hi there ! i got fallout 4 as a christmas present and set it to dowload about 3 and a half hours ago , my friend said it should only take 20-30 minutes to dowload but it took 3 and a half hours and still has not fully dowloaded yet . i am on xbox one aswell and have plenty of data for it to hold the full game. Finally it was stuck on 42% for about 45 mins and looks like its going to do the same for 43% so could someone please inform me on how to speed the process or what i should do .

Thankyou,

Billy

Sorry can't help, I downloaded it when I went to bed. All I knew it took forever to do. You are talking what 25+ gigabytes, so yeah it is going to take a very long time to download.

I'll guess that some of it may depend on the type of connection you actually have to the internet.

STEAM is about completely locked up right now due to sales I assume. May be something similar with your download also.

Steam is getting hammered today. Took me forever just to add a $100 gift card to my wallet so I would expect the DL servers to be just as bad today. Happens every year, but wait a day or two and it'll be back to being it's normal zippy self.

Well, all depends on your internet connection and how many others are also trying to download the game, Billy. Hang in there!

your friend probably has a better internet connection than you

I don't understand the poll.

Depends where you are. I live south of DC, very modern happening place. 50mps download had me playing my game in no time. But if your off in Hoboken, guess your probably going to be waiting a bit longer

Servers busy it is xmas

Did you just make a poll for yourself to vote in, or is other people suppose to understand the options? I don't.

This poll is obviously biased.

Well, it's obvious. It depends on your internet connection. It took ten hours in my case, since I live in a rural area.

20-30 minutes...?

that means you'd have to have a download speed of like 1 Gb/min...

if you can download this game that fast, please refer me to your ISP

for the rest of us, this game (like most) takes more than a few hours to download (not even counting server lag)

this. It's not unusual for servers to crash too

Mine took almost 3 hours on a 30MB down line.

I was getting full, to better than full speed (up to 35) most of the time with a few drops. I was surprised considering it was during peak periods in the evening.

(My ISP is known for over saturated nodes. Thankfully they upgraded mine a couple years back, and have yet to oversell it again...which happens quite a bit reading their forums.)

So yeah, as mentioned it all depends on what your connection speed is and if you are getting that full speed. Nothing can be done to make it faster. It is what it is.

Well, or he's installing on a console off disc, in which case he probably only has to download a small portion.

But either way, pretty sure everyone's servers are being hammered, as every kid who got a game/console this morning is downloading patches/digital games/etc.

I had to wait about three and a half hours for the game to get installed when I picked up the game. Playing on PC, but picked it up on release.

Lol at that poll

Well i did download it in under 40 mins from steam(AVG dl speed betwen 11-12MB/s), so a 150MB fibre line should be more than capable of DL it in under 30mins (incase you are interested i use 100/10 fibre line and it cost under 30 euros per month, can upgrade it up to 200/200 but that wud cost me around 200 euros per month)

To answer to the OP it depends on your ISP speed and how busy the DL server is atm(should be pretty busy today)

About 5 hours where I was. I expected it to take much longer than that. If you always expect the worst, then you will usually be pleasantly surprised. If you always expect the best, then expect a lot of disappointment.

in case you haven't heard the network speeds in the US are garbage and you only get 2, maybe 3 choices of providers in an area at best. Because it's so manipulated and controlled we're behind most developing nations when internet access is concerned (and it's only set to get worse with the fascist policies their proposing, carriers here have been trying for years to charge us by the byte, they always have with mobile access)

I have heard that you guys in USA still have to suffer the monthly DL caps which is something unheard of in most of Europe since the days old dial-up modems went out of use(mobile service providers do still have it even here, but its not expensive to upgrade to unlimited DL amounts even there, for example unlimited DL LTE home line costs 40 euors per month, 20/5 MB), but i didnt know you also have problems with actual DL speeds as well since here its common to use fibre lines almost everywhere except in the most rural areas(where they are limited to DSL lines or mobile options LTE/4G)

Verizon FiOS Quantum. 95-100 mbps both ways. Average 11 megabytes per second through Steam Client. Approximately 650MB per minute. Yes.

Blizzard download locations are less limiting and every time I wipe I re-download WoW and the others via Bnet Launcher at up to 14 megabytes per second.

When Windows 10 launched and Mircrosoft had paid dolla dollas to open things up around the world I saw speeds from Bnet and even whever the heck FFXIV comes from pushing 21 megabytes per second.... I nearly wet myself.

Oh, FiOS is cheap compared to the screwballs over at Comcast. I'll never give them another dime. #fibermasterrace

Which is less than I pay for 30/5 from Comcast. My Steam downloads at 2MB/s. Fallout 4 took me 3.5-4 hours, back in November.

(And as I understand it, we don't actually have fiber in most places. Verizon was laying FIOS lines a few years ago, but apparently stopped doing it because it was cheaper/more profitable to just convince everyone to go for wireless. I think they started laying fibre again due to Google doing it, but overall fiber access in the US is pretty low. And more expensive.)

...hmm, looking at Verizon's page. They only seem to list cable/internet/phone service bundles. 100/100 internet + basic cable & phone is $90/mo for the first year, 110/mo second year, plus at least $30/mo for equipment rental (extra cable boxes/DVR/etc generally costs extra). Oh, plus "taxes and other fees". Whee!

edit: oh, hey, there's non-bundle rates. 100/100 fiber is $55/mo first year, $65/mo second year, and then "standard rates" after month 25. Plus $10/mo router rental, taxes, and "fees". (as you can tell, cable & internet contracts in the US are all about vague "deals", hidden costs, and similar things.)

Can't find a current & decent map of coverage, but found an article from early 2014 that said FIOS was available to ~12% of the US population.

I had 40 Mb FIOS in the ghetto in Tampa like 6 yrs ago for like 45 bucks...they still do not offer that here in my area (which is mindboggling), best you can get here is like 10-12 Mb/s and it's iffy...all thanks to the wonderful FCC regulations to make a really long story short