plus you have to figure the servers will be running slow the first day or so. I'm on fios, supposed to get 50/50 mbs, but probably more like 37 up and 47 down. at any rate, will probably be a couple 3 hours. but I'm old enough (42) to remember the days of dial up when downloading a 45mb demo was a 2 day affair, lol. a 7 KBS rate was awesome for me back in the late '90's

About 4 hours

http://www.download-time.com/

Hope there's ample preloading time.

So somewhere around eight and a half hours for me. I do hope Steam lets us pre-download, though I guess I'll be tired at midnight anyhow so starting the download at midnight and having it ready to play by morning wouldn't be that horrible ... if the system isn't so overloaded that it takes all day at any rate.

Probably a good solid 4 hours for me.

This thread is pointless. I know we're posting silly stuff while we wait for the game to come out but that thread reached a new low in pointlessness.

Is there a point to pointing out how pointless something is?

No, threads like this are useful, if only to make the "Dude, digital everything! Why do they even sell discs anymore?" folks aware that not everyone out there has uber connections.

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Best my Steam does is about 2MB/s. Which is why I'll be buying a disc.

I think my broadband is something like $30-40/mo. Yay, crappy US broadband "competition"

Around 40 minutes. Currently I'm not planning on buying the game on release day though (waiting for user reviews), so makes little difference to me.

Those of you on a slow line, better pray there will be preloading .

Around 8 hours. Hopefully it can be pre downloaded. If not it'll start downloading it at midnight.

IF, and I mean IF, they allow you to pre download then I will order a digital copy and get started because it might take a few days for me to get it otherwise. I know when I bought a physical copy of Forza 5, it still took a few days to get the rest of the game downloaded even though I was able to play within about an hour or so after loading.

The new way of doing games with most of it being downloaded even though you have a disc really pisses me off. I absolutely hate it and dread what may happen if my Xbox One ever dies, like 3 of my 360s did. With the 360 at least I could just swap the hard drive over and keep on playing, until they changed the console and made it so you couldn't swap hard drives anymore. It was harder to get my profile back from Microsoft then it was to get my lost password back from my bank.

But I digress...

A little over an hour

Around 55 mins

(hmmm, nice tool: http://download.stormloader.com/)

If I was downloading, but there's a Pip-Boy with my name on it, so much less .

And yes, we really are scraping the barrel for discussion topics now aren't we...

I have 1GBs fiber optic but it's usually more like 750MBs so maybe a half-hour to an hour? Assuming I don't just buy the physical game.

My internet has speeds of ~30 Mbps but I've never actually seen Steam download anything faster than ~5 Mbps. I have no idea why that is.

Luckily (?) since I've ordered a physical copy it won't apply on release day, at least. Probably in the future if I lose my disks.

Not gong to matter as Cox will be capping my 50/10 connection as always, plus Steam will have there own cap as well. I never get more then 3-4 down whether I'm at the office or home.

Download speeds are affected by latency. Make sure your download region in steam settings is set to somewhere close to you.

28 GB after install - I would assume. Divide that by the compression ratio to get the actual download size.

Download speed is also limited by your hardware throughput. Speed and throughput are two different things. You can have a gigabit speed device but the chips in it may only be able to sustain a 5 megabit flow. I've seen this many times where someone will have a 100 meg internet connection with a crappy firewall/router in front of it and wonder why the connection svcks.

Internet speed is usually showed as a Megabit (Mb) number, while download speed counts as Megabyte (MB). 1 byte = 8 bits. By that your internet speed at 30 Mbps gives a max download speed of 3,75 MB/s. If you actually have a download speed of up to 5 MB/s you should really be satisfied. Or your internet speed is more like 40 Mbps.

My ISP plan is 25mbps. I used both these sites other users posted (http://download.stormloader.com/) & (http://www.download-time.com/). It reads 2.5 & 2:40 hours. Yesterday on the Xbox One, when I was downloading the 2.2 update for World of Tanks. 25 GBs - took me 3.5 to 4 hours to download. I checked Centurylinks speedtest today.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 22.084 Mbps (2760.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1.924 Mbps (240.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 18 ms

Is it normal not to get the full 25mbps?

Yes, as internet plans only assure you UP TO that speed, not that you will get that speed all the time.

Also, download speeds are limited by other factors such as any limit on the servers you are downloading from.

i think with my conection, and steam have a great service (never have problem) around 1h

I appreciate you help clearing that up.

Not too long i hope, but depends on server and traffic at the time.

40Mbps fibre download speed.

The tools says 38 minutes with 100 Mbps... assuming the server doesn't have problems.

Barely two year ago, the best connection available on this [censored] city I live was a 3 Mbps connection and it would have take ages to download that, that was quite a change.