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b10010011
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said by Cheese:

said by Omega:

I play World of Warcraft. Created by a legitimate company (Blizzard), bought and paid for legally. The folks over at Blizzard have determined that the best way to distribute updates for the game is via a client that uses the same protocol as bittorrent.

So, if I was to have comcast, you are pretty much saying they have every right to block the needed data in order for me to play the game.

They aren't "blocking" you from getting the file from what I am reading, once it's done and you start sending is when this is happening.
When you upddate WOW through the client it uses bit torrent protocol.

Now here is the problem, if you watch the download will get to 99% and stay there a while. This is because you are required to SHARE a certain amount of the update (That means sending data) before you are allowed to get to 100% complete and continue.

If they block you from sending then they are also blocking you from receiving the update.

Gaming on Comcast is Comcraptic, I had better ping times to game servers ten years ago on dial-up.


Morac

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said by b10010011:

Now here is the problem, if you watch the download will get to 99% and stay there a while. This is because you are required to SHARE a certain amount of the update (That means sending data) before you are allowed to get to 100% complete and continue..
That isn't true, I've downloaded 100% without uploading a single byte. It happened recently so I'm guessing it was caused by the upload blocking.

That said if Comcast users are blocked from uploading then the amount of seeders drops dramatically (since Comcast is the largest ISP in the U.S.). If the number of seeders drops too low, then downloading will be very, very slow.
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