World of Warcraft

When downloading patches on blizz downloader, my download speeds today started at 700kb/s, dropped to about 600 which is my normal dl speed, Its been an hour and a half now and my download speed is 45kb/s, It says its behind a firewall but ive already done what the guide says for windows service pack 2, my other antivirus is Avast! Not sure what to do?? Speed keeps dropping until it is eventually 0 kb/s..

Reboot your router (just plug out).

I have once in a month the same problem with Belkin routers (wireless).

It always helps.

Hint: next time always take the option of "background loading while playing". It takes forever to download  1.2 GByte

:)) GL

I think I already unplugged it a few days ago with no change but its worth a try

A lot of people have this problem, including me. Despite the firewall warning the patch will still download, but the downloader won't be as responsive. The best thing is to just leave it running. It'll be slow as everyone is patching and they use a torrent-type system. Leave it an hour or two and it'll probably be done.

No.. it says 11 hours...... bah, this is the first patch, basically cant play for a week.

I downloaded it for 1 hr , maybe ur internet is not stable enough.

ive downloaded wow before a few months ago,

Originally posted by jaycee2006

ive downloaded wow before a few months ago,

I don't understand why people don't turn on the option to download the patches in the background.  I did that and it was 98% complete before yesterday's patch.  Took me like 5 minutes to download the remaining 2%.  You wait to download the whole thing on patch day and you're asking for trouble.

I downloaded the 1.63GB in 5 hours at around 130KBs (1000Kbs) and behind a firewall. With my old router and firewall I went through opening the ports and giving all the permissions to the downloader and never saw a big difference. I have Avast too. And a real 14Mbps line (20Mbps contracted).

edit: if finished around 12 hours ago. I was from 3am to 8am in CET, add or take 1 hour, I never know

Originally posted by Pappy13

Originally posted by jaycee2006

ive downloaded wow before a few months ago,

 

I don't understand why people don't turn on the option to download the patches in the background.  I did that and it was 98% complete before yesterday's patch.  Took me like 5 minutes to download the remaining 2%.  You wait to download the whole thing on patch day and you're asking for trouble.

Im not installing the new patch, im installing the game off the wow website, the first patch. 3. something gigs.