Guild Wars 2

I am trying to download Guild Wars 2 on to my Laptop using Wi-Fi and when i open the client it will start downloading at about 2 mb/s and then suddenly start dropping to kb/s and eventually go to 0kb/s and stop downloading.

It shows a running average and instead of immediately dropping to zero when it’s done, you see it fall off until it reaches zero.

There are usually 3 download periods for a patch that will also patch the dat file with pauses in between. Also the dat file is really a collection of files and depending on the size of each of these files the download rate can vary greatly with large files showing a high download rate while lots of small files dragging the rate way down.

I’m just recounting what I see when I also have a download monitor up graphing the download rate while patching.

It happens to everyone, pretty much. Just either leave it running, or restart it. Be aware, with each restart the percentage shown will drop to zero; the percentage shows how much of the percentage of files has downloaded each session.

If the download really gets stuck, you can find trouble-shooting articles in the Knowledge Base accessed via the ‘Support’ link above/below.

Good luck.