I bought it from ebay as a digital duluxe download, very trusted seller sold many before, ok so later on that day i recieved a email with the redemption key and the website on where to redeem(Startrekonline.com) i redeemed it payed for the fee getting my 30 days free aswell, so this is when it goes bad i click download Star Trak Online Downloader it starts to download it proccesses then it says 9kb/ps or something thats horredously low it would take like a year to download and it definatly not my internet seeing as i get 6 megbits a second when i test my speed on speedtest.net and my upload is like 500 killerbits a second or something pretty good i then try to download via torrent same again 9 killabits a second please help or i just wasted 30£ and so far i not pleased at all with Cryptic they should provided more help so i can talk to them instead of forums, i cant send a ticket for the help for some reason. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!
ok dont shoot me i may be a bit wrong here but IIRC the game downloader uses a form of torrent to download the content now many ISP's these days limit the bandwidth used certain well known ports used by P2P (torrents etc) at peek usage times, youll need to check with your ISP what these times are. this would certainly explain why its slow when your downloading via torrent and the downloader
if your ISP is using these restrictions you will find the speeds of downloading increase at othertimes
or
you could try a torrent downloader that allows you to change the ports it uses this should get arround the port filtering, the only one i know of is Azureus Vuze but it can be rather resource intensive and anything else your using will get a lower priority on system resources unless you use task manager to lower the Vuze process priority to low
It sounds like you're tring to use the STO Downloader I tried using when STO first got out of Beta. The site downloader can be ridiculously slow (no offense Cryptic, you need bandwidth for the servers).
Whats I did to get around this was go to File Planet and subscribe using their special membership ($5 about) to download the game from their dedicated download servers. You'll find that it will download MUCH faster from sites like this that are specialized in doing this.
It works now it was only downloading at 700 killabits a second tho but it still worked, now i installing the setup thing. I guess it was usage overload ta.
I left it to go for some breakfast but when i came back it was still at bin.hoggs i think it was, so it seems it wasnt working, the pictures where still moveing and the bar was still flash like it does but it was not moving up, i am starting to doubt the capability of Cryptic. Please help.
It sounds like you're tring to use the STO Downloader I tried using when STO first got out of Beta. The site downloader can be ridiculously slow (no offense Cryptic, you need bandwidth for the servers).
Whats I did to get around this was go to File Planet and subscribe using their special membership ($5 about) to download the game from their dedicated download servers. You'll find that it will download MUCH faster from sites like this that are specialized in doing this.
Ok ive been out the whole day until now, its been installing on the setup, when i left it was one /bins.hogg at the end and now im back its at /bins.hogg i am gonna try to download from file planet and hope it works or that was a COMPLETE waste of £20, as it seems the setup dont work on the torrent...
Atomic gamer's is slightly more updated than the other 3, though you'll still need to update regardless of which one you choose.
Also it's a kilo, not killa.
Ok so i redownloaded via Fileplanet as they are very good, so i do the same as before get to the setup and just in case i run as admin even though you don't need to in Windows 7. Ok so i got the the same bit as last time but i got the whole thing as it may help you guys to help me:) The full thing it said and was stuck on was:
Copy to C:\Users\Public\Games\Cryptic Studios\Star Trek Online\Live\Piggs\bins.hogg
If this helps please tell me what it helps in, it gets stuck there and really slows my pc down so everything stops responding pretty much, but it definatly hasnt frozen because the pictures are changing, and so i cant even get to the start menu i have to power down via the plug.
Does this help at all? Please say it does! As im going to ask for a refund soon, as i've tryed many things.
the hogg files are larger files and take time to download and install. (as the patch installs as soon as a file is download and not when ithe entire patch is downloads.
By the way you never mentioned what type of internet connection are you using. (dial up, wired , wireless etc)
I am using Wireless, and i no but the thing is i left it from 11:30-5:20.... that should be enough for one file.
I have good internet and am upgrading to Virgin Media 50MB as were overusing lol.
Im not on virgin yet considering it or going to wait for BT Infintity to come to the area and get that. and there good lol. and my router is basically next to me
Oh woah i am really impressed with the bloody customer service, i ask a ticket and give lots of details and they just ask me more questions and then ****ing close the question... usless ****ers
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if your ISP is using these restrictions you will find the speeds of downloading increase at othertimes
or
you could try a torrent downloader that allows you to change the ports it uses this should get arround the port filtering, the only one i know of is Azureus Vuze but it can be rather resource intensive and anything else your using will get a lower priority on system resources unless you use task manager to lower the Vuze process priority to low
Whats I did to get around this was go to File Planet and subscribe using their special membership ($5 about) to download the game from their dedicated download servers. You'll find that it will download MUCH faster from sites like this that are specialized in doing this.
This should work ALOT better for you
Unlikely, I tried that when I was using that and it progressed at the same rate
I still suggest this...
http://www.atomicgamer.com/files/83587/star-trek-online-client
http://www.gamershell.com/download_54822.shtml
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/16562/Star+Trek+Online+Open+Beta+Client
Atomic gamer's is slightly more updated than the other 3, though you'll still need to update regardless of which one you choose.
Also it's a kilo, not killa.
Copy to C:\Users\Public\Games\Cryptic Studios\Star Trek Online\Live\Piggs\bins.hogg
If this helps please tell me what it helps in, it gets stuck there and really slows my pc down so everything stops responding pretty much, but it definatly hasnt frozen because the pictures are changing, and so i cant even get to the start menu i have to power down via the plug.
Does this help at all? Please say it does!
By the way you never mentioned what type of internet connection are you using. (dial up, wired , wireless etc)
I have good internet and am upgrading to Virgin Media 50MB as were overusing lol.
if you are using Vista , Vista normal network searching could be interupting the download.
see this link
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1380507