UK People - a mutually beneficial offer. Mods, delete if this isn't appropriate

[Raen Ryong]

Hi BG! Long time no see and stuff.

I pre-ordered the game and such but was forced to relocate across the country to rural Wales with my family until I can find another job (interview today, so here's hoping) - and the internet here is shocking. Like, almost dialup levels of shocking. The latency is good enough to play the game, but I cannot download its patches. They only resume beyond certain points which require me to allocate ~18 hours per downloaded 1~1.5gb part. The servers often timeout midway through, making this a frustrating process.

The meat of the matter: I am willing to pay for someone to either buy/send me a 16gb+ flash drive with the full contents of the game on it (ie client + all current patches). I will pay for the cost of the flash drive + fast postage + an extra which we will agree upon, via direct bank transfer or paypal.

This is an entirely serious offer and I'm not new to BG so hopefully I have some credibility. Please PM me if you are interested and don't start the process on your own as I am posting this in several places for a quick response and don't want anyone to waste time/money on my behalf.

[Zzsark]

There is a torrent of the early release client + patch.... should be able to DL that?

[SamanosukeShiva]

well, as he said, downloading for him would be really slow.

[chichicha]

Funny enough...
I moved out to Asia, and need to bother friend to ship my amazon physical product.
But you need someone to do the same in UK.
Well, if nobody in UK offer you, I can but takes up to 5 days minimum to arrive your side.

Hmm... I may not ask for your money but instead might ask you to help me getting CE digital code. If something not working over my side here. And of course will pay you the balance for sure.

Just toss this out, since you are posting here to ask for favour

Btw, what we have downloaded is around 9gb in total.

[Phix]

Raen get on GW i'll hook you up man !

[Raen Ryong]

Thanks for responses guys - got a new router today as my ISP got tired of my bitching about the line; going to see if the connection is stable enough to download overnight. If not, I will update.

[Ambiant]

If you use a torrent, you can also use DAP, a continuous download manager that supports pause and resume on downloads. I used to be on dial up so i know your pain and DAP (Download Accelerator Plus) helped immensely. Yes it's free, with an option to upgrade if you pay which i never bothered with.

Here is a link if you need one: http://www.speedbit.com/dap/

Don't bother with the SpeedBit addon, its annoying.

[Raen Ryong]

I'll keep that program in mind for future downloads - thanks!

Getting a brand new router actually fixed the problems I have been experiencing sufficiently enough to download it - sorry for wasting everyone's time, but I do appreciate the responses I got! I was told multiple times that my problem was solely the line and changing the router wouldn't do anything, but this only shows just how much a bad router can screw your connection (my download speed has doubled/ping halved and stability drastically increased since the switch).