World of Warcraft
Last night I got homesick and decided to just turn on WoW and have a potter about before my sub ran out.
So I booted up the PC... and found I'd have to download a 316MB patch before doing so. I used to have problems with Torrent type stuff, but I sorted those out. Well, I thought I had. The Blizzard Downloader complained about not being able to connect to the tracker. And then, later, that I was behind a firewall. So I set up the firewall and port forwarding on the router, even though the downloader used to work just fine.
Then I did a trace route and it seems there might have been a routing problem in Telia.net. Maybe. I'm never sure if tracert problems always show real problems or whether it shows problems with tracing the route.
Anyway, I tried again this morning and I'm still getting time outs when running tracert and the Blizzard Downloader is still complaining.
I hate PCs.
(I know I could trying downloading the patch from a mirror, but I've had so many Torrent problems in the past I wanted to check this is working okay.)
posted by The Rev at
7:07 AM
3 Comments:
Good luck on the patch. I feel your pain. I play on the Lightinghoof usa server. I am a retired EQ cleric doing the Warrior thing now on WoW.
By
scottdaddy, at 4:38 PM
You will always get a time out when doing a traceroute. Reason being is that their firewalls will not allow ICMP requests to be answered from external users, it is a security measure.
By
CVJ, at 5:46 PM
Well, this evening it could find the tracker, but was still complaining about being behind a firewall.
A router reboot seemed to fix that.
Maybe I should have bought a new router instead of a new graphics card, eh?
By
The Rev, at 6:13 PM
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