Guild Wars 2

During a recent patch my wife’s computer froze, trying to re download the game. Hoawever the download caps around 1.4 I am curious if this is my end or anets. Speed test show my Max at 10x this

The downside is this is not the first time I have had to redownload the game due to her comp freaking out. I have an opportunity to upgrade my internet speed but am debating the cost. Would I see her game reinstslled faster or is it capped on anets end

Are you confusing bytes with bits? Here in the US (since I don’t know where you are from) Internet service levels are in bits/seconds but most downloaders report in bytes per second. Then you have the whole kibi/mebi vs kilo/mega suffix issue and it’s easy to get confused.

Altogether it’s close to 10x the difference between megabits/sec Vs mebibytes/sec.

That could be it. Only thing is we can both patch concurrent at the same 1.4

That’s what got me wondering if it was limited

Behellagh what do you top at in the gw2 launcher?

Well if you are both getting 1.4 megabytes a second then maybe it is capped, or you are just splitting a 30 megabit connection.

Don’t know what you mean by “top at in the gw2 launcher”? There isn’t anything special there. It looks like the launcher. Like this.

Nope, it’s just limited by your Internets’ bandwidth. If you have a 15mb/s download connection, gw2 shows that as roughly ~1.6MB/s.

Note the capital and lowercase…capital=bytes, lowercase=bits.

Alright thanks. As for top at that was supposed to be top out at. Ie what is your max.

But nope def have a 10 megabit atm and no matter if we are both on our just one we cap out at 1.4

Just struck me as odd. Having to redownload sucks and becuase her comp is prone to fits of freezing that pop up and we have never figured out why. It just takes a while to do it every month or so becuase the repair kicks in and forces a complete dl

Am moving soon and the new place will have faster internet. Was wondering if waiting would let it dl faster

Btw, you can make a backup of your gw2.dat file (from a working copy of gw2), then, instead of downloading all ~17.5GB, you just have to stop the installer once it tried to download the whole client data file, paste the dat file over top of the new, small one (overwriting it), then re-open the client and let it just finalise the misc files and updates.

Just save this backup externally so if you ever have to reload your system, you don’t lose it.

Thanks hadn’t thought of that. Do you see any issue with copying mine to an external deive and then copying it to her comp? Or should I pay it safe and stick to hers?

Nope, you can do that!!!

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Thanks hadn’t thought of that. Do you see any issue with copying mine to an external deive and then copying it to her comp? Or should I pay it safe and stick to hers?

External USB hard drive is works.

USB thumb drives not as well because they (well the ones I have) are formatted as FAT32 which has a 4GB limit on file size. So I used 7z to split the the nearly 16GB dat file into a bunch of CDROM size chunks, as DVD size chunks are still greater than 4GB, and then reconstituted it on the target system.