Turn on the patch server already

[Silverbane]

I can download at a max of 40 KB/s. Judging from previous main content patches, I'm expecting this patch to be between 1 GB and 1.5 GB. That means a download time of 8-12 hours for me. THAT is the 'rush'.

Got a friend with a 4G cellphone, and do live in an area with 4G coverage? Then ask your friend to setup a hotspot or tether to your system to let you download the game, it will probably be faster. Even the slowest 4G network can download 1.4GB in about an hour, others do it in 5-10 minutes, according to this report

[Silverbane]

If I understand correctly, data like that found in Garland Tools (which I love) is obtained by data-mining the client. It is reasonable to believe that shortly after SE releases the new client for download, data-mining will begin.

Now, it seems SE has a policy of keeping some patch information back to prevent first-movers getting too much of an advantage; delaying the release of the new client until shortly before the servers go back live may be a component of that policy. In determining when to release the client, SE may be trying to balance typical download times against how quickly data-miners have been able to mine the client in the past, so that the data-miners are starting to get and present info about the same time that the servers go live.

Or maybe not. It's just an hypothesis.