When I download the direct files, it simply stalls or has a speed of 9/kbs. Tried galaxy and it constantly fails then gets stuck at updating. What do I do? It's frustrating when you want to support something and they give you reasons to not.

An user from Australia also complained the same thing during last big promo.
I guess GOG's CDN have poor performance for some area or ISP of Australia.

Australia's Internet backbone was damaged last month. Not sure what the status of repairs are:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/aussie-web-users-warned-to-expect-slow-speeds-for-at-least-six-weeks-after-undersea-cables-damaged/news-story/5ca81511fe7c51f8ee1cb5cfbac85e51

Don't know if it's related. Haven't heard anything from the couple of moms we have down under about their connections so I guess they were surviving.