Star Trek Online's open beta started yesterday, and I am one of the many beta testers who's still trying to download the client software. I first attempted my download Monday night via FilePlanet, but after after an overnight download session, I was only able to transfer less than 10%! At that rate, the beta would be over before I would be able to even start. Not acceptable!
I've never used torrents before, but with the ridiculous download rates from the other hosting services, I went ahead and gave the torrent a try. So far, I've been able to get a transfer rate between 5 - 500 KB/sec. It's still downloading, but is almost complete. After the download is complete, I plan to keep my copy of the file available for "seeding" to the other torrent users to help them out as well.
I've read online that after the client download, there's a 10 gig patch process! I hope that goes much faster than the client...
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