Updater is total crap.

ive had problems w/ slow downloads on patch days before but this is a first. My upload is in the 100s while my download is nill/bits a sec so for 3 hours ive gotten no where on downloading. I shouldnt have to download on utorrent. They need to address this and give us a legit response instead of utterly ignoring this persistent problem/complaint.

at least yours is actually downloading... i got the patch off megaupload and still it stops at 99.9% for 5 min before an error message pops up... the same error message ive been seeing for nearly 4 hours now

ive been patching for 4hrs now and im at 97% :/

Pretty sure it was coded by an unpaid intern.

This happens every single patch. The best method is still to dl it using utorrent or some other way. It works in about 30 minutes and never fails for me.

Get the torrent file that ends up in your My Docs/My Games/Final Fantasy XIV folder and load that baby up in uTorrent. The FFXIV updater/downloader sucks. Don't bother.

open your ports on your router/firewalls & make sure your registry is defraged & cleaned, then you will get way faster DL speed.

took me under 10mins

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Originally Posted by indira

open your ports on your router/firewalls & make sure your registry is defraged & cleaned, then you will get way faster DL speed.

took me under 10mins

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I have to say, this is the first time on patch day that the game patcher was lightning fast for me. It was done in 10-15 minutes. No complaints.

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Originally Posted by indira

open your ports on your router/firewalls & make sure your registry is defraged & cleaned, then you will get way faster DL speed.

took me under 10mins

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Second part is bullshit. First part is relevant.

To everyone else: I've tested this out with a DMZ and the FFXIV updater is just pure crap. It has a hard-coded limit to the number of connections (and therefore a limit on the number of people you can potentially pull bandwith from) and it seems to actually have a harder time FINDING them, even through a DMZ. Using uTorrent or any other BitTorrent client worth half its salt is actually far more efficient than letting the updater download it itself.

Right after the update i launch the update then i did go do something else and when i come back it was done !!!

Mine was after then it had ever been. I barely had time to see it download. It went almost straight to installing

i have downloaded the patch through µtorrent, what do i do with it now ?

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nevermind, you have to copy and paste the downloaded patch from µtorrent folder into the FFXIV patch download folder located in my docs > my games > FFXIV etc.

it still bullshit that player have to use different method to download the patch (torrent) while this is something player should not be bother with. I dont accept torrent is a fix solve the problem but I rather have the company itself increase the bandwidth so player can update their game at ease just like every other game back then.

ps: back in 2000 the game auto update is much better than FFXIV game auto update

It took me 15mins from the updater..

download was constant 600-700kb/s and uploading was at about 400-500

I've noticed it seems to be all or nothing depending on the person. Personally I've never had a single issue with it since launch. Always works fast and reliably for me. I know people who can never get it to work for them, not one patch will download quickly.

I'm not sure what causes this but certain ISPs also have more trouble than others. Everyone I know who uses AT&T can't use the official patcher.