WoW Patch and firewall

[Bezinator]

Hi there,

I saw last night that blizzard put a update out for WoW, my launcher downloaded stuff and when i exit'd wow it left the background downloader on.

I came back this morning and it had not moved from 0% percent downloaded.

Ive never had this problem before as i could download the massive 300meg + patch from '05.

I have added like laucher.exe and blizzarddownloader.exe to my firewall list.. has anyone got any ideas?

Ta,
B

 

[Tute]

Yeah, I managed to get it to work by putting my IP into the "DMZ" list on my router.

Not sure what it does, but the download worked.

It's a lot easier to just wait and download manually anyway

 

[Mindriot]

I had this also last night, but will have to wait until later to try again

btw DMZ is basically putting your computer outside the firewalls protection, so is usually not recommended for extended periods of time, but it does suggest that its a port forwarding problem