Updates!?

[Prayer]

I reently bought ffxi and I've registered, but I need to download the updates for ffxi. i live in an area that broadband is unavailable (i've tried to get it but can't), and i've got a lot of update to get. the firt lot of like 10,200 files takes about half an hour, while the next lot takes about 8 hours, I'm not sure if there is any more after that, but I can't spend that much time on the internet (i only have 1 phone line), unless i can go on at night. So last night I conencted to the internet and started downlaoding the updates it got to about midnight and i decidd to go to sleep, leaving the computer on to update. when i woke up this morning i found out that somehow my connection had been interrupted!

Does anyone know how I could ge the updates without spending 8.5 or more hours standing over my computer hoping the internet won't disconnect? (could I e-mail SquareEnix and ask if they can send the updates on a CD?, or something like that) Or I'll have to sell FFXI, lose 50 bucks, and buy WoW despite having waited 2/3 years for this game to come out and for my comp to be good enough to play it.

[little ninja]

i have an external hard drive with FFXI on there. so really all you have to do is take the wireless hard drive to a friends house who has broadband or dsl an download it, an update it from there to your external drive.

an whats great is external drives are cheaper then internal hard drives, an a basic 60 or 80gig is more then enough. plus it wont clog up the memory your operating system is running.

[little ninja]

with dial up sometimes calls that come thru the phone line will disconnect you. sometimes not moving the mouse will cause it to disconnect itself. if you cant do my first sugestion. best take a nap an start d loading it at around 11 oclock. an go play another game. an come back every 20 mins an so on, an move the mouse around. an while you at it take the phone off the hook, or turn on the portable phone. so no incoming calls will stop you d loading.

after those couple of ideas thats all i got.

[711rocks]

When I had to do this on pc (I play ps2 version now) what I did was start that patch at about 9pm (who calls after 9? lol) and went to sleep, it finished for me at about 7:30 am, then I got to find out my computer couldn't run it....-_-

[Prayer]

i'll look around and see if i can get an external HDD, cause i think some of my firiends have broadband. I started downloading it at 8pm and went to sleep at 11pm, turned off the monitor and left it downloading, woke up and it had an error message saying it disconnected.

so i can copy my FFXI onto the external HDD, take it to a friends house, download all the updates then take it back and put it on my internal HDD, right?

thanks

[little ninja]

i dont see why you wouldnt be able to file transfer it over, then make a pol shortcut to you main screen. but id rather keep it onto the external hardrive..

[Prayer]

I'm really starting to get pissed off at this game!!! I downloaded the 1st lot of updaes and played for about 3 hours, then i decided to install chains of promathia, and now i've got another 4 hours of updates to download!, so that'll be 11 hours of updates, with 3 hours of play time! is there a way of uninstalling just chains of promathia so i don't have to downlaod the additional updates, because i'm guessing if i uninstall FFXI i'll have to get the first 9 hours of updates again.

[little ninja]

LOL might as well suck it up an continue to d load it til its done. so many people want to go there, want to lvl, cop missions. its just better to get it done an over with.