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What does "Could not connect to a valid tracker" mean and why does it pop up every few minutes?  When it does, the download stops until I click OK.

Hi,

I'm not at all familiar with the Blizzard downloader (curses...no beta for me), but I am fairly familiar with bittorrent. The standard bittorrent software (or at least versions older than a few months ago) had a bug/feature to the effect that an "Unable to connect to tracker" error message would pop up *even if the download were still working*. In these cases, the client was only attempting to connect to the tracker to update its info - the tracker is not essential to the download process after the first connect. The most annoying bit was that the progress indicator would refuse to move while the error window was open, leaving many with the impression that the download had stopped, only to jump several percentage points when the "OK" button was eventually pressed.

Of course, this may or may not be what's happening with the Blizzard downloader. I do suspect that they built it on top of an earlier version of the BT client, and that this is what's happening. The easiest way to test it would be to leave the error window open for a while and then close it and see it the progress meter jumps. I'd be willing to bet that it will.

Hope this helps,
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