The DL speeds leave much to be desired. For a while there, I was stuck at 12.2 Kbps. That's unacceptable. It did eventually increase, but only after I paused and continued the DL multiple times. It's now hovering between 3.2 and 3.4 Mbps, which is also alarmingly slow. Yes, there are numerous variables involved in DL speeds, but I find the most significant barrier to be metering connections, which is certainly what is happening here. It means I will have to spend hours DL the game Bannerlord over a period of a couple of days. The game is on sale on Steam for exactly the same price; my Steam DL speed is 14Mbps - metered, but better than here. Time is money, so perhaps I should consider this a hidden cost? Maybe I should even bill for my time?

While I appreciate the attempt to keep overhead costs down, there is functionality to be considered. Once again, I urge you to increase the DL speeds for VLD material in North America

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/improve_download_speeds_for_offline_installers

You do realize that GOG can do little about the path the data takes to you? Speeds are negotiated through and through per protocol via different factors. Some networks/ISPs are even throttling the speed over their network. And it can get throttled pretty fast also if you or anyone else share the bandwidth.

While some can pay not to get throttled (in those regions it is allowed), it's still not GOG's fault or even responsibility.

I've always downloaded around max (10-11MB, bytes not bits) at what I have on my line, unless, something else "steals" bandwidth (including at GOG especially around big sales where there's high load, through the different networks, and finally LAN to the different devices).

I'm not a tech specialist when it comes to internet infrastructure but I don't think GOG is at blame this time. I usually download from my library with speed between 35-45 MB/s with occasional hiccups at random when the speed is not constant.

I download from GOG almost daily and I regularly get download speeds of 300 Mbps (which is my internet connection speed). I'm in North Carolina.

And I'm in Virginia and Steam is ALWAYS way, way faster than gog. And the difference has worsened over the years, not improved. Yeah, there is something different about gog with me too. And before anyone asks, I "test" both often at the same time. I can't even recall a sample where gog was ever equal with Steam. Never better. Always slower.

But of course there will twenty posts after this saying it's not gog blah blah blah. But it won't change the fact that OP, you're right. There is a noticeable, and permanent, difference between the two. And it's significant. Speeds are quite different, best I ever get here at gog is 8 or 9 MBps while at Steam the worst I usually get is 15MBps, usually between 20 and 30. I don't recall ever being above 10 here.

EDIT: I should clarify that the speeds I quote here are different from what I used to get, much slower on both, but that's because my location from the wi-fi router changed when I became bed bound. I did used to see 17-20 here at gog then. But, at that point I also used to see 30-50 on Steam. In other words, the speeds were overall better then and slower now, but that's not on either Steam or gog. That's on my location from the router. But, no matter the location, Steam has ALWAYS, from the time I've been on both, ALWAYS faster, and significantly so, than gog. Always.

for me its both steam and gog (galaxy) that seem less stable then epic,ubi,ea and battlenet. I do use steam most often followed by galaxy. the interference might also be partly due to external factors.
I'm not entirely sure. I do know that i experience kb/s rates at least twice a year! and when i look outside it is usually clouded. I also tend to break off any dl's in progress during those rates.

This behaviour was way worse in the past. And was also one of the main reasons for me adding an extra TB's HDD to the setup. Dumping large games on that drive until they'd become relevant again. Overall, i have nothing to complain. It seems the connection improved a lot, especially since last year.

I am of course situated in Europe :p

No, but it does have control over their CDN provider & service package choices.

It worked in Cyberpunk a long time back for myself and I stretched out into the game hours beyond the entirety of my companions. On the off chance that you are wanting to send off it an entire day after the fact or something then I'd overlook this. Cheers folks!

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Depends. We know nothing about the finer details in the contract(s) with Lumen, among others, and it's mainly the CDNs themselves who choose where the data actually lies.

Instead of fastly they should rename to slowly.

Quicksilver67,

If you get much higher speeds from Steam then the problem can't be with your Internet connection and other posters' experiences here seem to indicate there's not a problem with GOG's connection, so the cause must be between the two. Could you post details of your Internet Service Provider? It could be that their peering arrangements (or lack of them) are causing this issue - which could be confirmed (or refuted) by others here sharing your ISP.

Also if GOG are to have any chance of resolving this (which isn't likely to happen unless you raise a support ticket) then they will need to know your ISP also.

In the meantime, using a download manager that can support multiple connections to speed up downloads may be a worthwhile workaround - this TechRadar comparison should offer something to get you started.

Welcome to GOG! Gog sells games. So, let's play a game.

Let's play a game of "Fuck Off."

You go first.

(I guess the bots are moving into existing threads more and more as opposed to starting new threads. Much harder to find spam in random posts in random threads than to see an obvious spam thread that's been started and shows up on the main forum page.)

But seriously sudkogt, Fuck the fuck off.