anyone now about how big these downloads are going to be for updates to the game, both pre patch and then launch? I’m on a limited data plan and am trying to see what I need to do about updating, either I have to send my computer home with my son to update, or take days to get it done depending on size…
iirc, the entire Beta was like 7gigs. I don’t know what it would be going from Classic -> TBC but I would assume it would be less than 7gigs total.
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my condolences
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Since different versions of WoW all share data now, it depends which versions you already have installed.
With just Shadowlands and Classic installed, I think mine was 3.something GB for beta (or that might have been PTR).
If you already have beta or PTR installed, you probably won’t have much to DL on patch day.
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About tree-fiddy.
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o m g
I just checked retail, haven’t logged in there since day classic launched that I remember, and well, once it fetched its data, 121 mb worth, it did another 54 mg, and then the bottom fell out of my world. 23g at 7-9 mbs/s speed. that’s using the jet pack. Don’t know how much I have left on it, but its only 15g a month, I will have to buy more I can see.
hopefully that will keep me from having a major patch later, glad I caught this one.
cripes, I miss my cox net. Found out the place I moved to didn’t have it so lined up the jet pack thru verizon, only costing me 10 a month due to my plan, but still, its ok for youtube with occassional buffering, at the um, 144 setting lol, it will buffer most of the month at 360 , forget going any higher, I reserve that for videos i have to see lol.
Its been 6 minutes and it’s at 11%, guess I’ll order another 15gig.
Stupid landlord. There are a bunch of us renting various spots out here, found out a few months after moving in that cox DOES run down this road, as the guy said, the cables have been here since he’s been with the company (22 years) just not run to the house. So we got it all figured out, they run up to 100 feet free, and it was going to be 98 feet to where they needed to put the box. Then the landlord called the line markers to come mark lines in the yard, and apparently there are a bunch of lines that are not supposed to be there and the guy said he wasn’t going to mark it, he didn’t want responsibility if he missed one. So the landlord decided she wanted the box put in a different spot, cox said no, and here we stand. She refuses to let them run it as planned.
How I wish I could move. Yes, just for internet.
10 minutes and it just hit 20%.
ouch that hurt, just took 50 minutes and an update on my phone plan to add more hotspot data to download the 23 gig update retail had on it, now it’s getting the prepatch set up. still showing i can play the game though so not sure what is going on with that.
sigh. glad i checked back, and looked. this would of not made my day on the 18th had I not seen that big patch.
I guess it’s too late to point this out, but you don’t actually have to update retail if you’re not going to play it. All versions of WoW now share data (you’ll notice there’s one data folder in the WoW directory and multiple other folders for the different clients you have installed like retail, beta, classic etc), but if you just update one or the other it will just update whatever it needs just for that version.
Since TBCC beta and Classic PTR will have most of the data TBCC needs, if you happened to have either of those versions already installed, the overall data you’d need to download on patch day for TBCC pre-patch would be smaller is what I was getting at.
If you’re stuck using 4g internet you could also look into things like 4g resellers. There’s a lot of them like UbiFi (which uses AT&T). Different companies use different major carriers and you usually have to buy your own equipment and set it up, but they have “unlimited” plans. They’re not truly unlimited and start to throttle you if you use a lot of data compared to others, but I live in the middle of nowhere and currently have to use that kind of internet. It also only gets 5-20 Mbps (not even 3 MB/s) usually where I live so it’s not even true broadband speeds, but it’s better than the 1.5 Mbps (could only DL at 160 KB/s at best) century link garbage that is the only other option currently. We also use over 200GB in a month sometimes and don’t have to pay any extra.
It’s kind of a pain to research and set up though. You have to find one that uses a carrier in your area that gets a good signal and point the antenna towards the cell tower. Then to get the best speed you often have to try band locking it to different bands and doing speed tests. A lot of them use something like a MoFi router that’s basically a router with a module you stick a cell phone sim card into that attaches to an antenna.
There are also other kinds of wireless internet services that some places can get if you have direct line of sight to their towers (we don’t where I live so I’ve never had any of them to say how well they work). Things like Rise Broadband and a bunch of other companies do that in some places.
Starlink is the only real hope for non-garbage internet in some places, but I don’t think that will be widely available until after 2022. You can’t even reserve/pre-order that where I live anymore.
I live in a rural area, but in town. I know folks who are about 15 min driving time away from me and don’t have access to much of anything. Even their cell services is limited. It’s a strange problem to have in The USA during 2021… A real head-scratcher, if you ask me.
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