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Yep, saves them from having to pay for a CDN. The saddest part is that they didn't have UPNP/NAT-PMP to punch holes in the firewall for upload so you still got
by jolan 16y ago
Yep, saves them from having to pay for a CDN.
The saddest part is that they didn't have UPNP/NAT-PMP to punch holes in the firewall for upload so you still got crappy download speeds. I'm not 100% sure if this was ever fixed.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoThe post is a bit faux-alarmist, but one point he makes I agree with: I wish there were some throttling controls; by throttling upspeed you actually get better downspeed, which doesn't seem possible with the Blizzard downloader, sadly. And the firewall issue you mention.
- metellus 16y agoAnother side effect of this is that the downloader doesn't work at all if you're on a router behind another router. I wasted a couple hours trying to figure out why my SC2 beta wasn't downloading before finding the problem.