Great Wait 2005 - Put beta site/server updates here please - Admin

Mr_Tristen · 08-01-2005, 01:16 PM

So after waiting for 18 long long months, I am now hours away from experiencing World of Warcraft, but find myself staring at a progress bar whos progress is so slow you cant even notice it change, yeup, its the Final Beta Blizzard Downloader. Started literally the minute it was released last night but I'm still sitting at 63%, ETA 6-8 hours depending on how the speed comes out. Its been good the last few hours, but fell really low during about 1am-5am.

Anyone able to get it any faster? I have a 2mb line but the blizzard downloader just won't seem to send at a steady high speed (and yes I've allowed others to upload from me).

To the rest of you waiting, I wish you luck and hope your come out of this with more of your sanity than I.

See you in Azeroth, eventually!

Xeodus · 08-01-2005, 01:17 PM

I'm getting MAX 30kb's on a 1mb line so I guess it's turn off screen and go to the pub time...

Lumirage · 08-01-2005, 01:18 PM

You shouldve used the torrent link from http://www.wowtorrents.de.vu/
I got it there within 6 hours, I'm sitting on 2.5Mbit and I wasn't even downloading full speed.
I hear people are downloading from there now full speed so maybe that's even faster for you.

Mr_Tristen · 08-01-2005, 01:20 PM

ooooooh 64% :eek:

Scid · 08-01-2005, 01:26 PM

Downloaded the entire game in about an hour from an ftp :)
(4mb line)

Pirenarosa · 08-01-2005, 01:27 PM

I wouldn't worry too much about how long it's taking at the moment. The account creation pages for the final beta aren't up yet, and I'd be very surprised if they went up this weekend.

You should be in as early as possible as long as your download finishes sometime tomorrow, and considering you're at 64% after less than a day, I'd say you'll have it finished by then. ;)

Mr_Tristen · 08-01-2005, 01:28 PM

Fantatic idea.... but where from :confused:

Think I might put it up for others to d/l if I can be arsed later, have a few hundred GB of bandwidth thats not used at the moment, can let atleast a few people have it.

NotAgain · 08-01-2005, 01:33 PM

Although I'm a closed tester I've downloaded the game and am continueing to upload it through bitorrent. Hope it helps a little, the thing is its no where near my max upload limit though I haven't capped it.

Oh well, every megabyte counts I guess :)

Carnor · 08-01-2005, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Lumirage

You shouldve used the torrent link from http://www.wowtorrents.de.vu/
I got it there within 6 hours, I'm sitting on 2.5Mbit and I wasn't even downloading full speed.
I hear people are downloading from there now full speed so maybe that's even faster for you.

Got it from this address before christmas, all the blizzard downloader did on my computer was to check the files, that didnt take more than a few seconds :)

Doesnt harm to be prepared ;)

Squarebob Spongepants · 08-01-2005, 03:19 PM

I've had the client downloaded, installed and patched since before christmas. I'm ready and itching to go :D