so after 4 grueling days of on and off downloading of the beta client (my brother shares my connection and couldn’t play xbox live if i had the dl going…) i finally got it all installed only to find out from the beta site that the beta has been put on hold to address network issues or something of that nature. so until that gets figured out i won’t be playing i suppose.

the initial download its self was pretty painful. a 3gb file should not take 4 days for me to download, even though i did have to stop it a few times. it usually takes me about an hour to download one gig but this took forever just to get that far! it was pretty disappointing and that’s not a good feeling when going into a beta test.

i hope that what ever they are fixing will cure the downloader problem because i really don’t want to have to deal with this sort of thing in the future!