Last night I got homesick and decided to just turn on WoW and have a potter about before my sub ran out.

So I booted up the PC… and found I’d have to download a 316MB patch before doing so. I used to have problems with Torrent type stuff, but I sorted those out. Well, I thought I had. The Blizzard Downloader complained about not being able to connect to the tracker. And then, later, that I was behind a firewall. So I set up the firewall and port forwarding on the router, even though the downloader used to work just fine.

Then I did a trace route and it seems there might have been a routing problem in Telia.net. Maybe. I’m never sure if tracert problems always show real problems or whether it shows problems with tracing the route.

Anyway, I tried again this morning and I’m still getting time outs when running tracert and the Blizzard Downloader is still complaining.

I hate PCs.

(I know I could trying downloading the patch from a mirror, but I’ve had so many Torrent problems in the past I wanted to check this is working okay.)