WotLK local download

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Well I need to get hold of the WotLK client some how, and I would rather not download this SIX GIGABYTE file from Blizzard. Is is hosted locally by any chance? I searched the forums but didn't come up with anything. I've looked around my area but there doesn't seem to be anyone from whom I can copy it :(
 
If you live in the PE area, you can come copy my folder. Alternatively, I can burn to DVD for you and post it? If you have the EU version, just lemme know what the current version you have is.
 
AcidRaZor said:
Maybe this will help: http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=904
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That is just patches though...

ps. The blizzard download from their site will make use of akamai servers, of which both IS and SAIX have locally. The trick is to use split routing, like with route-sentry. That way 99% of the download will come from local.

I also tried getting all the patches ect. local, in the end I still only had TBC installed and still had to use the blizzard downloader in the end.
 
Tinuva said:
That is just patches though...

ps. The blizzard download from their site will make use of akamai servers, of which both IS and SAIX have locally. The trick is to use split routing, like with route-sentry. That way 99% of the download will come from local.

I also tried getting all the patches ect. local, in the end I still only had TBC installed and still had to use the blizzard downloader in the end.
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Akamai servers? Care to elaborate?

Would be nice to have a local download for the new content patch instead of using international bandwidth
 
Akamai is a content delivery network. They have servers all over the world which mirrror static content. Even facebook makes use of them.

For example:
Here is a link to CSS stylesheet used by facebook:
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/z7629/l/qn4w7u7o/en_US/167934/css/ie7.css
(to check go to facebook and view the source code of the page should see the link relatively at the top)

Now lets do a dns test:
Code: 
david@wadavid ~ $ dig static.ak.fbcdn.net

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-P1 <<>> static.ak.fbcdn.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45772
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;static.ak.fbcdn.net.           IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
static.ak.fbcdn.net.    3368    IN      CNAME   static.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net.
static.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net. 15927 IN CNAME a749.g.akamai.net.
a749.g.akamai.net.      20      IN      A       196.33.166.210
a749.g.akamai.net.      20      IN      A       196.33.166.201

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 196.220.32.1#53(196.220.32.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 30 10:12:16 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 144
As you can see, it resolves to a local ip on IS's network.

Here is a short traceroute as well.
Code: 
david@wadavid ~ $ traceroute static.ak.fbcdn.net
traceroute: Warning: static.ak.fbcdn.net has multiple addresses; using 196.33.166.201
traceroute to a749.g.akamai.net (196.33.166.201), 30 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  untangle-e1i1.wacpt.net (10.5.1.251)  0.253 ms  0.216 ms  0.206 ms
 2  e-4.lr1.hopestr.cpt.za.wacpt.net (10.254.254.254)  0.871 ms  0.847 ms  0.846 ms
 3  e-1.fr1.gw.cpt.za.wadns.net (196.220.63.237)  1.355 ms  1.172 ms  1.231 ms
 4  e-0.cr1.gw.cpt.za.wadns.net (196.220.63.225)  1.643 ms  2.287 ms  3.674 ms
 5  wa-bgp2.wadns.net (196.220.39.251)  1.992 ms  1.610 ms  1.669 ms
 6  cpt-acc-agg-vlan18.frogfoot.net (196.1.59.57)  2.217 ms  2.059 ms  2.588 ms
 7  cpt-br-tra-carp.frogfoot.net (196.1.56.57)  4.370 ms  3.382 ms  4.705 ms
 8  vlan567.hr1.cpt1.za.mtnbusiness.net (66.8.22.57)  4.873 ms  3.979 ms  3.265 ms
 9  ge8-0-0.gw1.cpt1.za.mtnbusiness.net (196.30.176.33)  4.915 ms  5.661 ms  5.799 ms
10  atm0-1-0sub1.cr5.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net (196.31.39.38)  33.677 ms  36.150 ms  38.507 ms
11  196.30.1.7 (196.30.1.7)  37.656 ms  34.059 ms  39.737 ms
12  ge0-2.cr1.jnb7.za.mtnbusiness.net (196.30.121.101)  37.334 ms  38.353 ms  38.679 ms
13  ge0-2.br1.jnb7.za.mtnbusiness.net (196.30.228.121)  31.653 ms  37.247 ms  34.821 ms
14  as3741.rba.is.co.za (196.30.228.242)  34.535 ms  36.642 ms  32.520 ms
15  csw4-rba-gi8-4.ip.isnet.net (196.26.0.249)  32.229 ms  31.658 ms  34.009 ms
16  a196-33-166-201.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (196.33.166.201)  31.039 ms  32.171 ms  32.076 ms
Basically Blizzard also makes use of Akamai for content delivery for the game files. I can't remember but when I was using the downloaded I did a "netstat" in the command prompt and saw connections to local servers (specifically akamai), only thing that was open was the downloader...

