WoW patching...

Solari

Solari

Solari

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Just got this game and thought I'd say that this game has the most appalling patching system I've ever seen :eek: It swamps your upload bandwidth so you download at low speeds and makes a ridiculous amount of outbound connections - sometimes it seems freaking out the TCP/IP stack so much that no more can be made!

Has anyone found a way of manually patching? For now I found that just blocking the connections on the firewall helps my download speeds but this is just a vicious circle and slows others down even more.

Can't believe Blizzard are going for a BitTorrent solution when it's a paid subscription game :mad:
 
The problem doesn't lie with BitTorrent being used, it's the Blizzard implementation of BitTorrent that causes issues. If you find the .torrent file for the patch you're trying to get (it's somewhere in your WoW folder, I forget where) you can open it up in another BitTorrent client and you should find it's a *lot* faster :)

Failing that there's usually a list of patch mirrors at www.wowwiki.com
 
gamershell has all the patches, make sure you get the UK versions though.

I open the blizzard downloader, see what patch it wants to download then get it manually from gamershell.
 
Hedge said:
i always get my patches from ftp.blueyonder.co.uk :)
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Cheers for the tip.

Sent Blizzard a moaning email for what it's worth :) Like I said - using BT when you pay for a sub is more than a bit cheeky (and not to mention cheapskate!).

Got it all patched last night using uTorrent. :D
 
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