EPTWhy does Blizzard say disabling Peer-to-Peer will result in slower d/l speeds? Do they benefit in some way if we d/l with Peer-to-Peer enabled?
Thanks.
Curiosity about Peer-to-Peer networking
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LiquidDeth
United States18 Posts
Why does Blizzard say disabling Peer-to-Peer will result in slower d/l speeds? Do they benefit in some way if we d/l with Peer-to-Peer enabled? Thanks. | ||
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skuj
United States302 Posts
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arb
Noobville17920 Posts
On June 05 2010 15:03 LiquidDeth wrote: I always download patches or game clients from Blizzard with Peer-to-Peer disabled. The download speeds are always faster. Why does Blizzard say disabling Peer-to-Peer will result in slower d/l speeds? Do they benefit in some way if we d/l with Peer-to-Peer enabled? Thanks. peer to peer is like seeding in torrents, if its on more people upload parts of the patch to you which results in faster downloading. otherwise youre just downloading from blizz' servers are a regular download speed | ||
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LiquidDeth
United States18 Posts
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stet_tcl
Greece319 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On June 05 2010 15:22 LiquidDeth wrote: If that's the case then why is it faster to disable peer-to-peer? Whenever I look at the connection information the d/l rate with it disabled is always faster. Small number of seeds due to relatively few users in beta, or you have a firewall blocking connections. | ||
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InfiniteIce
United States794 Posts
If your connection is DSL or lower, I recommended turning off the P2P downloading, as the upload rate will probably screw your download past the point of usefulness. (Funny, I just was screwing with this today when downloading the SC:BW installer again on my laptop...) | ||
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StaR_Robo
Australia229 Posts
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jacen
Austria3644 Posts
On June 05 2010 19:44 StaR_Robo wrote: The upload rate on P2P only screws with your download if you let it flood your whole upload bandwidth ... just make sure you set your client to not use all the available upload bandwidth. Having said that over the years I have quite often had terriblee experiences with blizzards downloader completely clogging the internet connection when downloading wow patches and not letting anything else communicate. It seems to have got a bit better lately though get some software that can traffic shape based on processes? i do that all the time and had never any problems with blizz downloaders, just make sure they don't get more than 75%-80% of your max upstream and you are fine. | ||
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Commodore
United States97 Posts
On June 05 2010 19:58 jacen wrote: get some software that can traffic shape based on processes? i do that all the time and had never any problems with blizz downloaders, just make sure they don't get more than 75%-80% of your max upstream and you are fine. As someone who's done this before, could you recommend specific software? | ||
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E_minus
Russian Federation60 Posts
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phuzi0n
United States308 Posts
On June 05 2010 15:22 LiquidDeth wrote: If that's the case then why is it faster to disable peer-to-peer? Whenever I look at the connection information the d/l rate with it disabled is always faster. It's likely that you've got a firewall or NAT blocking incoming connections from peers, so your ability to connect with peers is severely hampered. If you have a router then you either need to port forward or use UPnP. It could also be that you have a very low upstream. The less you upload, the less peers will send to you. | ||
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Klapdout
United States282 Posts
If there is a large load on the servers, such as after the games release then you will see a much higher download speed with p2p enabled, as Blizzards servers will be slammed. | ||
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collegeBored
United States1524 Posts
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LiquidDeth
United States18 Posts
Do you think that the slow download is because of the low amount of peers downloading as well, or am I missing some sort of firewall? Or do I need to adjust the upload cap? Thanks for the help. Not really that urgent, but like I said, a curiosity. | ||
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Gibybo
United States229 Posts
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