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WiiU Update~ THE TRUTH!
- Nov 18, 2012 6:25 pm GMTAfter buying the *g Wii U (all that's available) I already learned how much gigs the download would take up. Bought SD card and will be an external hard drive as well. Anyone with an 8 Gig after download will only have about 3.5 gigs left, anyone with a 32, will only have about 25 left. With that said, After 1 hour and 30 min, the download is not even close to a quarter of the way done! This is with download speeds of 5.7 and Upload speeds at 3.4. I am really taken back at the hours needed for this. This may be 5 hours or longer!!!! My suggestion, direct connect internet, do not browse or interrupt internet, and DO NOT SHUT OF CONSOLE AND RESTART (known issue to cause longer downloading). At this point I wish I had an Ethernet chord as long as i need to get to the other side of the house faster speeds! THIS IS TIME CONSUMING!!! SO BE READY!!!!!!!
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- Nov 18, 2012 6:40 pm GMT
Nintendo Network ID: bonesawisready Currently Playing:Rayman Legends Challenges App, Sleeping Dogs, Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario World
[QUOTE="Margarita28"]After buying the *g Wii U (all that's available) I already learned how much gigs the download would take up. Bought SD card and will be an external hard drive as well. Anyone with an 8 Gig after download will only have about 3.5 gigs left, anyone with a 32, will only have about 25 left. With that said, After 1 hour and 30 min, the download is not even close to a quarter of the way done! This is with download speeds of 5.7 and Upload speeds at 3.4. I am really taken back at the hours needed for this. This may be 5 hours or longer!!!! My suggestion, direct connect internet, do not browse or interrupt internet, and DO NOT SHUT OF CONSOLE AND RESTART (known issue to cause longer downloading). At this point I wish I had an Ethernet chord as long as i need to get to the other side of the house faster speeds! THIS IS TIME CONSUMING!!! SO BE READY!!!!!!! [/QUOTE] It's partly that the network isn't very fast, but also your connection too. Mine updated in about 60-70 minutes. Unnecessarily long, but not 5 hours long- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 18, 2012 6:49 pm GMT
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"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves thems more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
Augustine of Hippo in The City of GodI was suprised by how long it took as well but mine only took about an hour and a half, not five hours. I turned on my 3DS and played Rhythm Thief & The Emperor's Treasure while I was waiting.
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- Nov 18, 2012 6:51 pm GMTI let it run about 5 hours. Got 1/2 way and tired of waiting to play so I stopped it, played Nintendo Land for an hour then started it back up and it started over again
3ds friend code: 2878 9592 6307
Nintendo Network ID: AutoPilot
PSN: Autopilot_On
XBL: AutopilotOn
I let it run about 5 hours. Got 1/2 way and tired of waiting to play so I stopped it, played Nintendo Land for an hour then started it back up and it started over again :(- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 18, 2012 7:02 pm GMT
hmmmm i wonder if it could possibly be because 1000s of other people are trying to update their Wii U at the same time..........no that doesnt make any sense
hmmmm i wonder if it could possibly be because 1000s of other people are trying to update their Wii U at the same time..........no that doesnt make any sense:roll:
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- Nov 18, 2012 7:19 pm GMTJuanGrande386 wrote:
hmmmm i wonder if it could possibly be because 1000s of other people are trying to update their Wii U at the same time..........no that doesnt make any sense
Exactly. This is ONLY day 1.
[QUOTE="JuanGrande386"]
hmmmm i wonder if it could possibly be because 1000s of other people are trying to update their Wii U at the same time..........no that doesnt make any sense:roll:
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Exactly. This is ONLY day 1.
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- Nov 18, 2012 9:38 pm GMT
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My update seemed to take about 20-30 minutes. It was pretty long, but not terrible bad. Then again, I have very, very fast speeds.
It was a tease though, people at the house waiting had pizza.
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- Nov 18, 2012 9:44 pm GMT
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Mine was rather slow. I did a batch of dishes and cleaned my bathroom while I waited.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 18, 2012 9:58 pm GMT
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6).
I wish I knew exactly how long it took for my Wii U to fully update (I did not use a stopwatch).
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- Nov 18, 2012 10:37 pm GMT
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Mine took a long time, the servers are clogged with everyone trying to update all at once.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 18, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
It was a long update, then I popped around the menu, and everything was a bit slow.
Finally, after creating a Mii, I popped in NintendoLand...and I got another update.
I wanted to go to the shop, but I was tired and navigating around the machine should be faster.
2009-2010 SW King,The LAST SW HERO, Most Respected User, & 3x Hippy Manticore Ancient Award winning SolidTy:
I am GOTY, Gamespotter of the Year!
