I use my cell phones as a wireless hotspot and hit D/L speeds of 270+ kbs took me about 16 hours to download the beta on my laptop using my cellphone as a portable hotspot.

took me about 2-3 hours to download all, so maybe you should upgrade your 28.8k modem 

Ah I have my share of fun with the Telekom as well. Though I live in the suburbs so I don't fully blame them for my connection. Still I started my download about 24 hours ago and now it's almost done (it's running at 245kbs - my max dl speed).

It's about twice as fast as your connection and I'm done after 24 hours+ so saying it will take you 3 days seems reasonable.

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by hercules

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by Agricola1

Germany MUST have cable and it can't really cost much more than a shitty DSL connection, I have a connection about the same as that whem I was living in Thailand from the state communications monopoly. This is the 21st century and you're living in the the third most affluent country in the world and that picture of your chancellor dressed in an SS uniform done in Greece made me horny! I use Virgin cable in the UK it says a 50mb/s download speed but when I test it it's only 23 mb/s with 3.8 mb/s upload.

Just incase you thought I was trolling concerning the beautiful Chancellor Merekel CLICK any man that wouldn't want her punishing him all night long needs to see a therapist for gender reassignment in my opinion!

 

FACT!

Yes, and this would never have been if we still had the Führer...

But honestly. I am on some damn corner. I mean, fuck, I live in the damn capital Berlin. But at the outskirts. Its some "hole" the Telekom does not care for. The DSL alone costs me 45 Euro already! I COULD make a totally new connection via satellite, but that costs me 60 Euro, and blast, thats 80 fucking Dollars! I am not Rockefeller!

Time to rant on your government .They got 100 billion euros to gift greece and cannot provide decent internet in the outskirts of the capital?

I live on the outskirts of a town in north west england which has a population of less then 100k and i got 50mb connection and it took me under 2 hrs to download .

more investment in germany  less in greece .

No disagreement here. ;)

Must agree with that, even the lovely Miss Merkel has no excuse if she can afford a €5bn tax break for the country and pump free cash into Greece but not provide proper broadband infrastructure for the capital. In western Europe the internet has become an essentail service no different than the postal service or trash collection or even heating. A crap connection is like having a low flush toilet circa 1970's if anyone here knows what that's like after you've done a big turd and used half a bog roll!

Originally posted by Elikal

I have DSL 2000, an acutal download rate of currently 120 kb/s. Due to the download calculator I used, this 16 GB download takes 296 hours time. 12 days.

 

Welcome not to beta.

Your move.

The dark age called and wanted their internet back.. =P Honestly tho i will send a though to what ever diety governs broadband and ask them to grant you mercy.. or a miracle...

Personally i am all patched up and ready to go... So with my luck i will be in the sunday group.

Ps. I have a 100/10 fiberoptic LAN connection... And.. It... Feels... GOOD.  Ds.

Originally posted by tawess

Originally posted by Elikal

I have DSL 2000, an acutal download rate of currently 120 kb/s. Due to the download calculator I used, this 16 GB download takes 296 hours time. 12 days.

 

Welcome not to beta.

Your move.

The dark age called and wanted their internet back.. =P Honestly tho i will send a though to what ever diety governs broadband and ask them to grant you mercy.. or a miracle...

 

Personally i am all patched up and ready to go... So with my luck i will be in the sunday group.

 

Ps. I have a 100/10 fiberoptic LAN connection... And.. It... Feels... GOOD.  Ds.

 

 

*sob* :(

Well, maybe a friend can download it and hand me a disc. Only... almost no one I know uses disc burners anymore, teh. Oh well, typical. I have as usual the black could over my head.

I'm on DSL too :( , i'm on day 2 of the full client download...

I'm on pretty bad DSL right now not being home. Getting about 50KB/s. I'm interested to see if I'll have it finished by friday. If not I can finish it when I get home saturday morning but still lol.

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by DM19

Time to find a better ISP?

Not possible. Here we have a monopoly for the cables on "German Telekom". There IS no alternative. Another provider would have to loan Telekom cables, which are limited to this.

Wut?  I find it hard to believe that "German Telekom" would offer max of 1Mbit line max.  Come on, usually I have extra-nice speeds if I d/l  from Germany (Poland here) so I guess you have good infrastructure there (as expected from Gemany).

Even Polish biggest ex-monopoly Telekom that offer one of worst lines, offer up to 20 Mbits :/

Anyway if you really cannot get other than I feel for you. Still you would downlaod it faster than 12 days, you calculation are off.

Not to mention - what you expected?  Games are getting bigger, that's not surprise and they will get even bigger and soon.

In 3-4 years imo standard will be 50 GB game size.  Graphics are getting better and resoultions LOT bigger. Sounds and music have to be better quality and support 5.1, DTS and similar systems and that also increase size.

