Um, well, if your trying to play BF online with 56k, good luck... You will lag REALLY bad if you can even find a server that will let you in cuase of your ping... But the patch, there really isent much you can do, enless you have a freind or something, like chog said, with broadband connection, and just dload it there. But honestly, i dont think you could play BF online with 56k. Only thing you could do, is if you have 2 comps, play lan against a freind or something, or play the incredibly stupid bots. Good luck though!