WoW patch and port shaping.

Daveogg

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Shaun, Sihen this is why port shaping is a BAD idea.

Tonight work is slow so i thought i would play a bit of WoW. Well guess what a new patch is out and without it you cant log on. Its only 60MB so that should take me about 8 minutes to download on my super duper 1mbps Iburst, just about right to make a quick cup of coffee.

Hang on my coffee is finished and i see i am still on 0% downloaded. Ah well prehaps this explains it Blizzard only distribute their patches via p2p and iburst have blocked that. So i have a internet connection that is very good for playing WoW but iburst's "p2p is bad policy" means i cant play it.

An hour later and guess what i have managed 768KB. Oh well at this rate it should take about 80 Hours yup thats 3.33 days.

Now Shaun, Sihen and anyone else at iburst please listen, you have given me a big problem. My 10 yrs old step son in New Zealand is a much better than me at WoW. I really need to play to keep up. He is already 4 levels ahead of me. In three days that will be 8 levels and i am dead meat.
 
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