ctceo Premium Member join:2001-04-26 South Bend, IN |
ctceo
Premium Member
2007-Nov-19 9:20 am
World of Warcraft UpdaterThis would explain why several friends of mine have been having corrupt & Incomplete WoW Updates, and need to repair an installation, and download the patch(es) manually.
CTCEO Recommendation:
Switch Providers. COX should not be disrupting a download method that is going to be more frequently used as time passes until a better technology is discovered. They should embrace and attempt to work WITH the p2p software in an effort to help minimize and make more efficient the traffic that is going across their cables.
Ultimately, no matter what the latest transmission protocol is you WILL NOT be able to entirely stop bad people from doing bad things. So COX, guess what, DEAL with it or go crying to mommy when your bankrolls get smaller and smaller, and Comcast comes a knocking with a buyout offer. |
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fiberguy2My views are my own. Premium Member join:2005-05-20 |
fiberguy2
Premium Member
2007-Nov-19 11:19 pm
My recommendation is to do business with a company, (wow) that takes your money and delivers the content through their own channels. If people would use P2P to share their OWN stuff with others (as it was intended) then I'd be more upset that ISPs are throttling. However, right now, you are paying companies like Blizzard AND being used (some) to sent out their distro..
If anything, I'd put pressure on the places you are spending your money to run their own data centers... after all, that's what you are paying THEM for. |
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ctceo Premium Member join:2001-04-26 South Bend, IN |
ctceo
Premium Member
2007-Nov-21 11:47 pm
Blizzard does offer their own, and it works rather efficiently , better than most of the p2p clients put together whenever I do an update. |
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fiberguy2My views are my own. Premium Member join:2005-05-20 1 edit |
Then it's not P2P... This is where the terms get very muddy and gray.. if the provider is running the network data and servers themselves, then they are a provider.. not exactly the P2P that everyone here is complaining about. |
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ctceo Premium Member join:2001-04-26 South Bend, IN 1 edit |
ctceo
Premium Member
2007-Dec-1 8:49 pm
It's Both. Their updater does have a primary connection to a direct connection with blizzards FTP downloader. The other 60-70% or so of the connection IS P2P. Hence the problems. Some of those peer to peer connections may download erroneous chunks because of the reset, and therefore the whole download is corrupt.
It does have the ability to dynamically adjust to the lack of P2P ability wether restricted by your ISP or your firewall(s), however this ability is obviously not perfect. |
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