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Download 600MB From The EU -- For A Demo?

Posted by timothy on from the use-the-new-transpacific-tunnel dept.

Baddas writes: "Anarchy Online, a MMORPG from Funcom scheduled to come out on the 27th of July, is currently in it's 4th series of beta testing. This beta has about 100,000 people involved by mailed keys. However, the more interesting thing is that each of these people has to download a CD worth of information from servers mostly located in the EU. This may well be one of the largest tests of trans-continental bandwidth ever, as I've never heard of 100,000 people trying to download a single game in the space of 3 days or so (the length of time the emails went out over). This isn't some 150Mb D2 test or something, this is a full 600Mb of data. I think this could be an ideal location to use Swarmcast from OpenCola, since they could enable all of us waiting on this side of the pond to get the files."

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  1. Hard enough time already... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    I've been having a hard enough time getting the CD image and now you /. it? ARE YOU MAD?

    Gee /., thanks a lot.

    (jerks)

  2. usenet by NMerriam · · Score: 5

    Or you could just wait for it to show up on Usenet warez groups (approximately 12 seconds after release)...

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  3. Re:If they're mailing the keys, why... by rommi · · Score: 5

    Actually, they are not mailing the keys, they are e-mailing the keys.

    I know that, because I received one.