Slow patcher, bittorrent blocked.

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  1. Kaffien

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    Hello there,

    My isp throttles bittorrent and like traffic into the stone age.
    Is there a way to directly patch my game? Is there an argument where
    I can tell my patcher to directly download it from one source?

    I'm throttled to 477 KB/s, thank you!
     
    Kaffien, Sep 21, 2018
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    i do wish there was a direct https download option.

    on some networks, it would be faster to download a full install that way than just a patch via torrent.
     
    that_shawn_guy, Sep 21, 2018
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    i bet @BurningToad could give you a direct path, though he probably wouldn't want it shared around too much.
     
    Alley Oop, Sep 21, 2018
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    Yes torrent traffic is being throttled on a lot of ISP's. Because they are assholes without knowledge.
    Not thinking about that there is also LEGAL torrent traffic on the internet....
     
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    477 is a dream for me haha!
     
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    Can't throttle what they can't see. =)
     
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    You could link your account to steam and then steam will update your client. I have heard though steam updater is less efficient as it can not patch parts of files, so patches can be a bigger size download from steam. No idea if this is true, i don't use steam.

    Regards
    Spung
     
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    Steam patches are significantly larger - I've seen patches that are only a few hundred meg become over a gig on the steam client.
     
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    I'm not sure, but I suspect the patcher has an option to support SSL connections only. Most BitTorrent access libraries do support it. You could also open the Torrent file in a different client that supports that restriction, such as Transmission. (Transmission is my favorite Bittorrent client for many things. I also like qTorrent and kTorrent, but they are a bit heavier on the UI.)
     
    AoiBlue, Apr 4, 2019
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