Anyone else having problems with the Downloader?

[Norfindel]

Tried to download the digital version 3 times by now, and it always dies after about 1.1 gb, with "problem authenticating your download" error. Now i'm trying from another computer, to see what happends.

Anyone else with problems?

[Hankst]

Had the same problem, until I just extracted the *.torrent-file out of the Installer and downloaded the whole thing with µTorrent...

[Norfindel]

Had the same problem, until I just extracted the *.torrent-file out of the Installer and downloaded the whole thing with µTorrent...

Oh, how can the .torrent be extracted? It's really a public download, so i don't know why the go thru the hassle of doing nasty authentications that depend on the browser you're using, firewall programs, routers, OS, and the alignment of the planets

[Hankst]

I used a WoW torrent extractor, but I'm not 100% sure anymore which one. This one, I guess:

http://capnbry.net/wow/
->
"WoW Torrent Extract"

Just drag & drop the sc2-downloader onto the WoW torrent extractor executable, should work.

Edit:
If this doesn't work for you, I can send you the enGB-torrent, which will only work if you live in Europe / get an European version.

[Norfindel]

Thanks, but Europe would be way too much lag. I didn't knew that the torrent could be extracted from the installer.
If the downloader fails in the new machine, i'll try to extract it. Thank you!!!

I can understand Blizzard not wanting to release a simple torrent for fear of fake torrents appearing everywhere, which is a security issue, but the downloader they made leaves something to be desired, and also the solutions they give for problems with the downloader, like connecting your computer to the internet directly without firewall. That must be as as advisable as walking into a slum completely naked

[Norfindel]

Not surprisingly, the same error in the other computer.
I'm downloading with uTorrent right now. The Blizzard downloader sucks balls.
If many people go with the digital download, i can see Blizzard support flooded with Downloader issues.
I had all ports fowarded, there wasn't any reasonable cause for it to fail.

[spychi]

I have the same problem, wait for the servers to get information files intact as the servers were shutdown for a while (as I suspect), it was like that few days ago