#0 - Dec. 4, 2007, 7 p.m.
In the past, disabling the peer-to-peer portion of the downloader results in a download, in terms of time, even longer than proceeding with the choppy peer-to-peer.
Comcast has a lot of subscribers - how many? I do not know. What percentage of these subscribers also play WoW? Once again, I do not know the amount. Are these people a significant portion of the WoW install? Not certain but I could hazard a guess.
There must be a better way to push upgrades and patches to the end user. Other online subscription games manage this without bit torrent.
If the peer-to-peer scheme is going to continue for the foreseeable future, is there a work-around on Blizzard's end which can somehow ignore these spoofed packets? Something the end-user can do other than switching providers? Many cannot simply switch high speed providers - we're locked into high speed with Comcast or nothing.
Thanks for you time,
Xakopane