Issues, Workarounds & Localization

Try using the gear button top right on launcher and use the repair tool to patch that way. Will still be slow but might actually work.

Same problem here, U-verse in Louisiana; I'm almost done dl the patch but it took about 5 hours and it wasn't stable; over the last 30 min it went up 40%. It would get bursts of speeds then stop and repeat; it peaked at 90% then just stopped. Not all that convinced it will even work when it does hit 100%. It's reassuring to see that this thread is almost 3 months old and not a single f-ing dev has even acknowledged the problem because I just love wasting $30 a month for a game that hires devs to spend all day with their heads in their lap enjoying the smell of their own farts.

I'm also getting these mysteriously slow download speeds. Currently 8 KB/s. I'm on AT&T as well and live in Houston.

What the heck is going on with southerners and AT&T?

Same issues here - also a U-verse customer. Read through this thread and looked for the common denominator - called U-verse technical support and they do report 2 major service outages in different areas of the country which started today. I had no issues connecting to EVE yesterday. Problem started today. ATT U-verse technical support rep did not have any ETA on when service would be back up in the 2 areas affected. If your data route to the EVE server passes through those affected areas then this might be the cause of the issues we are all experiencing. Nothing to do but just sit and wait for U-verse to get their act together.

U-Verse in Austin checking in.

This patch is so soul crushingly slow (I have never seen speeds measured in bits/second before!) that my roommate is raging and in fact unsubscribed. While I sit here bemused at his rash actions, I can't do **** and have a POS to fuel.

I started using a VPN and now it works just fine.

Uverse Houston here been having the same issues. Had this with the last patch as well with both the launcher and the repair client. Updated the 104mb Diablo patch in about 20 secs while watching the repair tool move along at 6.42kb/s. Started installing a game on Steam out of boredom and that going at about 2.7 mb/s...So fun stuff

Good news is that last time I gave up and tried installing the patch the next morning and it got done in about a minute. Looks like no eve tonight though

It's July - I have a 100 Mbps TWC connection in Austin TX and downloading the client is at 8 Mbps or less. Very strange.

I have the same.. Sorry for bump.

Same problem.

I'm using the eve repair tool on Linux/Wine for patching. It starts to download a 750MByte Patch.
Roughly the first 500 MByte of that patch download at 1MByte per second, then the speed drops to 7 to 12 kByte per second.
Same thing repeats after restarting the repair tool. Again about the first 500MByte download fast, then it gets super slow.

I did a tcpdump to take a look at the network traffic and what I find quite strange is that the packet size of the incoming network traffic seems so small for a file download. The packets have mostly a size between 36 and 300 bytes small, maybe 150 Bytes on average.

I think that's quite odd. Usually I'd expect almost all packets having max size of 1448 bytes for my connection during a large file download. No idea, whether there is some sort of network throttling in place. I'm no expert.