08-22-2008, 02:31 PM
Quote:Well I was hoping to start to my little Wrath of the Lich King Beta updates posts today, but I'm still getting patches.
1.88 GB client download that took about an hour to install after download.
55 MB patch quick install
241 MB patch 10 minutes to install
22 MB patch quick install
501 MB patch about 30 minutes to install
130 MB patch about 15 minutes to install
667 MB patch still downloading.
I'm averaging about 120 KB/s on the downloads (which isn't bad for my connection speed since I can't get much more than about 175 KB/s on the bandwidth I have and since I've been using my net for other stuff while downloading a lot of the time.)
So that is about 503 minutes of download time or 8 hours 23 minutes of download time and at least 2 hours of install. And I'm not sure how much more I have to go.
But I do plan on posting about my experiences. Stuff that anyone who has really been following the expansion probably already knows, but I'm still planning on doing it if I can ever get to a point where I can play the game. :)
I had everything patched up and ready to play yesterday only to return from work and discover that Blizzard had taken the beta servers offline to prepare for that 667MB patch. /sigh.
For anyone keeping score at home, it's ~2.7GB of downloads which extract and install into a 14GB Wrath directory. If you have normal BC-WoW installed (they don't share anything) you're looking at ~22GB of WoW.