Guild Wars download speeds

Soldato
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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).
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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