Because you can’t get a “nice” download speed, you are assuming every new player doesn’t, and gives up from trying EU? lol
AFAIK the speed at which you can download from the EU ftp server is capped at 1MB/s.
From here i can get up to ~420 kb/s (both during updates or downloading the full client) and it takes about 1 hour and a few minutes. (ADSL 4Mb/256kb)
IMHO the EU ftp server has a very nice speed.
ofc that on the first hours of a big update it slows down a bit.
It can (most probably) be a bottleneck somewhere between you and the EU ftp server. :dunno:
Do you have any other program using your bandwidth?
Btw:
ftp://ftp.entropiauniverse.com/Clients/Entropia_8.8.0.exe
Recently i downloaded the most recent full installer and burned it to a dvd-rw just to save myself the trouble of having to download it all again.
You know, once in a while we get someone complaining about that…
Oh… and check for spy/adware, you never know!
Also try to type “tracert ftp.entropiauniverse.com” on the console and see if any of the hops takes too long.