Some lucky guy got his CE early and mentioned the patches that we can torrent (probably much faster than SE's patcher software):
Just downloaded mine and confirm that it worked fine - my patches are sitting my download folder right now just waiting for my FFXIV to be installed so I can "copy pasta" them into the file.
Heres the torrents for the patches.
2d2a390f
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1RBJ65J2
48eca647
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N9Q1WP9I
They go in C:\Users\name\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv
then the number up there then patch. Once the game is installed from the disc put the .patch file in the patch folder in that directory and it'll install them from there.
Just downloaded mine and confirm that it worked fine - my patches are sitting my download folder right now just waiting for my FFXIV to be installed so I can "copy pasta" them into the file.