Why is world of warcraft taking so long to install?
I just got a brand new dell inspirion laptop so I decided to play world of warcraft again. I've been downloading to the game client off of the website for almost 14 hours now and its still at 8 percent. What is wrong? My friends have also recently downloaded world of warcraft and it only took them 2 hours. Like really, I haven't even hit the patches yet this is just the game. Can someone please tell me a way to make this game install faster?
Public Comments
1. Maybe you just have a slow internet connection? Because WoW is a very big game to download2. There are 2 possible reasons to this.
1. Your internet connection is too slow for the download. The download from the World of Warcraft official website is several gigabytes in size and it is only permitted to download at several hundred megabytes/sec at most.
2. You may have a fast internet but the download takes up a lot of bandwidth. Actually, all downloads do unless you specify a smaller consumption. It may also be possible that someone is feeding off your bandwidth in your house or neighborhood. (unless you have a security key)
That is pretty much it man. If these don't help you I would contact Blizzard Tech. Support.
3. I had a similar problem when i installed the game.
Make sure that the firewall on your computer is not hampering the download.
If it is then add wow to the exception list
Deactivating the firewall for the duration of the download is possible but i would not encourage you to do so.
The whole game is 15 gb big (installed) and the download is arround 7 gb (path 3.3.3).
It is a whole lot of information that needs to be downloaded.
4. Make sure your have P2P enabled, the WoW client uses P2P to download and if you have it disabled in windows or in the WoW client then it will only download from the blizzard server.
Also check here -- Blizzards slow download speed page
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=19615
