Well, today is the day where the Internet dies. Â Not with a whimper, but with a Cayaclysm!
Will Blizzard’s servers be able to take a the load? Â Will the Internet die do to P2P sharing of the upgrade files? Â If you were not aware of this, Blizzard is one of the few companies that legally use Bittorrent to distribute their upgrade(s). Â So each WOW player runs a very small Bittorrent package that distributes & downloads the WOW software as neeeded.
The player can opt out of the Bittorrent feature, but if they do, they are only downloading from Blizzard themselves and they claim the download will take significantly longer…
Either way, with a release this big, expect some hickups along the way…