*grumble grumble*

Dinamira · Post by **Dinamira** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:54 am

Anyone else tired of the trouble getting the FFXI version update? 'Cause I am. :/

*hits play*
Yay! It works!
*10%...13%...18%...*
"Network Communication Error"
*STAB STAB STAB*
*....silence....*

*...hits play again*

Dukuji · Post by **Dukuji** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:49 am

You should feel lucky. My roommate can't even get there. I say wait until the morning.

Maezen · Post by **Maezen** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:13 am

it's funny how completely true that is.... anyways ima wait till tomorrow to log like Dukuji suggested, after all, all the botters have to log back in first, it's their money on the line.

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:20 am

What the heck is up with this version update? This is the most impossible update I've had to download yet.

-- Sarah

Dinamira · Post by **Dinamira** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:37 am

It's finally going... YES! Mwahahaha!!

Dukuji · Post by **Dukuji** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:40 am

Bah,

I've almost got part 2 of the update done except for the past 90 minutes it's been saying I have 1 to 2 minutes left and every minute or so it adds another second. /sigh

Back to the books . . .

/sigh I should of taken my own advice

D'oh

/em slaps her own face

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:45 am

I've had to restart the version update five times now. Grrr.

-- Sarah

Dinamira · Post by **Dinamira** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:20 am

Who could ever resist not trying to download the version update?

No one, I tell you! No one!

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:23 am

Grah. I just want to play, damnit. But I only have 5 minutes left on the download anyways. Yay.

-- Sarah

Prier · Post by **Prier** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:45 am

It took 2hr to upgrade update.

.

Post by **Shirai** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:46 am

Left my machine on last night,
this morning the update was finally finished

It did take a long time indeed, but remember fellow kitties the whole world was getting them at the same time

Gwynn · Post by **Gwynn** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:39 pm

i've had it... i spent from 5pm (just after the maintenance ended.) till 9pm rebooting, retrying, and having it fail after fail after fail...

I pray that my plants do not die because of this. if they do i'm out some 80,000 gil.

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:41 pm

One of my friends told me that the reason why this download was taking so long was because they didn't split it up between the US, Europe, and Japan -- so everyone was downloading it all at the same time on every server (hence all the lag). She said SE did this to track the gil farmers/sellers or some such thing. I'm not sure if anyone can substantiate that or not.

-- Sarah

Dinamira · Post by **Dinamira** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:23 pm

I figured it would be something like that..

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:44 pm

mozyr wrote:One of my friends told me that the reason why this download was taking so long was because they didn't split it up between the US, Europe, and Japan -- so everyone was downloading it all at the same time on every server (hence all the lag). She said SE did this to track the gil farmers/sellers or some such thing. I'm not sure if anyone can substantiate that or not.

-- Sarah

The real reason is that there is only ONE dowload server. Yes EVERYONE and their pet wiveren was trying to download through one server.

I checked the population of Garuda 5 - 10 mins after I got on, 147 total, by the time my best friend got on it was 5 hours later, and the population was ovet 1000. We starten the download process at the same time, but I got lucky.

Maezen · Post by **Maezen** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:52 pm

hope you caught some of those NM's while they were still under camped

Gwynn · Post by **Gwynn** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:11 pm

Tsybil wrote:I checked the population of Garuda 5 - 10 mins after I got on, 147 total, by the time my gest friend got on it was 5 hours later, and the population was ovet 1000. We starten the download process at the same time, but I got lucky.

man, wish i could have been lucky... i'd have warped to emperor and hunted it to extinction.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:02 pm

What a difference a day makes.

Yesterday, once connected the download process took 1:20 or 1:30. Today on another machine it took only 20 mins.

man, wish i could have been lucky... i'd have warped to emperor and hunted it to extinction.

Currently RDM 11, WHM 8, BLM 8. The only NM I could handle is Tiny Tom Tit.... like I rrrealy would even botherrr....

/deep heartfelt sigh

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:10 pm

Weird. I was under the impression that they had more than one download server, or that if they had one download server, they would have broken it down by server (Siren, Midgardsormr, etc).

I was on the allakhazam forums earlier to see if I could substantiate the claim that the reason why they had us all downloading it at the same time was to track gil sellers or whatever, but I didn't come up with anything. Where my friend got that idea -- there was nothing in the information on the POL sign-on page about it beyond that they'd be changing the AH stuff a bit -- I don't know.

-- Sarah

Rinaah · Post by **Rinaah** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:11 pm

heh.. I thought I was the only kitty with downloading problems... I guess not.

Lynnx · Post by **Lynnx** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:24 pm

It rrreally stinks if you only have Dial-up

Im so jealous of you cats that do have dsl. Feel lucky

Dinamira · Post by **Dinamira** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:05 pm

*luffs and worships his dsl*

Ziada · Post by **Ziada** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:24 pm

Even with DSL, I was unable to play the entire day of the update. I finally got it going before bed, and it was ready the next morning.

Kopopo · Post by **Kopopo** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:49 am

w00t for cable! The DSL in this city is as slow as Dial-up, or AOL.

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:57 pm

We're on a dual access T1 line at my apartment house. The problem is that we use AT&T as our internet service provider, and unknown to our apartment house, AT&T decided earlier this year that it would be a Good Idea (TM) to cut our bandwidth in half without notifying us. So I've been lagging particularly bad on the game with downloads and whatnot ever since then.

-- Sarah