I think Turbine saw Blizzard's system for distributing patches and tried to copy it to save themselves some server costs, but used a really ineffective method. Enable P2P for all of them and they download things much faster and save Blizzard lots and lots of bandwidth (which costs money), sharing of it across all the downloaders.Īnd anyway, my ISP doesn't count Uploads towards my cap, so this doesn't really hurt me in any way.ĮDIT: As an aside, and more related topic. Yes, there are patch mirrors, but relatively few know about them. That's not good for the servers and people's download speeds. That's a few million people on 2 different server farms (US and EU). The Blizzard downloader opens and they all download from Blizzard servers with no P2P. It's patch day and millions of people want to play but they get prompted for a patch. Let's use WoW for an example, as everyone else has. Not to mention that there's even an option to completely disable P2P and only download from Blizzard's HTTP server.Īlso, this sort of thing if the easiest way to get patches out to most of the game's population quickly. It never downloads or uploads ANYTHING after you've finished downloading the patch. The only part of the WoW patcher that downloads in the background is when you're pre-loading patches. If you have any questions or need any assistance with the download installation or the installation itself contact Technical Support here.Ĭlick to expand.No it's not. If you'd like to disable Pando (to prevent this) rather than remove it entirely this can be done from its Control panel option (Details here by scrolling down to "How do I control Pando Media Booster's options?")
**Pando will, once the download completes, and unless otherwise directed by the user, continue to "seed" the files out which can use bandwidth. The downloaded game install files can be stored for later use if needed in a reinstallation. Once the download has completed successfully and the game is installed, you can either disable** or uninstall "Pando Media Booster" (via the "Add or Remove Programs" (XP) or "Uninstall a Program" (Vista) control panel option).
If you are using any forms of "Download Accellerator" software disable these while Pando is downloading.Ĥ. It has a built-in connection tester, you can open Pando Media Booster via its icon in the Control Panel and click on: Advanced Connection Settings -> Test My Connectionģ.
Pando Media Booster downloads the files via the file "PMB.exe" and this file would need to be allowed through your firewall to both connect outbound and accept incoming connections.Ģ. The link below gives further details and answers many frequently asked questions regarding it:ġ. The downloaded installation here uses "Pando Media Booster" to download the installation files for installing the game.
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