I was lucky enough today to get accepted into the public beta of Finaly Fantasy 14 Online but using the official download would mean a mind-numbing slow, 24 hour long download at 1-30Kb/s.
Luckily, I found a mirror of the required patch files and mirrored it myself: http://ffxiv.lifetimeblood.info/.
Feel free to spread the link: http://bit.ly/90NmTD
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