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First Impressions can be a B*tch

khragkhrag Member Posts: 184
in City of Heroes
Well, I decided to try the 14 day trial (I had tried the free trial of CoH when MMORPG.com had it too) so I went through the sign up process (could they make that more circular?) got everything set, and downloaded the file they had on their website. To my chagrin, it was a download, just to get to the download! Ok, I think, I can handle this. So away I go, start the download... WTF??? 25kb/s???? Ok, Ok, maybe it just needs to warm up...

2 hours later...

WTF??? 25kb/s??? 27 hours to go???

What a waste of my time.

Before you tell me to get a faster internet connection, I am on a 10mb line, so don't. I even let this run overnight last night, maybe it would pick up speed in the off hours. NOPE. Ok, so my thoughts are that if a company is selling their game online (which they are) they should at least have some bandwidth available to download from. What's the point of having a 14 day trial when the first 2 are spent just downloading the game?


I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
--Aristotle

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  • MotorheadMotorhead Member UncommonPosts: 1,193

    Odd.   I'm usually connected  at around the upper 600 kb/s.

    Try cancelling and restarting the transfer.   You won't lose what's already been transferred.

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  • ursacorursacor Member UncommonPosts: 102

    You also may want to take into consideration that our not the only one doing it.

    Also is it going though a virus checker and a firewall which will also slowdown and hinder the download?

  • AnofalyeAnofalye Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 7,433

    Originally posted by ursacor
    Also is it going though a virus checker and a firewall which will also slowdown and hinder the download?
    That is prolly the answer.  Check those programs out.

    - "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren

  • wackytwackyt Member Posts: 4
    i had the exact same problem. but mine was only going from between 4 and 7kb/s! it took me 3 straight days to update :(




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