Another "leaving " post.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect downloads to have a resume capability in 2019. Just sayin'....

[kaiomaga]

Um the client does support a resume download, it just requires a certain % to have been downloaded first. I have similar problem when downloading updates (took me 2 hours to complete this patch) where after so long i get an error. To fix this i normally change my DNS to the public Google DNS which normally allows me to get to whatever % so the download can resume if it fails again. After this i switch back to my default DNS and hey presto, download will complete on it's own.

[Aomine1992]

Yea when I was outside of the US for a little it was a nightmare to download patches on this game. SE does need to work on that, their game can't be super friendly in certain places but extremely incapable in others. Yes there won't be the same speeds everywhere but it's either good or extremely limited with no in-between.

[Dsherman]

When FFXIV is downloading an update, it downloads a series of files. The files can vary in size rather greatly from just a teeny tiny thing to around 1.440 gig.

Each time one of those files completes a download, the updater will apply that file to the game data right away, then resume downloading on the next file.

My experience has been that if the download is interrupted, the download will pick up at the beginning of whatever file was in progress at the time the interrupt occurred. It will not have to re-do any files that were already completed.

Unfortunately, the very first file is usually one of the very biggest files to be downloaded. Which could leave you starting over from the very beginning several times if your internet is really that bad since it can take a while to complete that very first file.