Not to mention people expect from AAA game like TOR, ALOT of content - that has to take 'space'.

im on 350 kb/s atm

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by tawess

Originally posted by Elikal

I have DSL 2000, an acutal download rate of currently 120 kb/s. Due to the download calculator I used, this 16 GB download takes 296 hours time. 12 days.

 

Welcome not to beta.

Your move.

The dark age called and wanted their internet back.. =P Honestly tho i will send a though to what ever diety governs broadband and ask them to grant you mercy.. or a miracle...

 

Personally i am all patched up and ready to go... So with my luck i will be in the sunday group.

 

Ps. I have a 100/10 fiberoptic LAN connection... And.. It... Feels... GOOD.  Ds.

 

 

*sob* :(

Well, maybe a friend can download it and hand me a disc. Only... almost no one I know uses disc burners anymore, teh. Oh well, typical. I have as usual the black could over my head.

Ask if any of your friend have usb-stick or buy one yourself.

I downloaded client already - it take 18,5 GB. 

Cheapest no-name 32 GB Usb-stick / pendrive, cost ~ 10 euro.

Mid-range better quality ones can easily be get for 20-30 euro. So you don't need dvd-burner.

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by tawess

Originally posted by Elikal

I have DSL 2000, an acutal download rate of currently 120 kb/s. Due to the download calculator I used, this 16 GB download takes 296 hours time. 12 days.

 

Welcome not to beta.

Your move.

The dark age called and wanted their internet back.. =P Honestly tho i will send a though to what ever diety governs broadband and ask them to grant you mercy.. or a miracle...

 

Personally i am all patched up and ready to go... So with my luck i will be in the sunday group.

 

Ps. I have a 100/10 fiberoptic LAN connection... And.. It... Feels... GOOD.  Ds.

 

 

*sob* :(

Well, maybe a friend can download it and hand me a disc. Only... almost no one I know uses disc burners anymore, teh. Oh well, typical. I have as usual the black could over my head.

 If you're looking at the downloader it's KBps not Kbps which is considerably quicker. at 70KBps it took me three days solid. At 120KBps it should take you a day and a half maybe two. Confusing I know.

There actually was a proposal for a law to ensure everyone would have access to "fast" broadband internet in Germany but that somehow was dismissed. I'm still surprised that there are issues on the outskirts of the capital already after other major cities are as good as completely covered with fiber. Just this year I finally could upgrade from DSL 6000 (on the paper, I only ever got the traffic speed of 3000) to a 50 mbit fiber VDSL.

So yeah, you have my sympathies and I hope you'll somehow make it in time!

Now I feel really bad for annoying the cs of my isp for the best speed I can get is 50mb/s. Why can't we all have 100meg fduplex, it's a bloody discrace!

I m downloading it right now (from France) at around 1400 Ko/s, which is nearly my max speed so i don't complain

I am sympathetic to the plight of folks with low bandwidth.

On the good side if you are DLing at 120KBps it really is only about 40 hours.

120KBps = .117 MBps = 8752 seconds per GB = 145minutes per GB = 2.41 hours per GB

2.41 hrs per GB = 38.6 hours for a 16GB DL.

Originally posted by zymurgeist

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by tawess

Originally posted by Elikal

I have DSL 2000, an acutal download rate of currently 120 kb/s. Due to the download calculator I used, this 16 GB download takes 296 hours time. 12 days.

 

Welcome not to beta.

Your move.

The dark age called and wanted their internet back.. =P Honestly tho i will send a though to what ever diety governs broadband and ask them to grant you mercy.. or a miracle...

 

Personally i am all patched up and ready to go... So with my luck i will be in the sunday group.

 

Ps. I have a 100/10 fiberoptic LAN connection... And.. It... Feels... GOOD.  Ds.

 

 

*sob* :(

Well, maybe a friend can download it and hand me a disc. Only... almost no one I know uses disc burners anymore, teh. Oh well, typical. I have as usual the black could over my head.

 If you're looking at the downloader it's KBps not Kbps which is considerably quicker. at 70KBps it took me three days solid. At 120KBps it should take you a day and a half maybe two. Confusing I know.

it should be called "ridiculous bits per decade", cause that is how long it takes for some isps to upgrade /rawr

Originally posted by Digna

I am sympathetic to the plight of folks with low bandwidth.

On the good side if you are DLing at 120KBps it really is only about 40 hours.

120KBps = .117 MBps = 8752 seconds per GB = 145minutes per GB = 2.41 hours per GB

2.41 hrs per GB = 38.6 hours for a 16GB DL.

game is like 30+ gigs...

I got it in four hours. HA HA.......HA HA HA! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!! Cof cof. Oppps I'm beeing a dick again, sorry. For thoes with low bandwidth I feel your pain.

You have already played this game am I right.I think I saw a review you wrote. So why don't you just take it easy and not stress over this weekend testing since you have already played.