Longest download time (2%...............)

[E-mantheseeker]

What is the longest period of time you spent waiting for a download to complete, and what were you trying to download?

+50 points if you were on dialup and you actually waited until the download completed

Edit: you can also say the longest estimated download time you have seen

 

[Teachingaddict]

Hmmm 24 hours for a Tribes Sierra Update - dial up

 

[CosmicGrenade]

What is the longest period of time you spent waiting for a download to complete, and what were you trying to download?

+50 points if you were on dialup and you actually waited until the download completed

w00t i get +50 points
Downloading music and had to reconnect every 2 hours >< (it was alot of music)

 

[Trivun]

I can't remember, I fell asleep...

 

[FallenRainbows]

DOWII from steam. Only Steam game I have so yeah it took longer than anything else. Time frame? I dunno... but long.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

Probably my torrent of Fallout 3. Took me a good three weeks (I set it to download at around 30KB a second so that my dad wouldn't notice the spike in bandwidth usage).

 

[GodsOneMistake]

About a day for a sucky ass demo lucky me

 

[Hazy]

Like.. 3 hours for The Shivering Isles. My connection was horrible that day.

 

[Zacharine]

Quake demo with a dialup modem. Took something like 10 hours.

 

[tenlong]

a multi season anime that took 2 months on dial up 54 mbs connection to finish.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I downloaded WoW, on a bad internet connection, that took, well I dunno, I went to bad after a couple of hours.

 

[neuromasser]

About 45 days for all episodes of Seinfeld. I would bought it ten times over, if it was available here :/

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

I gave up trying to download WoW on my older, more crappy computer after it gave me a possible forecast of a few-hour-download. I am NOT waiting that long for any download. I don't care how good the game or whatever is. It can't be worth it.

 

[Levziemuch]

Everquest on dialup /wrist

 

[scotth266]

Well, I tried to download Ragnarok Online...

7 hours later it tells me that it failed about 5 hours in. WHOO HOO!

 

[xitel]

3 Days downloading a mod for C&C: Renegade on Juno. And yes, I did wait for it to finish.

 

[Chipperz]

The last 2 patches for Warcraft took 11 hours on Tuesday. It was actually faster on my mum's dial-up at home...

Beyond that... When I first got City of Heroes, all the patches took 8 hours, the Heavenly Sword demo took 80 minutes (which is roughly 40 times it's length...) and Anarchy Online took 5 hours.

 

[somerandomguy76]

My policy on downloads is: "If it takes longer than an hour and isn't a critical update for something, it ain't worth it."