yoddle: Not sure if anyone is experiencing the same thing but it's been the case for me for pretty much this entire year: GOG games are downloading at a snail's pace at 1MB/s and lower. At times, if I am lucky, the download speed goes up to 5MB/s. I've tried downloading a few 1GB games and it's taken hours (or pretty much an entire, 24 hr day) to complete downloading. This happens for both the GOG Galaxy client, as well as downloading from the website.

I am on a 1GBps connection, tested to upload and download speeds of at least 200MB/s so my connection's not an issue. There aren't any other solutions I can find online as to how to remedy this, and it seems like the issue is on GOG's side. Just wondering if anyone is also experiencing this problem and if there is a way for users to actually raise this to the GOG team because I've bought a ton of games, with no way to download them within a reasonable amount of time.

Adding a note here that I'm glad I didn't purchase a game liky Cyberpunk from GOG, and opted for Steam to make that purchase instead, otherwise I would have been stuck with a 10-day download or something.

Chevy67: I am downloading a 50 gb game from GOG right getting about 50 to 150kb download speed. It has taken over 24 hours and I am only half downloaded. This is ridiculous, GOG must be getting ready to go under. Steam can be slow too, but not this slow.Chevy67:

Timboli: I get around it using Free Download Manager 5, as it is a multi thread download program, and I have to use many of them. It can be tricky to get working though, requiring a browser addon for most folks, unless you go the command-line route with a cookie file etc.

Braggadar: You can of course grab links somewhat "manually", and download that way without needing a browser addon nor cmd/cookie route.
Takes patience though.

As for speed it does improve it, but nowhere near the maximum other sites provide.

Timboli: P.S. Unless you are talking about grabbing the download link from download properties with your browser downloader. That means starting the download with your browser, getting the link, then stopping the browser downloader, then pasting that link in a downloading program. A fair amount of fiddly effort, especially with a game that has lots of files.

Braggadar: Precisely this. And it's fiddly, but you get used to it.

It's something I put up with because I loathe installing extra stuff on my system.

Timboli: P.S. You've just got me thinking about a Simple GOG Downloader program, which would essentially be a small floating dropbox you could drag & drop a browser link to or paste to, that would retrieve the MD5, file size, file name and then download the file, then check it against the MD5 etc. It could even support dropping a text file list of links, which it would proceed to download one after the other. It would use both curl.exe and aria2.exe and require a cookie file. A few folk here might like such a simple approach.