What's new

WorldOfTanks

  • SNBForums Code of Conduct

    SNBForums is a community for everyone, no matter what their level of experience.

    Please be tolerant and patient of others, especially newcomers. We are all here to share and learn!

    The rules are simple: Be patient, be nice, be helpful or be gone!

vrapp

Senior Member
Here's a case that perhaps you might be interested in trying.

Being WorldOfTanks player, I noticed that whenever the game is downloading an update, which it does by means of its own torrent client, it literally brings the local network to the knees. In my home, I can have 3 computers watching streaming video at the same time, and the slowdown will be nowhere near the one that occurs when Worldoftanks is downloading an update.

If you want to try it out, go to worldoftanks.com, download small starter, then launch it and allow it to download the whole game. Then in 2-3 minutes try to go to any website.

I think, this degree of network slowdown shouldn't be happening under any circumstances.

Another issue is that even if you force lowest priority of this workstation using router's QoS, there will be no noticeable improvement for other workstations in the LAN. I think there should be.
 
This is a message best directed to wot, not here?

My fix would be simple. I would tell the customer not to install the wot virus. :)
 
You can turn off the torrent aspect of the launchers if you change the settings under the wrench button on the launcher. I think this is just a case of using all your bandwidth. If one computer is pulling everything you got, of course everything else is going to slow down. Theres no bandwidth left and what is there is being used.

You can try messing with the QoS stuff on the router and it might help throttle everything and provide some balance when you are updating WoT.
 
No, as I said, I see many other scenarios where the whole bandwidth is being used, I can even use another torrent client to download w.o.t. torrents, with the same speed, and there no such effect, not even close. In fact I'm doing exactly that right now, Transmission on the router is downloading with full speed, and I see almost no slowdown of regular web browsing on the client workstation.

The reason I posted is because perhaps this anomaly exposes some bug or oversight in the router, so if the reason was found, it could be improved.
 
Last edited:
This is a message best directed to wot, not here?

I actually did, but as expected, they did not react. After all, it's not their application that suffers.

My fix would be simple. I would tell the customer not to install the wot virus. :)

I think, more professional term is "vulnerability", which is usually seen as deficiency, and not of the "virus" but of its "victim".
 
I actually did, but as expected, they did not react. After all, it's not their application that suffers.



I think, more professional term is "vulnerability", which is usually seen as deficiency, and not of the "virus" but of its "victim".


I don't see the difference between this and a virus. Albeit one that a user might want, overall.

The professional reaction should be from wot as their application makes the users systems suffer.

If they don't see that and you accept it, you can't be serioulsy asking for a third party (router firmware, in this instance) to be correcting their mis-programming skills.
 

Latest threads

Support SNBForums w/ Amazon

If you'd like to support SNBForums, just use this link and buy anything on Amazon. Thanks!

Sign Up For SNBForums Daily Digest

Get an update of what's new every day delivered to your mailbox. Sign up here!
Top