This update actually wasn't too bad for me, after the last update, I made modifications to what my firewall allows through, and that seemed to clear up the worst of my problems. It still took me about 2 1/2 hours and wasn't downloading at the highest speed available to me, but it least it didn't hit 0.0 for hours on end.

Still I agree that this updater is terrible, a consumer should not be expected to have a degree in computer networking just to update a game. to those who are still having problems:

- try the bittorrent
- try forwarding ports in your router (assuming you know how)
- try checking your firewall, and what it allows. (you may have to manually set FFXIV to "allowed" status.)