Well, I've been away from WOW for 2 or 3 years now. It's scary, I can't even remember my 80 lock main's name!
Anyhow, that isn't the least of the problems. I'm trying to sign up with a new trial account and my download speed fluctuates around 8-19/kbs/sec. Yes really THAT SLOW!
For a while this morning it kicked up to 300+kb/sec, and I managed to download a whole gig. I'm presently standing at 8.6 gigs needed to dl, before I can even play. ARGH!
So, I've looked up multitudes of advice on the web and am getting nowhere. Any clues?
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium (not my favorite, but after my house burnt down - yeah really! - that was the only system for sale) with Hughesnet (satellite) and a Netgear NWR2000 router.
I've tried optimizing everything I can think of, but honestly I stink at this, and though I can access the router, I've got no clue what to do w it, once I do.
Any help gratefully accepted!
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Easiest thing would be to borrow a buddies disks, and you don't need to make a new account Blizzard doesn't appear to disable inactive accounts from having time added to them in the future....
I'd hesitate to be downloading this much data over a satellite connection, my cell-stick only allows my 5GB a month so I hope patches don't come too frequently as it eats into my podcast downloadin ;)
I'd hesitate to be downloading this much data over a satellite connection, my cell-stick only allows my 5GB a month so I hope patches don't come too frequently as it eats into my podcast downloadin ;)
Dude, you're using Hughesnet satellite. No amount of optimization is going to dig you out of that hole. Like said above, try to get a copy of the disks so you only have to download patches. Better yet, copy it directly from a friend's hard drive; it'll work perfectly without running an installer.
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Argh was hoping that wouldn't be the answer. My disks burnt last year in a house fire. And no friends that game anywhere near here (recently moved to the middle of nowhere in CO).
If you happen to be on, or have access to, a laptop, you could try connecting to somebody's free wifi and downloading there. It'd certainly beat using all of your bandwidth and paying overage charges.
Did you check that the ports are open on your router's firewall and forwarded to your IP?
Your satellite Internet connection is likely the culprit. I downloaded a full install of the game last month at 1.45 MB/sec and got the whole thing done in a couple of hours. It's not Blizzard, in this case, unfortunately, it's you.
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LOL only 5.5gigs to go. Fortunately my provider doesn't charge us for overage - the just throttle the living heck out of our connection if we go over.
No ability to go get free wifi, the only place in town with wifi is the library, and I can't spend hours there, since I can't leave my dogs in the truck that long alone.
I tried looking at the ports on my router, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to make that work. The "destructions" on the manual were so unclear as to be worthless. (Netgear WNR2000 if anyone knows something about those.) I did make sure that my windows firewall allowed those ports though.
Just to make things fun the (2 week old) router died this morning, so I'm plugged directly into the satellite modem now.
Hopefully hubby will make the trek to town today and see if he can take the router back.
Meanwhile I'm plugging away at between 7-20 kb/s most of the time. About once a day it speeds up to about 250-400kbs for about an hour. Never the same time of day though. No clue what does that.
No ability to go get free wifi, the only place in town with wifi is the library, and I can't spend hours there, since I can't leave my dogs in the truck that long alone.
I tried looking at the ports on my router, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to make that work. The "destructions" on the manual were so unclear as to be worthless. (Netgear WNR2000 if anyone knows something about those.) I did make sure that my windows firewall allowed those ports though.
Just to make things fun the (2 week old) router died this morning, so I'm plugged directly into the satellite modem now.
Hopefully hubby will make the trek to town today and see if he can take the router back.
Meanwhile I'm plugging away at between 7-20 kb/s most of the time. About once a day it speeds up to about 250-400kbs for about an hour. Never the same time of day though. No clue what does that.
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