I went to the portal website and signed in, so it sent me an email with a key and a link to sign in and use the key, but all im getting is this:

scratch that, just googled for  "Square Enix Account Management"and found a link that works

Good luck getting the update, played a bit earlier (really liking it so far!) but after lunch its been updating a 10kb file for the past 2 hours

Ya, patching is slow. Though the music in the background totally makes up for it.

stuck at 47.3% here too, all the seeders are playing the game!

yup i'm stuck at 47.3%

here you go guys: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7747X1TU 
 
got them from here:  http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/12719-open-beta-megauploadutorrent-links-install-instructions/page__st__700 work fine and I'm playing now :D 
 
Edit: seems like server maintenance now ¬_¬

Edit: seems like server maintenance now ¬_¬ "

i only just now got the whole thing downloaded but you still can't get a beta key... which i don't know why they even have the need for beta keys in an open beta anyways. why couldn't this be handled by fileplanet or something like that?