Very slow download times for today's update?

[Billnes]

Finally finished. 5:37PM!

[Ladynamine]

Finally finished. 5:37PM!

congrats! xD

And I agree w/ the people saying that we should get an incentive for the server congestion by extending the event stuff by a day or 2. This congestion is ridiculous. I wonder if the reason behind all of this is because of both FFXI and FFXIV's updates being on the same day.

[bungiefanNA]

There's another aspect to the update as well. PS2 users are hammering it, because it is installing Adoulin for them, so NA PS2 users are finally getting official access to the content. Also, a lot of us have been spreading the word on other FF sites to let people know the story is ended this month, to try to get people to check it out, and boost server populations a bit. Record Keeper's Japanese version just got Shantotto added and its first set of FFXI dungeons, and the people on the FFRK Reddit seem to be interested.

If the download is going too slow for you, people that have already patched are providing alternate download methods to get the files faster. I'd been downloading for over 12 hours officially, with only about 700 files out of the 2700 or so finished, and the compressed archive of patched files took only 5 minutes to download, and then maybe 10 to install.

[Alhanelem]

If you interrupt the update after downloading some files, generally it doesn't start over, but it doesn't include the downloaded files in the total count of files to download, so it always starts at 0%.

[Ladynamine]

If the download is going too slow for you, people that have already patched are providing alternate download methods to get the files faster. I'd been downloading for over 12 hours officially, and the compressed archive of patched files took only 5 minutes to download, and then maybe 10 to install.

I was like 500 files left when i saw this an hour ago. With me using a limited amount of data to download stuff, I took the bullet and finished it through slow downloading. For me to go to somewhere else and try it that way, it would eat more data than intended. (It was a good thought tho )

[oliveira]

It always check all the files on the update list the first stage of the update. It then makes a database of which ones it need to download and that's where you get that number of files to download from. It varies based on which disk expansions you had installed (now everyone have all expansions, no?). Then it download the required files naming them as "whatever.tmp2".

After that, the file they're replacing is deleted and the downloaded files are renamed to their final names (third stage, the install).
So every time you disconnect it makes the "to download" list again as it assumes the list it had before could be outdated.

Downloading update files from elsewhere may expose you to Trojan horses. Particularly third party update packs using self extracting stubs. Even though PlayOnline will only accept correct files rogue files could be put inside the game data. Honest warning. Exercise your best judgement with using those.

[bungiefanNA]

Well yes, that's a risk, but looking at the ones posted to Reddit and BlueGartr, you have a large number of people vetting them. If there was trojans, someone would notice and the admins would remove the link and ban the user.