions to firewall,then i opened ports in my router through my isp webpage and the problem remained... so i did it old school style, hehe LOL.

[Kalos]

I'm not sure if you mean this, but I've designed no password for my router and it's open even to my neighbors' laptop occasionally...

What precisely do I need to do?
It isn't the wireless access password you need, it's the control panel of the router's password. That CANNOT be blank, it'll refuse to be set to a blank. It may be on defaults, but it simply cannot be blank.

And I would set a password on your wireless access as well. Else people could download copyrighted stuff/child porn/other illigal stuff, and then the police trace it back to your connection and your name, then they chase after you. That's not so good. I'd lock it so not any freeloader or pervert can use it.

Basically log into the Router's management system (the instructions that came with the router tell you how to do this) and then add the same ports that you opened in the firewall to the Router's Port Forwarding system, and forward those ports onto your PC's IP. Oh and tell the router to designate your PC a reserved IP address (so you can do the above) by your MAC address.

It'd be great to speak with the person who set it up, really, really.

[Yugoslav]

It isn't the wireless access password you need, it's the control panel of the router's password. That CANNOT be blank, it'll refuse to be set to a blank. It may be on defaults, but it simply cannot be blank.

And I would set a password on your wireless access as well. Else people could download copyrighted stuff/child porn/other illigal stuff, and then the police trace it back to your connection and your name, then they chase after you. That's not so good. I'd lock it so not any freeloader or pervert can use it.

Basically log into the Router's management system (the instructions that came with the router tell you how to do this) and then add the same ports that you opened in the firewall to the Router's Port Forwarding system, and forward those ports onto your PC's IP. Oh and tell the router to designate your PC a reserved IP address (so you can do the above) by your MAC address.

It'd be great to speak with the person who set it up, really, really.

Will do all of that! Understood everything! :cool:

...except the "MAC address" part, but I think I'll handle when I see. :thumbsup:

[Tunga]

A MAC Address is a physically unique identifier for your specific network card or interface built into your motherboard (basically one per network port). You can check yours by going Start -> Run -> "cmd" -> [Enter] -> "ipconfig /all" -> [Enter]. It will show next to Physical Address as six pairs of hex digits. Make sure you use the one for the correct adapter if you have more than one.

[Yugoslav]

There is no option to add at the "UPnP". There is a button "Disable" and "Refresh", and that's all.

[Tunga]

Well did you open the ports as above and forward them to your machine? That was the main point.

[Yugoslav]

bah, I've decided to give up...this is obviously far too complicated...

[Yugoslav]

Well did you open the ports as above and forward them to your machine? That was the main point.

My router is TP-LINK. I have failed to find ANY information regarding it. :cry:

[Tunga]

http://www.tp-link.com/

What model?

[Yugoslav]

http://www.tp-link.com/

What model?

It is TP-WR3406.

[zodiac66]

Four + hours for a download...if I get an error installing I will be more pissed than anyone has seen me.

Good god, what were they thinking doing something like this?

[Tunga]

That model doesn't seem to exist, are you dure it's not a TL-WR340G?

[WatcherZero]

Quite often since routers need to be localised for the phone network of every country tech companies dont list all variant models on their websites.

[Yugoslav]

That model doesn't seem to exist, are you dure it's not a TL-WR340G?

My bad, you are correct.

[Kalos]

Here is the instruction manual in English: http://www.tp-link.com/english/soft/2008613144962.pdf

Use Tunga's method from page 2 to get your MAC Address on your wireless adapter. Then read section 3.9 of the Manual on MAC Address binding to your IP.

Once you've got the Wireless MAC address bound to a consistant IP (you choose the number, but I advice you choose a typical one such as the one the PC already uses) we can then reference that IP in Port Forwarding exercise, as we now have confirmed and locked in that the IP is now equal and the same as your PC.

The 3.7.1 'Virtual Servers' section of the manual seems to be the right place to look at for achieving what we need in terms of opening the correct ports and forwarding them onto an IP.