takes 10 hours to download PR...

Zearo · Post by **Zearo** » 2007-05-29 08:13

This might not belong here but for me it takes 10 hours to download PR. the Mod sounds really good, and i'd quiet like to play it, but my poor internet speed does not allow it. Is there any way to mail it out or a quicker way to download it?

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2007-05-29 08:23

Mail it?? lol
No, you cant go faster then the internet...and mostly everyone's copy of PR took 9-12 hours to download...but its worth

Post by **Bob_Marley** » 2007-05-29 09:36

Heh... my copy of the v0.6 beta took one

But all the other times 8-10 hours sounds like the usual.

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-05-29 09:44

download it overnight when you sleep.

Post by **Ghostrider** » 2007-05-29 09:45

Zearo wrote:This might not belong here but for me it takes 10 hours to download PR. the Mod sounds really good, and i'd quiet like to play it, but my poor internet speed does not allow it. Is there any way to mail it out or a quicker way to download it?

Im sorry to say that there's no quicker way to get it, unless someones sends it over to you in a CD via mail, but Im sure those 10 hours would be faster than using the mail. On the other hand...it takes me 24+ hrs to download the mod...so I can't participate in BETAs because by the time I download it, stress test will be already over

EDIT: Yeah, what Rhino said. It's what I do lol

-Ghost

Post by **Hitperson** » 2007-05-29 09:46

where are the servers based??

prolly one in london if it took bob an hour.

Raegron · Post by **Raegron** » 2007-05-29 09:56

No, it's not about servers. You download through torrent, so you download from many players, not one server in particular.

I left my comp on at night and don't really know how long it took. Don't really care either

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Desertfox · Post by **Desertfox** » 2007-05-29 10:01

'[R-DEV wrote:Ghostrider']Im sorry to say that there's no quicker way to get it, unless someones sends it over to you in a CD via mail, but Im sure those 10 hours would be faster than using the mail. On the other hand...it takes me 24+ hrs to download the mod...so I can't participate in BETAs because by the time I download it, stress test will be already over

EDIT: Yeah, what Rhino said. It's what I do lol

-Ghost

Its ok! We still love you!!! =P

Gyberg · Post by **Gyberg** » 2007-05-29 10:05

Bob_Marley wrote:Heh... my copy of the v0.6 beta took one

I did it in 27 minutes

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Anyway to the subject, you dont have any friends that have a better connection and a dvd burner or a portable hdd/really big usb memory? Because that would be a good solution.

Thunder · Post by **Thunder** » 2007-05-29 10:06

mine said it would take 7 hours to download but i got it in 4. just leave it running and go do something else ( i leave it running while in work)

BaDbLiTz123 · Post by **BaDbLiTz123** » 2007-05-29 10:09

try the torrents as well because it will just constantly download

EDIT:Took me an hour though

Mester-U · Post by **Mester-U** » 2007-05-29 11:05

Its becouse there is to many that downloads it from the server. Try to download it at night or find another server to download it from. It worked for me. In the afternoon it took 5-15 hours, so i cancel it and tried at night. Then it only took 1½ hour!

Hope that helps.

Post by **bosco_** » 2007-05-29 11:09

Uhm, the question is, what kind of internet connection does the OP have?
He said "poor internet speed", so having a fast server wont help him

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Maybe someone could send him a burned copy (for a little $).

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2007-05-29 11:25

Do you pay for your internet by the hour or something like that?

If not, why can't you just wait the 10 hours?

*2Recon* · Post by ***2Recon*** » 2007-05-29 11:30

Just leave it on when you go out or sleep. 10 hours is not that long.

ZanderArch · Post by **ZanderArch** » 2007-05-29 11:33

I usually do leave downloads going while I sleep, but when the 0.6 beta came out, which I only found in .torrent form, I had to watch that like a small child with many life threatening illnesses that reacted with things which the small child was surrounded by. It was CONSTANTLY spinning down to 0 and stopped working. Funny thing I was I could watch the Seeds and Peers come back after they also restarted the download.
Thank <Insert Holy Power Here> for the loaded Queue/Cache

Top_Cat_AxJnAt · Post by **Top_Cat_AxJnAt** » 2007-05-29 11:37

mine normaly takes about 7 - 9 hours. I try to download it about 3:00pm and fail until about 8-9:00pm when i get the torrent or download to work properly. I then precede to go to bed leaving it running, however before i fall asleep i check when time i wil have to get up to install it as soon as it has finished downlaoding. This results in me arising at the god awfull hour of between 4:00 and 5:30 am, playing PR for about 2 hours and then either having breakfast or going going back to bed for about 30 mins. The overall result of this is, general high levels of happiness but feeling and looking fcking shit for the rest of the day.
This happens, roughly 3 -4 times a year, depending of number of PR versions released.
I like to think as it as a little tradition and i have also not been found doing so by my parents, which is both a myracle and relief considering the sickening irony that would insue, namely hte banning of the playing of PR for a good week or so, however much i tryed to explain to them the importance of THIS LATEST VERSION of PR i now had and all its wondefull features...........................

razor · Post by **razor** » 2007-05-29 12:24

most of u must have pretty slow connnection to take 7-10 hours, mine took 1hour for 0.5

S.A.S jackwebsterdunstan · Post by **S.A.S jackwebsterdunstan** » 2007-05-29 12:30

mine took about 6 hours, just left it on overnight and when i came down in the morning it was done

for .6 OB i used fileplanet instead of torrent and it took about 50 minutes.

ZaZZo · Post by **ZaZZo** » 2007-05-29 12:33

3,5 hours for me. I start it when i get back from school or before I go, and then do something else... This result in much more appreciated games.
btw Bosco got promoted