by Aurael on May 11, 2007
In case you were wondering...
You may have noticed the background downloader downloading something if you've logged onto the World of Warcraft client today. This download is a portion of Patch 2.1. Blizzard poster Drysc explained it as such:
The background downloader will grab bits of upcoming patches before they're officially released so that on patch day you only have to download a remaining megabyte or so, patch, and then you're able to log in pretty quickly. It's been a normal part of the patch downloading process for quite a few patches now, and it should have gone active yesterday I believe to start downloading part of the 2.1 patch. Actually the bulk of it more than likely as I don't believe it's too much larger than 250MB.
So make sure to log on to the game sometime so that you can get a portion of the patch!