Origin

+1 7 gigs should not take 5 hours, or even 3 days.

My download speed is 178kb/s. And thats maximum speed. Complaining won't do much there.
The real problem is that a shitload of people just do the same download and EA servers are melting. As if this wouldn't happen with Steam all the time...

This speed is all I've known since my family upgraded from dialup, so I guess it doesn't bother me too much cause I'm used to it. :I

Something about the edge of their service range or some other bull.

Yeah, because going to your ISP and saying "Origin isn't maxing out my connection" is going to get people anywhere.

I've been downloading from them and the speed hasn't been optimal, but I guessed that may be due to their servers being stressed at the moment. Though once Battlefield 3 got to 80-something percent, it gave me an error and told me to wait a few minutes before trying again, at which point it started from 0%. It did this three times, at varying levels of completion.

This is of course also overlooking that an error in the Origin installer wiped 300gb of non-origin files, due to it deciding that emptying it's parent directory was a good idea. Still grumbling about that one. That, and the retroactive invasive EULA it tries to apply over older games, and you have a recipe for disaster. Truth be told, I only folded and ended up using it due to accidentally clicking through a EULA after some patch notes in Darkspore, which turned out to be a copy of the Origin EULA, so my abstaining ended up being for nothing. :V

Oh well.

lol

+1 - The only reason they can claim it's not spyware is because, sadly, we agreed to it. But yeah you're right, Origin is quite an intrusive piece of software. Same deal however could be said about Facebook, XBox One, Smart Phones, NSA, PRISM, etc... As for Origin, it scans your entire hard drives content, IP Address, personal details and the hardware you use, etc, and reports back to the mothership.

Consent to Collection and Use of Data.

"You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online services. EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you. IF YOU DO NOT WANT EA TO COLLECT, USE, STORE, TRANSMIT OR DISPLAY THE DATA DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE APPLICATION. This and all other data provided to EA and/or collected by EA in connection with your installation and use of this Application is collected, used, stored and transmitted in accordance with EA’s Privacy Policy located at www.ea.com. To the extent that anything in this section conflicts with the terms of EA’s Privacy Policy, the terms of the Privacy Policy shall control."

If you live in Europe or in USA (California ONLY) you don't have to worry about it.
You can install it, they are not doing that anymore (PLUS sharing data with "selected" partners).

i think steam also do that but not that much.

i found some interesting discussion about this clicky

The beginning.

"Those who follow the path of righteousness shall be raised up high''-star gate

Thanks for this, based off the that thread I'm having the exact same issue as some others there. Hopefully this works. :)

EDIT:Alas - it has not worked. Jumped back down to 60% from 70%. I guess I'll try this again when EA gets their shit together...

That fix worked for me, I was trying to download Battlefield 3 and it kept on pausing the download. After applying that fix the download problems were over.