14 day trial - what to downloadFollow

Hi guys, looking for some advice here on how to get this trial going...

What files do I need to download to play?

I downloaded the trial from this location:
http://www.darkageofcamelot.com/downloads/index.php?id=mmo

Once completed I launched, and the patcher started up with around about 96MB worth of update to do. (It states at the bottom left of the patcher '1.62' but I'm unsure if that refers to the patcher version or the game version.)

However, the patcher is hella slow on several fronts. It tends to freeze a lot (I can do whatever else I want on the PC at this time, it's just the patcher), but when it does work the fastest download I can get is about 2Kb/s. Not sure if that's just me or the patch server, but I had a similar problem trying to patch Shadowbane, and eventually gave up after 3 days had only gotten me to 50%.

Anyway, that's beside the point. You are welcome to make suggestions regarding the patcher etc.., but I imagine it's my own fault somewhere by having too many extra programs messing things up or another equally noob faliure.

What I'd really like to know is if I can d/l the necessary patches directly.
I found this page,

http://www.darkageofcamelot.com/patches/

Which looked promising. On reading it I thought it was saying the original file I downloaded should be enough. But because I was having issues I downloaded the next thing on the list at a juicy 1.25GB which was called isles_catacombs_engine_update.exe in about 3 hours at 120Kb/s. I plonked this into my DAOC 'Isles' folder as instructed, but it hasn't made any difference to the patcher.

So if anyone can guide me on which patches I might need to play the basic game, where I could get them, and in what order they need to be applied, ..I'd be so grateful.

Just in case anyone asks, I've included my stats below:
1.9GHz
1Gb RAM
3.5MB/s ADSL
Raedon 9800SE

Also FYI, troubleshooting steps regarding patcher:
* Closed all other software except patcher
* Disabled/closed Virus Protection (Avast)
* Disabled/closed Firewall (Sygate)
* Disabled proxy (Proximitron)
(Default browser is Firefox if that counts for anything)

If anyone has any guidance I'd be truely grateful. DAOC sounds pretty cool by all accounts so i'd love to experience it first hand.

Many thanks

Wolf

Edit - Upgraded 1.25MB to a more suitably shocking 1.25GB ;)

Edited, Sep 10th 2006 at 11:41am EDT by Wolfwarg

Okay, thx Thuri :)

Was hoping to find direct downloads of the progressive patchs(or even torrents somewhere) to avoid the d/l dribble and patcher crashes. I imagine there's probably some issues around authenticity with that though so I guess I see why we can't.

Thanks again for your reply