User blog comment:Heatedpete/Battlefield 3 Beta Experience - no. 1/@comment-1751442-20110929100252/@comment-5524047-20110929110833

I'm downloading the beta at the moment, (1.30 GBs, I assumed it would be larger for some reason) off the Xbox Live Marketplace.

I wouldn't be surprised if the servers were still buggered up though.