World Of Warcraft
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Soldato
The installer Tome.MPQ is the last 100Mb you need.
Head over to here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors
You want: 3.3.x → 4.0.1.12911 Final Stage-4 (~72 MiB)
Pick any of the EU PC mirrors. It may take a couple to find one that gives you decent speeds/you can download without queueing, and so on. I found the sourcearchive one to be extremely quick just now.
Once you have the zip, close the blizzard updater, extract it into the update folder in WoW and start the updater again, it shouldn't need anything else.
Plus, the patch includes a new updater that works differently, so hopefully the problem you're having won't stick around with the new patcher. Because after this patch there's another 1.6Gb patch, and that isn't available as a seperate download yet, it has to be done through their new patcher. Good luck!
Soldato
Personally, the first thing I would do is uncheck the port options in your virtual servers tab of the router setup.
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Mate that's strange, I downloaded the WoW client and got the new cataclysm downloader, rather than the old wotlk one. Doubt there's much difference in download speeds between the two tho
The installer Tome.MPQ is the last 100Mb you need.
Head over to here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors
You want: 3.3.x → 4.0.1.12911 Final Stage-4 (~72 MiB)
Pick any of the EU PC mirrors. It may take a couple to find one that gives you decent speeds/you can download without queueing, and so on. I found the sourcearchive one to be extremely quick just now.
Once you have the zip, close the blizzard updater, extract it into the update folder in WoW and start the updater again, it shouldn't need anything else.
Plus, the patch includes a new updater that works differently, so hopefully the problem you're having won't stick around with the new patcher. Because after this patch there's another 1.6Gb patch, and that isn't available as a seperate download yet, it has to be done through their new patcher. Good luck!
I've downloaded part 4 and now using the updater within it to update and other things, I think its the 1.6Gb patch which you speak about.
Thanks iviv
It may change matey after this 1.6Gb patch i am downloading now
I unchecked them last night and it made no difference through out the night
Soldato
It won't make a difference to downloading files of the Internet.
If your updating files through you WoW client now, and it's working, then it was a strange problem indeed.
If your updating files through you WoW client now, and it's working, then it was a strange problem indeed.
The WoW downloader uses the bittorrent protocol, so setting up port forwarding in virtual servers is pretty much a requirement for it to work reliably.
If he's turned peer-to-peer downloads off though it doesn't really matter.
Soldato
Yes.
Peer to Peer seems to drain your bandwidth more, so I never use it now.
Note: I'm actually not 100% sure this is the case, I use Vuze to download some stuff via torrents and have no problems whatsoever, so I think the WoW launchers Peer-to-peer technology is dodgy.
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