This sucks...

[Kar]

<p>No not the game. I haven't had a chance to try it yet.</p><p>Just bought the game on disk, installed it. I know that there are many big patches, but how big are these patches?</p><p>I have T1 connection. And EQ patcher already runs for 4 hours, and is still downloading.</p><p>Seriously, is it too much trouble if SOE posts these patches on the website, like Blizzard did? The program can still autoupgraded but players can download the patches if they want because the patcher (I don't know what kind of downloading accelerator SOE uses) sucks big time.</p>

[Elorah]

<p>Which game expansion did you buy? Depending on the expansion, there could be aLOT of patches.  There will be some patches since the last expansion TSO in November.  They usually do a Game update one a month (missing a few times once in a great while)</p><p>A few things to try to see if it helps with the patching...</p><p><a class="plain" href="http://help.station.sony.com/cgi-bin/soe.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=12293&p_created=1099871058&p_sid=bTXxIIpj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=1&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX 3Jvd19jbnQ9NjcsNjcmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZ wX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPXNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9M SZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PWZpcmV3YWxs&p_li=&p_topview=1">[EQ2] <strong>Firewall</strong> and Proxy Information for EverQuest II</a></p><p>If you notice it stick on a certain file, stop the launcher and restart it...  It will pick up where it left off.</p><p>Also, some people have noticed an improvement in the patch speed on the new Beta laucher..  Might wnat to look at that.</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>Greetings,</p><p>On a T1 connection the patch shouldn't take more than 2 hours to complete.  Are you downloading the game at a University or other public institution?  The issue you're describing sounds like it's being caused by a publicly run router with some blocked ports.</p>