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/150253/150...Patch---v1.11-