140 Twitter characters are not enough for me to explain the frustration I am having at the moment with getting wow up to date on my Mac’s and PC’s.
I have an ISP that blocks any and all bit torrent traffic, including legit stuff such as Blizzards updater. While lame and stupid, I have been able to get around it in the past by just downloading the patch files from various mirrors, and doing it that way. There there is a problem.
For whatever reason, this last patch, combined with whatever other factors at play on my various systems that play wow, the patcher quit working. Something’s gone corrupt.
So, last night, when I should have been raiding with my friends, I spent that time installing WoW all over again. Next step? Get some HUGE 1.6GB cumulative patch that would take me to current. Two mirrors later, both files are corrupt.
No files, no torrent, and my ISP is a turd bucket.
There…I got it off my chest.
I still have no good solution, and even if I did, I am not a 100% sure the updater will even work when I get to that stage.
Feel bad for me, dammit.
UPDATE: Thanks to a few awesome readers, got a workaround happening with links and files and such. My next step is to kick my ISP in the noodle.
sounds like you should find another game or if anyone you know can download the update for you, you can drive over and pick it up lolz
I promise an authenticator would never give you this much hassle.
I guess a new ISP is out of the question?
Be a conscientious consumer! Stick it to the man! Ditch your ISP for the same reasons I don’t eat White Castle!
I have no other decent choices where I live. Sucks when you are trying to find competing ISP options.
You’ve hit on the exact problem here. Look at all the competition that there is among restaurants. When you go out to a restaurant, you can pretty much count on getting great service. If you’re disappointed in something about your meal and you say something, they are going to do something about it for you. Restaurants know that if you’re dissatisfied with their service you probably won’t be coming back so they have to keep prices down and they have to work hard to keep their customers happy. Internet providers, on the other hand, don’t have that problem. They have the luxury of being, in many cases, the only place that one can go to get internet service in a given area. They can treat their customers poorly and charge whatever they want and they don’t have to worry about customers leaving. Something needs to be done about it double quick.
I just had a great idea… The pay of the customer service reps at the ISP should be tied to the ratings that the customers they deal with give them… Just like a waitress at a restaurant. I think I’ve just come up with a way to solve the problem…
White Castle blocks your bit torrent?? That seems unlikely….
What’s a ‘raid’?
Scott, have you looked in to DSL Extreme? They are/were a sponsor of Leo’s radio show. I looked in to them at one point and thought their price:service ratio was pretty decent. Not sure if thats an option for you.
Any chance you can proxy some body else’s machine long enough to patch so you can do it directly and hopefully sidestep the ISP blocking?
Try downloading somewhere else, like at Starbucks?
That’s a funny thought… I wonder what the folks at Starbucks would say if Scott dragged his desktop computer into their cafe and hooked it up? LOL
You mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKEeHREK2nQ
LOL That is perfect!
Use a VPN, that should work
I absolutely can’t stand the lack of competition when it comes to internet service and cable tv providers. It drives me nuts. In a lot of places you have only one, or if you’re really lucky, two choices. The cable tv/internet providers have no problem charging ridiculous prices, treating their customers poorly and doing whatever they can to try to rip their customers off because they know that we have no other options. It’s ridiculous. There are plenty of perfectly legal, perfectly acceptable uses for torrents (such as the Blizzard updater), what makes your ISP think that it’s ok for them to block that service?
Scott, I feel for ya. This gets me ticked off every time I talk about it…
Dang, that sucks dude
Let’s hope the FCC passes these net neutrality rules so this kind of thing doesn’t happen anymore!
Glad you got it working! Really sucks. ISP’s are dicks. Who are you with?
Scott here is a list of ISP’s that throttle/mess about with bit-torrent traffic:
http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
If your ISP is throttling your traffic then one of the only things you can do is to set up a VPN with encryption.
you would think that there would be enough people that your ISP services that play WoW that they would have gotten enough complaints to lift some of the restrictions for these patches in particular, that really sucks…
You need Rapidwave… Please tell me you don’t try to live with either the city monopoly phone company or the Wireless ISP that rhymes with igis….
get to a buddy with mac who updated, put wow on a stick, go home, copy, done. =)
We have this problem here in europe, download the patch save it in a file and then install it via safemode and it should patch then
My ISP doesn’t seem to butcher torrents- yet- but doubtless the way things are going over here (UK) it’s just a matter of time. Thank you, Lily bloody Allen.
good piece of info for any computer use, backup files, and backup often. This goes especially so for games with many large patches. It removes the need for having to re-install, then re-updating, then you just delete files and paste from backup.
That guy on the picture is my uncle, i am Icelandic btw and he poses for computer company
Just for you Scott:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors
Patch mirrors! Where you can download without the nonsense of P2P connections!