djet Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Well after saying for a while I wouldn't..... I did. Some friends were getting together and I decided I would play a little with them so I started up the download and got one month going on my subscription. Then I got the download started and was sorta startled when I opened up the Connection Information and discovered that it looked like a torrent...... wtf? Blizzard torrenting! Well the DL sucks (hasn't gotten above 100mbs) which would be good for a torrent, but for a game download? Seems kinda odd....... Maybe my ISP sucks that bad atm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 (hasn't gotten above 100mbs) OMG, is this not enough?!?!.. lol anyways, it's years that blizzard uses torrent p2p to deliver files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djet Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 I find it kinda cool...... Hope they don't mind me torrenting WC3 now..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software Updater Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 The reason they torrent it is so that they don't have to stream the files from their servers and run up huge costs on bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 The reason they torrent it is so that they don't have to stream the files from their servers and run up huge costs on bandwidth. Thats not really the reason, the majority (75-90%) of the bandwidth is coming from them.. but when you have 10 million users all connecting on patch day (tuesdays) to get a new 250M download, you can imagine that a couple of servers cant effectively host it. So blizzard does use torrents, but only for the load balanncing they have thousands of 'seeding' servers all over the world (mostly in the US tho). It's been working great for all this time unless of course your ISP completely blocks torrents. And for the record, their seeding servers are fast, I get over 2500K/sec when i use my seedbox to download large patches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djet Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 My ISP isn't horrible, but still averages of 25 kbs on the WoW download suggests that it is..... Normally my latency is around 100 ms on WoW. Okay I disabled P2P downloading and for some reason the download has jumped up to about 140 kbs..... yay..... that seems kinda counter intuitive though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 My ISP isn't horrible, but still averages of 25 kbs on the WoW download suggests that it is..... Normally my latency is around 100 ms on WoW. Okay I disabled P2P downloading and for some reason the download has jumped up to about 140 kbs..... yay..... that seems kinda counter intuitive though... Your ISP is most likely throttling BitTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djet Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 Okay there must not have been a lot of peers for it cause now that I'm downloading 2.4 it's gotten up to around 400 kbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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