Content patch is TOMORROW

[Concillian]

Bleh, I hate the Blizzard Downloader.  I've got everything set up well on my computer but it's downloading slow enough as to register as 0.00 KB/s due to the UW's network firewalls.  If I could just get a nice direct download, I'd be done in seconds given the speed of the UW network.  Unfortunately, the UW Ethernet REALLY hates anything like BitTorrent.
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The really sad thing is that the downloader lacks only two options to make it significantly better for most everyone (barring university P2P issues):

1) The ability to cap upload at 80-90% of max upload speed to free up a pipe for 'confirmation' packets from the download side, this would not only improve download speeds, but also free up your download bandwidth for other apps while getting the patch (since it seems to completely neuter the remainder of bandwidth)

2) The ability to run a seed after the download has finished at some reasonable upload speed (10-70% of max upload speed or so). I know I'd suspend my TS server for a few days to stream the patch to people for a while. Without this, the downloader is plagued with a pitiful number of seeds who can actually serve the last few % of the patch, as most of the people who receive the whole thing quit the downloader right away to start (or attempting to start) playing.

Luckily I was able to get the patch early in the maintenance cycle, and it only took me 20 minutes. Also, since I was at work all day, I was able to leave the downloader running all day, but I know others weren't so lucky.