Capping warcraft download speed

[pctech]

I've started to download World of Warcraft starter edition but it consuming a lot of my bandwidth making other tasks slow.

Disabled P2P networking but is there another way (perhaps via the registry) to set a max kb/s speed?

[Technical Ben]

AFAIK your gonna have to look for some sort of third party network management system? Say, does your router do QOS or anything like that?
I use a download manager for general things. But for steam/intergrated game downloading, it's no use.

Can you use a third party torrent program?

[pctech]

Router doesn't do QoS and it appears you can only use Blizzard's downloader to retrieve the official files as a connection analysis shows a connection to Limelight Networks' Content Delivery Network.

Disabling Peer to Peer helped a lot, I think it started to self throttle when it detected other network activity.

[zappaDPJ]

There's not much more you can do other than disabling BitTorrent. Personally I'd re-enable it and get the download overnight. In fact I'll be doing that very thing tomorrow night as I have a new PC to play with

[pctech]

Only about 1 more gig to come down.

[zappaDPJ]

Better get it quick, I'm about to go for the full download in 45 minutes

[pctech]

 

Need to replenish my transfer reserves when I get paid.