guild wars client download

so i decided to reinstall guild wars because 5000ms ping isn't very fun. i went on guildwars.com and downloaded the client installer. 5 hours later the bar seems to be stuck here:



it would be nice if i could play guild wars again. any thoughts?

A high latency isn't usually caused by an install problem.. Those things are mainly caused by your connection to the appropriate servers. I don't think downloading the whole client will fix your problem. Try investigating why you are having such a poor connection rather than starting again.

So i left it downloading overnight and 8 hours later i come back and Guild wars is still downloading stuff at 3-5 kb/sec. (slow)
I don't think it's my connection. I'm connected to my college internet on ethernet and can download a 300+mb file in a couple minutes. Guild wars has always worked fine for me before. Nothing about my computer or my connection has changed.

So Nanood is right. a clean reinstall should be looked at only after you have exhausted your other resources: for example, a badly fragged dat file, anti-virus suddenly deciding GW is a bad program (has happened to me once), things like that.