ok i got annoyed after 4 hours of downloading over night i only got to 0.8% most of the time downloading nothing and uploading upto 4mb/s so i had a little poke around. for this you need a torrent program, my fav is uTorrent, also you have to have started the update process via the game first then close it down


so if you go to the following folder in the image bellow (the graey'd out but is your PC login name)



"C:\Users\{user}\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647"

go into the "metainfo" folder and locate te torrent file, one with the newest date is the current one trying to download



ok now put this torrent file into your favorite torrent program and compare the differences


uTorrent - 1mb/s +
Web Source - 31.1kb/s
FFXIV DL - 25.3kb/s
Torrent Tracker: http://track01.ffxiv.com:54997/announce

now once the torrent has finished locate the .patch file you just downloaded via your torrent program and copy to
"C:\Users\{user}\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647\patch"

run the game and install the update



now what way would you choose?

SO......... my question to SE is WTF are you doing to make patch downloads sooooooooooooo god damn slow using torrents?