It was a long update, then I popped around the menu, and everything was a bit slow.
Finally, after creating a Mii, I popped in NintendoLand...and I got another update.
I wanted to go to the shop, but I was tired and navigating around the machine should be faster. :(
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- Nov 18, 2012 10:56 pm GMT
Took about 40 minutes.
Gotta say though, when I noticed it was taking an unusually long time to get started I checked Google and the horror stories scared me a bit. Luckily, no power/internet outages. They are rare in my area anyway so it would have really been a terrible freak accident had one occurred and bricked my system.
Hopefully, updates will be a bit faster in the future.
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- Nov 18, 2012 11:41 pm GMTPikachu69er wrote:So what, i love it! any pokemon game that is released i will buy it so the more the better
A fine example of fanboyism -_-[QUOTE="Margarita28"]After buying the *g Wii U (all that's available) I already learned how much gigs the download would take up. Bought SD card and will be an external hard drive as well. Anyone with an 8 Gig after download will only have about 3.5 gigs left, anyone with a 32, will only have about 25 left. With that said, After 1 hour and 30 min, the download is not even close to a quarter of the way done! This is with download speeds of 5.7 and Upload speeds at 3.4. I am really taken back at the hours needed for this. This may be 5 hours or longer!!!! My suggestion, direct connect internet, do not browse or interrupt internet, and DO NOT SHUT OF CONSOLE AND RESTART (known issue to cause longer downloading). At this point I wish I had an Ethernet chord as long as i need to get to the other side of the house faster speeds! THIS IS TIME CONSUMING!!! SO BE READY!!!!!!! [/QUOTE] You bought an 8g wii u because it was the only one available? I would just have waited for the 32gigs to restock :/- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 19, 2012 12:03 am GMT
[QUOTE="SolidTy"]My update seemed to take about 20-30 minutes. It was pretty long, but not terrible bad. Then again, I have very, very fast speeds.
It was a tease though, people at the house waiting had pizza.
[/QUOTE] this- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 19, 2012 12:17 am GMT
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Life's too short! Game on!!!
I'm not a fanboy, i'm a gamer
PSN: Sun_Wukong
Steam: Denspion
currently playing: God of War Acension
The update only took so long for me because I kept getting connection to server errors, then i'd have to back out of it and restart the update, luckily though it started where it left off.
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- Nov 19, 2012 12:36 am GMT
I am not a fanboy, but I am a True Gamer, I am a fan of Ayumi Hamasaki and most Asian music
[QUOTE="Margarita28"]After buying the *g Wii U (all that's available) I already learned how much gigs the download would take up. Bought SD card and will be an external hard drive as well. Anyone with an 8 Gig after download will only have about 3.5 gigs left, anyone with a 32, will only have about 25 left. With that said, After 1 hour and 30 min, the download is not even close to a quarter of the way done! This is with download speeds of 5.7 and Upload speeds at 3.4. I am really taken back at the hours needed for this. This may be 5 hours or longer!!!! My suggestion, direct connect internet, do not browse or interrupt internet, and DO NOT SHUT OF CONSOLE AND RESTART (known issue to cause longer downloading). At this point I wish I had an Ethernet chord as long as i need to get to the other side of the house faster speeds! THIS IS TIME CONSUMING!!! SO BE READY!!!!!!! [/QUOTE]
You do realies that SD card is only for used for Wii in Wii mode right?.. You have to buy a external HDD for storering VC, DLC and Digital Retail games.
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- Nov 19, 2012 4:54 am GMT
3ds friend code: 2878 9592 6307
Nintendo Network ID: AutoPilot
PSN: Autopilot_On
XBL: AutopilotOn
The update downloaded over night for me. It cant be much more than 1gig. My download connection says I am only used slightly over 1 with my internet connected all night.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 19, 2012 5:48 am GMTSo I was updating and kept getting error codes so I said eff it and my wife and I played NSMBU for a while and it downloaded the update in the background. When we left the game to mess around with the menus it was all downloaded and ready to install. Still took too long but atleast you can play a Wii U game while its downloading things.
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- Nov 19, 2012 5:54 am GMT
Currently playing New SMB U, Black Ops II and ZombiU
1 gb is crazy though, they must have started making consoles before they actually finished the software for them.
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- Nov 19, 2012 6:05 am GMT
3ds friend code: 2878 9592 6307
Nintendo Network ID: AutoPilot
PSN: Autopilot_On
XBL: AutopilotOn
[QUOTE="zyphyr2k12"]1 gb is crazy though, they must have started making consoles before they actually finished the software for them.
[/QUOTE] Well I think they said they did it with a software update like this so people who got theirs early to review games wouldn't be able to see any of the system feature software at first..- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
