To preface this, no its not my system, yes I have taken steps recommended to try and troubleshoot it, and yes I am not the only one experiencing this issue.
Patches are taking a very long time to initialize currently, once the patch downloads it seems to mostly download smoothly, but when its downloading the initialization portion, it does so at an extremely slow pace. That isn’t to say the patch itself doesn’t slowly download either, in fact the current one is downloading at a pace of 25 KB/s, which might as well be dialup speeds. This has been an on going issue I wanna say since 10.2.5 launched, and there has been zero recognition for the issue in terms of addressing it.
It should not take 10+ minutes to download a patch, and at the frequency these patches drop its been very problematic for a lot of people I know, especially ones that raid given it makes us late. Please, for the love of it all, FIX THE DOWNLOAD ISSUES WITH YOUR SERVERS! This is not a customer issue but a server or Bnet issue, or at least allow us to launch the game without the patch installed so we can install it later. Its been extremely disruptive and I am nearly at my wits end at this point given I can’t baby sit the launcher on Sunday and Monday to ensure all patches are caught before I raid. Let alone leave my PC running for hours on end with the game up to ensure I don’t get disrupted.
It may not be your system per se, but something about yalls systems. Cuz lemme tell ya, if there were a massive issue with the bnet app, nobody would be able to patch. Either stuff yall have installed, or an ISP thing, or even just the router yall use.
IDK what it is honestly, its afflicting people around the country is the thing, but IDK how or why any sort of addon or what have you would interfere with downloads. It smells of something about the servers is causing this more than anything else. As someone else mentioned the ISP during peak hours and throttling, but that still doesn’t make much sense. Given the same issue persists outside of peak hours too.
Can’t say I’ve had any issues, OP. Not that there’s been a lot to download since 10.2.5. But 10.2.6 downloaded at the usual sort of speed. Usually goes at like 12mb/s. Fastest thing I download.
Have you checked your download settings to make sure your speed is not capped?
OK So I am updating right now, was in Plunder all day. Taking a wee bit to initialize…(this part always takes a bit for me).
Nope, reached my max speed of around 3mbps in about three seconds. It does slow down though, a tad. No way should that take any longer than a few minutes even for a DSL connection.
You are a genius, it was geforce, as soon as I started to download the new driver update it immediately allowed the bnet update to work properly! TY for the tip, and at least I found the program that’s causing the conflict.
Is this at all related to an issue I’ve noticed recently where the battle.net update agent is constantly downloading… something? It never stops, it’s like it’s just endlessly downloading phantom data, and since I have to use slow Ethernet-over-power at the moment it chews all my bandwidth and gives me 2000+ latency.
I’ve managed to “fix” it by setting battle.net to close when I open a game (tried ending the process specifically but it comes back a few sec later), but if updating my GeForce driver can fix this I’d rather go with that.
I mean, if your drivers are out of date, you should be updating them anyway. What you describe, however, could be explained by another Blizzard product updating in the background.
If everything works fine while Bnet is closed, then its probably that.