EvilMoose
join:2003-02-26
Urbana, IL
| reply to jared5494
Re: Insight and bittorrent?
Nicely said Iggy.
Here's a nice scenerio:
Person(0), an InsightBB user, goes to a store to purchase WoW, that person has to get a huge content patch to play. So first they try using the Blizzard Downloader to find out that the speeds suck.
Then they try to find a patch and find that the places that have the patch available either charge money or they have to sit behind a long queue.
Then days later they find a working link for the patch from a friend.
Would this person be mad at Blizzard? Would they be mad at Insight?
I mean, all the person was trying to do was get a working patch for a game they downloaded. A huge patch that they could have got really fast if Insight wasn't throttling Bit Torrent. They had to go through the run-around to eventually find it.
Out there, I see 1 public link for that patch that doesn't require a subscription or a really long queue. The rest are private links.
I see this as a potential problem for Insight if the gaming industry begins adopting Bit Torrent as a way to distribute large patches. The user would probably get mad at their ISP first. |
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Qumahlin
Never Enough Time
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join:2001-10-05
united state
| said by EvilMoose  : A huge patch that they could have got really fast if Insight wasn't throttling Bit Torrent. They had to go through the run-around to eventually find it. Out there, I see 1 public link for that patch that doesn't require a subscription or a really long queue. The rest are private links. Well I wouldn't say really fast seeing as even when the wow BT client works it does not work well.
Also if the person can't find a mirror with the patch they obviously aren't trying. There are TONS of free mirrors for each WoW patch (Hell DSLreports has a mirror available in the WoW forum) =P
Guaranteed it's still an issue, but I just had to point out if you can't find a free site for the patch you need to brush up on your google.com skills
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IGGY
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join:2001-03-30
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| "Well I wouldn't say really fast seeing as even when the wow BT client works it does not work well."
I'm going to have disagree with that statement. Before Insight started goofing with things. I could get extremely awesome speeds using BitTorrent. As long as those that were sharing had decent speeds as well. I think I've posted captures of my speeds in previous threads ( in relation to BitTorrent ).
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EvilMoose
join:2003-02-26
Urbana, IL | reply to Qumahlin
The thing I'm trying to say is that more games are adopting filesharing as a way to release large patches.
Do you trust downloading a "patch" from just anywhere? |
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Qumahlin
Never Enough Time
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| reply to IGGY
said by IGGY :"Well I wouldn't say really fast seeing as even when the wow BT client works it does not work well." I'm going to have disagree with that statement. Before Insight started goofing with things. I could get extremely awesome speeds using BitTorrent. As long as those that were sharing had decent speeds as well. I think I've posted captures of my speeds in previous threads ( in relation to BitTorrent ). Just wanted to clarify I wasn't referring to BT I was referring to WoW's crippled BT client which sucks for the most part unless you download the "hacked" client which enables alot more features and brings speeds up to par with normal BT clients
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