Well this is bullshit

[Prominus]

i got my import today and took me a long time but i finally got threw all the addresses names and everything involved i get up to the part where you click the play ffxi and they hit me with another patch TIME:4 hours...ok ok i finished that and it starts again time 4 hours????? the files in the patch are like the same thing over and over xxxx/5907 files...most are .dat files then a little bit of japanese repeating over and over wtf??????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????

[Maxim]

There are three main steps involved in the patching process. The first is file checking, the second is the actual downloading of files, and the third is installing. The reason why you saw the 0/5000 count twice is because the first was a file check and the second was the downloading.

[Prominus]

wow thats horrible and i got such a great connection and it says aprox 4 hours......and whats worse it doesnt work minimized!!! i cant minimize and browse the forum :dead:

[Prominus]

im starting to despise the crystal theme :rolleyes:

[Corran Horn]

heh that was me back when I first installed Beta, then I finally was smart and ripped the speaker out :P

[John Doe III]

I was to ..it got old I encountered 3 different problems during my installation and the game took me a total of about 9 hours to setup while others just 5 o so. I wasn't going to give up of course becuase i'm not like that.

[hiro]

Yeah well good thin gi dont got the beta seems like the installation process is just a big hussle.

[EverJams]

The beta took about an hour to do the update patches for me. But I did notice in the download phase it did download some of the same named files and in the install patch did the same thing. does like the mcaffee virus scan downloads each part of the patch to the current version. Sucks.

[syrupbob8]

do you guys have dial-up or high speed internet????

[Shadowed]

I have cable, and it took me about an hour.

[syrupbob8]

ok good, i was worried that all those 4 hour things were for high speed, thank god it was only for crappy dial up, lol

[SlizenDize]

Soon I will have 26mbit are there any approx on the time of that cuz I really dont wanna wait 4 houers!

[avi]

It really depends on what the connection is.
A typical cable or Dsl line is between 100 and 400 mbps. but if you have a connnection thats always on it will be much faster then a phoneline.

[Prominus]

It took my 4 hours and i have a better cable connection than almost anyone at

Communications

3.8 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet
Storage

467.3 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download

2.2 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.


Courtesy of www.bandwidthplace.com

[John Doe III]

Prominus you get the game running? AIM me if you need help with anything.

[Nodachi]

Originally posted by Prominus
It took my 4 hours and i have a better cable connection than almost anyone at

Communications

3.8 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet
Storage

467.3 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download

2.2 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.


Courtesy of www.bandwidthplace.com
The main reason it takes so long is because your copy is basically from when the game was released and you have to DL every single updating patch since then. I too am on cable and it took me nearly 2 and a half hours to finish them all. This was before the expansion was released though.

[TheMidg]

All of you need to stop whining, patches took me over 20 hours when I first got the game, consider yourselves lucky.(Import version)

[Cometgreen]

My Beta took about 40 minutes to download and install all of the updates using a rather crappy cable connection. Maybe it's just the Import, as you probably have to download the files from Japan. You should just let it update over night or while you're at a movie or something.

Or wait for the NA version. ;)

Cometgreen

[Carthum]

I'm on a T1 line.. took under and hour