is it something wrong with my PC? every single WoW patch i download takes 5-6 hours because im "behind a firewall" even though i've disabled it countless times for the patch downloads.
any ideas on how to sort this out?
nick
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is it something wrong with my PC? every single WoW patch i download takes 5-6 hours because im "behind a firewall" even though i've disabled it countless times for the patch downloads.
any ideas on how to sort this out?
nick
Go to http://download.utorrent.com/1.6/utorrent.exe install the torent client.
Go to whaterver:\World Of Warcraft\Cache directory theres a file there - BackgroundDownload.torent file . Execute the file and tell windows to open it with the freshly installed torent client (uTorent).
Go get something to drink, clean the room a bit, and u have the file when u come back.
Copy the Directory uTorent creates in its Download directory (WoW-2.0.0-to-2.0.3-enGB-Win-patch) into your Wow directory and execute BackgroundDownloader.exe .
Thats pretty much it. Hella lot faster the Blizz downloader.
thanks mate :)
Or get them from a HTTP souce wowwiki has links.
Fileplanet host all the patches, much faster :)
Bear in mind this only works for the last patch and the next ones - previous to that you had to use a tool to extract the torrent from the downloader .exe which you could then plug into your torrent client, so if you are doing a clean install of the game you'll want to be grabbing 1.12 from an http mirror as mentioned above.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trash Man
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/21
Well prepared me xD
www.wowwiki.com -> Patch Mirrors -> I usually go for patchitbaby as it's so fast and a simple web page (300kb on my 3mb connection)