Guild Wars download speeds

[deSade]

Hi

Is it just me, or does anyone else sometimes get shockingly bad download speeds when getting into the game?

Tonight I picked my normal character, clicked next to start the gameworld up & was getting an average download speed of arounf 4kps!!!!! (10meg cable broadband BTW).

 

[joeyjojo]

Checked just now for you. Yes, very slow, less than 20k :/

 

[Azagoth]

That's because there's probably hundred's of thousands of people all downloading the new content at the same time. Pick the right time and it's just fine. I downloaded the new update at 04:30 this morning and got it done in around 5 minutes at a 700kB download speed.

I had my first Hero at 05:00, shame I can't use him yet though.

 

[hola_adios]

2 million users must clog a lot of bandwith , plus we all anxious to check al the new stuff.

 

[chimaera]

Aye, you couldn't have picked a worse time, all the US and International servers are getting filled up, plus the EU players are out in force.

 

[mark_t50]

It seems really bad at the minute. I've just installed Nightfall and was going through the tutorial, I got to this bit where you enter the first village and it's now downloading content at 1 - 3 kbps says that there are 3244 files remaining as well.

Seems a bit strange to have to download so much when the game has only just been released. Ah well, gonna take hours at this rate.

 

[Mp4]

I have Gulidwars but none of the expansions for it. I could never get into the game atall, Would the expantions help atall? are they worth getting?

 

[BloodWolf]

I get bad speeds, around 30kb/s..its always been like this for me

 

[VeNT]

this is mad, I just tryed to login and I can't get ANYWHERE!
bugger this for a lark, I'm gonna play some EVE

 

[chimaera]

Yeah i'm getting fed up of the speeds, about 1-2 kbs per sec tonight, i figure i'll wait a week and go back to it, i'd rather take my time anyway.