Wii USB Ethernet Dongle for Wii U - It WORKS!

[Viper1]

osed125 said:

Viper1 said:

twesterm said:

Viper1 said:

 

"Eurogamer tech expert Rich Leadbetter informs us that the update is 1GB, not 5GB as was originally reported."
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-11-19-large-wii-u-firmware-update-reportedly-bricking-consoles

"Wii U's first system software update weighs in at around 1GB"
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/df-hardware-nintendo-wii-u-review_7

And while Richard rounds the total to about 1 GB in the articles above, I can state that it's 882 MB specifically.

That's much better, thank you.  

No problem.

It just really makes you wonder how the 5 GB figure was first calculated and why it was taken as gospel by ever single media outlet (well, one of them didn't...*wink*)?

Only 1 GB, that's not that bad. So the reason why it took so long was because of saturated servers and not the size, good to know.

Correct.  Server throttling.  Massive volume compared to capacity.

Consider that other people later in the day said it was only taking 10-20 minutes to download.  That means it had to be smaller than 5 GB (because that would exceed their downlaod speed) and the server throttling was fixed.