Try it, if you see it goes over international bw, just stop your download, but I am fairly certain it will go over local, only problem is you do need internation for the blizzard downloader to get the info from their servers overseas.
 
Tinuva said:
Akamai is a content delivery network. They have servers all over the world which mirrror static content. Even facebook makes use of them.

For example:
Here is a link to CSS stylesheet used by facebook:
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/z7629/l/qn4w7u7o/en_US/167934/css/ie7.css
(to check go to facebook and view the source code of the page should see the link relatively at the top)

Now lets do a dns test:
Code: 
david@wadavid ~ $ dig static.ak.fbcdn.net

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-P1 <<>> static.ak.fbcdn.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45772
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;static.ak.fbcdn.net.           IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
static.ak.fbcdn.net.    3368    IN      CNAME   static.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net.
static.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net. 15927 IN CNAME a749.g.akamai.net.
a749.g.akamai.net.      20      IN      A       196.33.166.210
a749.g.akamai.net.      20      IN      A       196.33.166.201

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 196.220.32.1#53(196.220.32.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 30 10:12:16 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 144
As you can see, it resolves to a local ip on IS's network.

Here is a short traceroute as well.
Code: 
david@wadavid ~ $ traceroute static.ak.fbcdn.net
traceroute: Warning: static.ak.fbcdn.net has multiple addresses; using 196.33.166.201
traceroute to a749.g.akamai.net (196.33.166.201), 30 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  untangle-e1i1.wacpt.net (10.5.1.251)  0.253 ms  0.216 ms  0.206 ms
 2  e-4.lr1.hopestr.cpt.za.wacpt.net (10.254.254.254)  0.871 ms  0.847 ms  0.846 ms
 3  e-1.fr1.gw.cpt.za.wadns.net (196.220.63.237)  1.355 ms  1.172 ms  1.231 ms
 4  e-0.cr1.gw.cpt.za.wadns.net (196.220.63.225)  1.643 ms  2.287 ms  3.674 ms
 5  wa-bgp2.wadns.net (196.220.39.251)  1.992 ms  1.610 ms  1.669 ms
 6  cpt-acc-agg-vlan18.frogfoot.net (196.1.59.57)  2.217 ms  2.059 ms  2.588 ms
 7  cpt-br-tra-carp.frogfoot.net (196.1.56.57)  4.370 ms  3.382 ms  4.705 ms
 8  vlan567.hr1.cpt1.za.mtnbusiness.net (66.8.22.57)  4.873 ms  3.979 ms  3.265 ms
 9  ge8-0-0.gw1.cpt1.za.mtnbusiness.net (196.30.176.33)  4.915 ms  5.661 ms  5.799 ms
10  atm0-1-0sub1.cr5.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net (196.31.39.38)  33.677 ms  36.150 ms  38.507 ms
11  196.30.1.7 (196.30.1.7)  37.656 ms  34.059 ms  39.737 ms
12  ge0-2.cr1.jnb7.za.mtnbusiness.net (196.30.121.101)  37.334 ms  38.353 ms  38.679 ms
13  ge0-2.br1.jnb7.za.mtnbusiness.net (196.30.228.121)  31.653 ms  37.247 ms  34.821 ms
14  as3741.rba.is.co.za (196.30.228.242)  34.535 ms  36.642 ms  32.520 ms
15  csw4-rba-gi8-4.ip.isnet.net (196.26.0.249)  32.229 ms  31.658 ms  34.009 ms
16  a196-33-166-201.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (196.33.166.201)  31.039 ms  32.171 ms  32.076 ms
Basically Blizzard also makes use of Akamai for content delivery for the game files. I can't remember but when I was using the downloaded I did a "netstat" in the command prompt and saw connections to local servers (specifically akamai), only thing that was open was the downloader...

Try it, if you see it goes over international bw, just stop your download, but I am fairly certain it will go over local, only problem is you do need internation for the blizzard downloader to get the info from their servers overseas.
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How would I be able to get content served from my websites via akamai?
 
AcidRaZor said:
How would I be able to get content served from my websites via akamai?
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You order it as an extra service on top of your hosting, usually you do it seperate from your hosting though. It is going to cost you though, its not a cheap service, but that is how they make their money.

As for ISPs, if an ISP makes enough bandwidth to akamai, akamai will let the ISPs host servers for them as wel, usually akamai send the hardware for free to the ISP, so the ISP really just pay the bandwidth to let the servers sync up data and some space in their own DataCentre. Akamai then use DNS to let that ISP's customers make request to the servers hosted at the ISP.

It is a win/win situation always for the ISP, since they have it on their local network, their clients get the content downloaded faster since its cached on the ISP's edge.

You can visit their site for more information: http://www.akamai.com/

Usually its only cost effective for people hosting HUGE websites, with many many visitors. Like CNN/National Geographic/Gumtree/Facebook ect. makes use of their services.
 
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