Hi guys. Sometimes plans don't work out as expected. And then frustration adds to the flu. And then you post things like this.

I just bought quite a bunch of games (more than I should have) and was already salivating thinking about the amazing weekend that was awaiting me... until I noticed I'm downloading at 20kb/s! (even less right now, around 13)

I've tried downloading directly, using the gog downloader, downloading games or goodies, and it's the same all the time. I made sure my connection was working fine through several means and utilities, and there's no problem there.

I don't remember downloading this slowly before, so I guess it has to do with the upcoming (or already here, depends on you) Christmas season. Either there's an humongous amount of people downloading at once or Gog capped the download speed preemptively (that's my bet).

Anyway... really, gog? Do you expect me to wait more than 24 hours to even try one of the games I purchased? (which are all those gigaquantic must-have RPGs) Ok, you meanies, but there goes my flu weekend. Damn it. Buy more bandwidth!

I was downloading at 1400kb/s earlier today and just got similar when I tried just then.

Hmm, thanks, that's good to know.
Then it's probably my ISP, which still puzzles me, as any other downloads work as expected.

EDIT: Unless I misunderstood your post completely. "Just got similar" to 1400kb/s not 20kb/s, right?

I too am getting this problem. The download speed is horrendously slow.

At this rate i wont be able to download anything, really.

Im getting about 700kbs. (Thats high for me)

whoa...im getting around 5kbs...

I have used GOG before it and i dont remember having this speed

I guess that there is a lot of demand on GOG servers right now, and somehow that screws my downloading speed. Im HOPING that later it will get faster, even if it is after the holiday season. I have no hurry.

Then it seems to be limited to the Iberian peninsula for some reason (that's Spain and Portugal).

Right now it's downloading at 5kb/s. Normally it should be somewhere between 100 and 200kb/s (I've downloaded Dune Wars for Civ IV at that rate from moddb). The downloader also stops from time to time, so I have to restart it manually, but that's been already reported in that thread up there.

Oh well.

EDIT: Heh, 5kb/s. That's too much coincidence to be just us two. Something somewhere isn't working as expected. Maybe not gog's fault, but there's something going on here.

I'm getting 6.3 - 7.2 MB/s with occasional peaks of about 9.5 MB/s

GOG uses the EdgeCast content distribution network. Content distribution networks work by dynamically redirecting you to the best available server, so normally you'll get good speeds no matter where you are in the world.

In this case it could be that the servers normally available in your area are down or overloaded and so you're either getting horrible speeds from them or being redirected to an inferior source. Unfortunately there is probably little GOG can do about this beyond complaining to EdgeCast and hoping they get around to fixing it.

That's a pretty damn good explanation, Arkose. Even if there's anything (or little) to do about it it's good to know why all this is happening. Thanks a lot.

EDIT: Oh, and thanks to the rest of you who posted their download speeds.

Yes, it goes a bit slower than typically. I started from 850 KB/s (my top speed) but now have only 400 KB/s

Edit: No I got ca. 100 KB/s. I'll postpone my downloads for tommorow. :-(

I think you might be wrong about this. GOG's servers are located in Canada, EdgeCast has no Canadian locations.

i had to download around 100 GB of games from gog this week.. and because the downloader crashes i did it with my browser. Upto 16 parallel downloads.. my 20Mb/s download was saturated.

Location: Switzerland

Try downloading any given file from GOG and you'll see that the source URL is edgecastcdn.net. The original source files can be anywhere; EdgeCast simply mirrors and distributes them globally. The lack of Canadian servers isn't a huge issue since download speeds from US servers are just fine.

Good news, for me at least.

The speeds seem to have gone back to normal. That's somewhere between 1500 and 2000kb/s (it seems I forgot a couple zeros before).

I'm in the process of creating physical backups of the games now. I was doing this before already (since the monk's "scare your customers" prank/whatever) but now I'm doing it even more diligently than before, seeing that the speed can change this drastically from one moment to another without any warning.

Anyway, thanks to all of you who cared enough to provide some insight in all this. It certainly wasn't thanks to GoG that I got the slight idea of what was going on. It was thanks to their user base. Because, really, it might be EdgeCast's problem but it's GoG the one who has to inform their users about it and make sure this won't happen again.