Sometime late last night, the patch problem (extremely SLOW update download in upwards of several hours for what should have been only a couple of minutes) appears to have been resolved. Not sure if this will happen again with future updates.
I wonder if we'll get any explanation from the devs as to the cause of the 'hiccup'.
It already happened like three weeks ago on a previous update so we can guess it might happen again, since their first fix didn't prevent the update to fail again yesterday. But it was a problem on the european server only apparently (if the US server also had this 'hiccup' I imagine general discussion would have been flooded with complaints but it wasn't the case soooooo).