06-23-2006, 04:31 PM
Quote:The Blizzard bittorrent client does not appear to support trackerless downloads; therefore, when their tracker is down (as it was for pretty much all of the patch day in Europe, along with the website and the forums - WHY can they not run a low bandwidth site with announcements on throughout the day?), you can leave the window open as much as you like and it won't budge past 83%, which is what the background bandwidth drowner fetched in the days prior to patch day.
Extracting the torrent file out of the downloader file and running it in your own choice of bittorrent client gives you a smoother download with bandwidth limits you can manage and lets you seed for others after download is completed. There really is no excuse for the shoddiness of the Blizzard implementation.
This I agree with. I actually loved the background downloader and getting the patch this way was the smoothest patch day ever for me, but yes I should be able to manage my bandwidth usage and be able to sit there and let others pull from me when I'm done if I want to.
Go ahead and set the default settings on their client to the crap that it is now if they want, but give a real client.... The concept is sound, but the implementation is blowful.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.