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

[MarsProbe]

I remember having to leave a WoW update on overnight in order for it to finish...so that could have been around 8 hours.

I never finished the download, but back in the 56k days, the computer estimated one of my downloads as likely to take in excess of 1700 days!

 

[D_987]

The Xbox live Battlefield : Bad Company demo took 3 hours to download for some reason - especially as everything else takes mere minutes.

 

[kommando367]

16 hours, forgot what it was for though, probably an mmo.

 

[paiged]

I think when I was 11 and still had dial-up I used to wait 2-3 hours for music and 20 hours and up for episodes of tv shows I liked.

Although, I went on a downloading spree when I first started getting into anime, and Death Note took about a week give or take a day or two. I was downloading so much at once though, it took almost two months to get through five or six shows...and then my laptop crashed.

 

[all the tramps]

my 360 is chipped so i download my games longet its taken me was 3-4days but thats what i get for multi downloading :/

 

[Abedeus]

I remember I tried downloading a TV series for my sister. It were vacations and I went to my cousins for 2 weeks. I set my PC to close at 8 and boot up at 20 (I have a faster connection at nights, and it was cheaper this way). Est. time left was 2 weeks.

Two weeks later I came back, ET was... 2 weeks. It didn't move more than 3% over that whole time. Then my sis told me to screw it and she deleted the download.

Well, I tried to download Ragnarok Online...

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

Here, here. I've downloaded RO few times already, and one time I tried to download it from 10 AM to 6 PM, then it finally managed to download by 11 PM. I was lucky it was only 5 hours.

 

[kjrubberducky]

I remember downloading the Witcher from Steam. Left it running for the whole day, came home to find it on 6 percent. It turned out that my brother had disconnected the DSL modem, because it kept "freezing up." I explained that I was hogging the bandwidth, and it took about a day and a half more to get it all downloaded. It was like, 15 GB, or something like that.

 

[TheDoctor455]

PC... Trying to download the "Cinematic Mod" for HL2. 8 fucking hours!

 

[scotth266]

Well, I tried to download Ragnarok Online...

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

Here, here. I've downloaded RO few times already, and one time I tried to download it from 10 AM to 6 PM, then it finally managed to download by 11 PM. I was lucky it was only 5 hours.

Even funnier: I hated the crud outta that game. Go figure, considering that is the longest download I ever made...

 

[AutumnGold]

about 3 days non stop (CS:S Install/Download Files on Dial-up)

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

I'd guess a day on dial-up, but I can't remember for the life of me what it was. Ahh well.

 

[balimuzz]

4 day download of KoTOR. I win.

 

[sms_117b]

No Idea how long it was but the file size is 45Gb, took a few weeks. Can't remember if I was starting and stopping though

Edit: Was series 1 - 6 of Mythbusters

 

[Ashbax]

When I had to re-install wow WITH all patches, on my Old laptop on a slow internet day. about 15 hours.

 

[azadiscool]

Broadband, 10 hours for Sony Vegas Pro... sort of legally...

Wow, I lose.

 

[azadiscool]

+10 win points

 

[NoNameMcgee]

2 weeks downloading GTA san andreas (about 3.5 GB) at a constant 3kb/s, every now and then shooting up to an INCREDIBLE 10kb/s for a short time.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

took me 5 days on non-stop downloadng to get a patch for BF2142. and then i found out the file was corrupted and wouldnt launch the patcher.

 

[tumeg828]

2 days on.. hm i don't even remember what it was rly..