My Experience
 

I just ran it yesterday for the first time since I just purchased HL. It took just over 15 hours total time which is mind boggling to me. I assume this is a Wizards being difficult issue, but given that I could have downloaded every main stream movie from 2011 in high definition in the same amount of time...my god.

Obviously I'm joking, but I do have a 50Mb/s connection so I wasn't expecting it to take anywhere near that long. That being said it did seem to work fine and I had no issues once the process was finished, creating a character.

The product seems pretty solid and I like the features, but if there is anyway to speed up this process it would certainly be a big advantage.

-Shon