Lunazure

Hey all. I have an update! The test server install process seems to be working now...albeit very slowly. I left it on all day yesterday, quite literally; the good thing is that nothing ever got stalled, it went straight through and finally finished downloading. I'm finally in!

There is one thing I'd like to note. It's probably a coincidence, but on the off chance it isn't, I figured I should post it here just in case. About halfway through the update process (554/998M downloaded), I started playing Guild Wars. At the time it was running at about 20 kb/sec and claimed to have about 5 hours 38 minutes left before finishing. Here's where it gets interesting.

I only played Guild Wars for about 1 hour, if that. When I closed down Guild Wars, however, I found that the test client was completely finished downloading. Again this is probably a coincidence - the client may have dramatically picked up speed at some point for whatever reason - but the timing was awfully convenient.

So - if you have Guild Wars and you still haven't been able to download the test client - go ahead and test this theory. I am really curious to know if Guild Wars really did somehow give the CoHTest updater a boost. Based on what I know about networking it is possible, but not likely. If anyone ends up trying this, post here on what you find.

I've got the same exact issue and it just started about 3 hours ago. I left it on overnight because it had made great progress (330/948MB downloaded!). I figured 'hey , it's a third of the way there finally! May as well leave this on while I sleep!'

Right...well this morning I was greeted with a smaller progress bar. It was all gone. It was now reading 38b/948MB, and it was stuck fixing pigg files. Now no matter what I do, even if I refresh the entire process, it gets stuck on fixing the sound.pigg file at 8b/sec.

Well, here's hoping the issue gets solved soon. Maybe NC or Paragon will figure something out on their end.

If anyone has any clues or suggestions about how we might be able to speed things up or fix the current issue ourselves, please don't hesitate to post!

Does this still work?

I've been trying it for two days now, and it never goes as planned. I've followed this and the official test serve installation process multiple times now, and it always results in the same thing happening. The updater ultimate ends up "fixing" files at less than 10kb/sec, stating that it's going to take upwards of 10 hours but never getting more than 1/4 of the way through. Sometimes I don't even get the CohTest installation popup when I run the shortcut for the updater.

What am I doing wrong?