How long should it take to get CoH up and running?

I'm sure the answer is one of those 'piece of string' answers but my friend played the game at mine at the weekend and went home to try the two week free trial.

She's been downloading since last night at 7 p.m. - is this right? She has good broadband and isn't using any other web based programmes.

Cheers

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That's way too long. Restart the download. Generally it will pick up where it left off, not start from scratch.

You may also want to check your supplier's policy on large downloads during peak periods. Your bandwidth may be getting throttled.

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Thanks for the response (she's tearing her hair out 'cos I got her hooked and she can't wait the 58hrs the updater is telling her)

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sometimes mine runs really slow updating but my gf's connection is fine and we both use same BB provider and have same BB speeds! Saying that though mine tends to run a lot faster after 9pm

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Have you got a flash drive or something you can take the game around on? My CoH back up is on a flash drive cause you can just copy the game to anywhere and repoint the shortcut

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Have you got a flash drive or something you can take the game around on? My CoH back up is on a flash drive cause you can just copy the game to anywhere and repoint the shortcut

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can zip it up and fit it on a 2gb usb stick. was faster to do that than copy over network when i wanted to see if my laptop played CoH

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Thanks for the advice - will memory-stick it and let you know -(unbelieveably she's still downloading it so I think there must be something wrong somewhere in spite of the patch-fest)

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Is she on a 56k dial up or something? heh.

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Also worth picking up the GvE edition on CD rom... that's the first 7 issues and some nice freebies and gives you a months game play in the purchase price too so well worth it

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