11-02-2004, 03:29 AM
Thenryb,Nov 1 2004, 11:05 PM Wrote:Also, once you shut down the downloader and restart it it does not seem to pick up quite where you left off. For example, I stopped and restarted mine at 9% complete. At restart and after "copying" I was at 7 % and half hour later am at 8%.
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When you share something over bittorrent, you download bits and pieces in little clusters. When you cancel a bittorrent download, the partially downloaded clusters of the file will be deleted because they are of no use to others that are also on the torrent.
After restarting Blizzard's downloader multiple times and even resorting to using the alternate .torrent file with BitTornado, I'm just going to let Blizzard's downloader run overnight and see how things look in the morning. Nothing I've tried will get me a sustained download rate over 20 KB/s.
I downloaded a 1 GB file over bittorrent in less than 4 hours earlier today :(