Brandish
10-12-2010, 07:43 PM
Hey.
Well, I have 4 or 6 computers that I run WoW on from time to time, and several of those have multiple installs on them for various purposes, plus, another person on the same net is also looking to install the patch, which leads us to:
* WoW patch locations have moved around several times since the beginning
* For the pre-patch files (the 4.7GB payload we downloaded over the past few weeks), I was able to get them onto the LAN and then copy them around to the other computers very quickly. (The files and directories were contained in a directory called Updates.)
* Now the post-patch files (looking like 1.4GB payload) don't seem to all be going into one location, some files are ending up in Updates, some are ending up in Data and Data/enUS, and some are going into Temp.
Which means:
* If I started the install on 5 computers and walked away, the bandwidth would cut into 5ths because the install process just trudges straight though wihtout prompting and
* WIth the files being seemingly being spread around, it's looking like I may be having to download the 1.4GB payload up to 11 times.
Now, I admit I'm tired, and the payload is still arriving so I can't see what willbe left after the fact, but I'm left feeling that this new downloading method won't be good for some of us.
I'm likely to be patching one WoW install and then copying around that copy of it to all the places it need to be. (This is distasteful, because it seems to mean that each and every patch that comes out will require this same copying of the entire directory each time.)
Well, I have 4 or 6 computers that I run WoW on from time to time, and several of those have multiple installs on them for various purposes, plus, another person on the same net is also looking to install the patch, which leads us to:
* WoW patch locations have moved around several times since the beginning
* For the pre-patch files (the 4.7GB payload we downloaded over the past few weeks), I was able to get them onto the LAN and then copy them around to the other computers very quickly. (The files and directories were contained in a directory called Updates.)
* Now the post-patch files (looking like 1.4GB payload) don't seem to all be going into one location, some files are ending up in Updates, some are ending up in Data and Data/enUS, and some are going into Temp.
Which means:
* If I started the install on 5 computers and walked away, the bandwidth would cut into 5ths because the install process just trudges straight though wihtout prompting and
* WIth the files being seemingly being spread around, it's looking like I may be having to download the 1.4GB payload up to 11 times.
Now, I admit I'm tired, and the payload is still arriving so I can't see what willbe left after the fact, but I'm left feeling that this new downloading method won't be good for some of us.
I'm likely to be patching one WoW install and then copying around that copy of it to all the places it need to be. (This is distasteful, because it seems to mean that each and every patch that comes out will require this same copying of the entire directory each time.)