Lol....good one.

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As to the OP post/title: I think this video says it all

Do you have a factual source for that?

I don't download my games using my browser. At the very least I would use a downloader like Free Download Manager 5 with the browser links. These days I use gogcli.exe and failing that gogrepo.py.

I have given Galaxy as many chances as it is going to get, and won't try it again unless GOG has published they have removed half the bloat and it runs much better now and has a Lite variant.

If GOG try to force me into using Galaxy, I will just stop buying.
At this point, with my huge collection of games, both here at GOG and elsewhere, I am really doing them a favor, by continuing to buy games here, more than they are me.

I'm not against Galaxy, other than for my own personal use.

I struggle to see the advantage of that. And People & Stores have agendas, and so trust on the ground can be very thin.

Just because someone in Sydney for instance, hasn't seemingly been suffering a slowdown, doesn't really help when making a judgment based on where I live, which is not Sydney. Speeds vary all over the country, and NZ has a different network altogether. And many have 100 Megabit connections or better. If the slowdown is based on a percentage, then you are comparing apples with oranges.

GOG recently made a thread where they released a set of (info lite) infographics recently.....one of which showed percentages of sales per world area.

Yay, the guy who told me they're using a downrating script against me and others. But you know what? I don't like rep, anyway, and you said you don't want to see my posts anymore, but i think it would save some peoples' time from continuing this charade by responding to some things here... Or just this whole thing. And how easy is this to do?

Wow, you see, for users who don't have a clue how these tools work: they're meant to archive your games in the background. In other words, he's not likely sitting there waiting to play a game he just purchased. No, it's going to some sort of archive folder or drive when he downloads them. If he was anxious to play these games, he'd likely be using the browser, since, odds are, his archive drive is on another computer, which means after it's done downloading, he'd have to wait for it to get off his archive to the one he'd actually play on. He's already adding wait time by not downloading the game twice: once through browser and the other through gogcli/gogrepo. He doesn't really care about the download speeds, but is just looking for something to complain about.

I'm sure, though, someone's actually upset about these speeds, but that's a whole other topic for a whole other time. He's not going to boycott games as a result of their size unless he's running out of HDD space.

So are you now getting under 2 megaBITS/sec or 2 megaBYTES/sec? The first message indicated you are getting under 2 megaBITS/sec, which indeed is quite slow.

I have a 400Mbit/s cable modem at home, but I guess I don't mind if I get about 2 Mbytes/sec download speeds from one service (like gog.com), even if it would be nice if everything came at full speed.

I am currently downloading one of the 4GB .bin files of Control with Chromium browser in Linux, and getting around 4.7 megabytes/sec download speed, which is ok to me. Especially since this is on a laptop over the older 2.4GHz wifi in the room which is the farthest away from my wifi router, so I am pretty sure it is actually the wifi which is throttling me at the moment, and I would get faster speed if I was connected to the router with a LAN cable.

Does that include also big downloads from other web sites, with the same web browser? For instance HumbleBundle.com? Just to make sure that it is an apples to apples comparison...

Yeah it is possible GOG has pretty poor download server coverage for e.g. Australia and some other parts of the world.

I haven't tested recently, but at least some time ago I was getting very fast download speeds with a web browser e.g. at my work (several hundreds of megabits/sec, at least). So at least back then it didn't seem web browser downloads were throttled.

I checked how it looks currently on my end. Right now I'm getting around 40 MB/s (that's 320 Mbit/s) when downloading Control offline installer. And it's pretty common for me to get this kind of speed. Sometimes it's lower in the rush hours and the download speed may vary depending on the title, but it hasn't fallen down to a really low values for a long time. I'm fully aware however that people from other regions have problems. This topic comes back to the forums from time to time. The most important variables are current traffic and region of download.

It would be very slow indeed if it was Megabits.
Don't know why some think that Mb/s is Megabits. Generally if you are talking about Megabits, you use the word Megabits or Mbit/s as you have done, so as not to confuse the two.

Clearly many GOG customers get download speeds far in access of what my connection is capable of. So I think it fair to assume I should at least get between 4 and 5 Mb/s, especially as that has been my download speed with GOG for a few years, until a month or so ago.

Which is exactly how I am connected, so no Wifi involved.

I am NOT using a browser with GOG, but yes I get fast speeds with my browser with other sites.

Well it certainly seems that way, unless they are penalizing non Galaxy users.

Yep, it seems to be a constant throttling though for the last month or so, for me ... with GOG.

In that time I have tried all the tricks I know, none browser based, because I don't use my browser for GOG. That includes turning off my Router for a few minutes, then restarting it ... which has often worked in the past with download slowness. But generally if download speeds are slow because of my ISP, I notice anyway, because even browsing is slow.

As GamezRanker posted, Mb are Megabits and MB are MegaBytes. The size of the letter is important here. I usually use Mbit for Megabits to minimize the confusion.

Well, you could always try to contact support, because your speeds are way below expectations. But again, you're not the only one with this kind of problem. In the past I also had problems with download speeds falling down even to 1-2 MB/s with the same Internet bandwidth. I even posted a topic that covered this issue: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/whats_your_download_speed_on_gog/page1. Now it doesn't happen, so I presume GOG did upgrade its servers in the EU region. Not sure if the company has servers in Australia at all. It's possible that you're downloading from some other region.

My guess is that there are no servers in that country, and the slowness is possibly partly due to the bandwidth limitations of the cabling connecting Australia with the rest of the world.

Because words (and capitalization, in this case) have meanings. MB/s (or MBps) is standard for MegaBytes per second where as Mb/s (or Mbps) is Megabits or Megabauds per second. People get confused because you used the wrong terminology.

It's the same kind of terminology that ISPs use to confuse customers and why they measure everything in Mbps (because the numbers are bigger) knowing that everything actually online is measured in MBps. They do this to trick people into thinking they will get a FAR faster connection than they do.

Page 72. I presumed it was browser, but yes whatever method you usually use to download. Relevant. Anyway, it's to install to test one download speed in comparison to whatever you're using right now to see if there is a discrepancy. It's also very easy to do yourself instead of sitting around wondering if Galaxy users are getting preferential treatment. Yes, that's why you have to cross-check the conflict-of-interest data they give you with another independent source. If GOG says their servers are fine, but you and four other Aussies are getting 1 MB/s on a 5-10 MB/s ethernet connection, then something doesn't add up. Yes, but it helps with process of elimination of the source of the problem roughly. If some Aussie was getting 4 MB/s and you were getting 1 MB/s on the same ISP plan, then the source of problem is localized to you and your pathway compared to your mate. You know your variables (e.g., throttling speeds, torrenting in the background, etc.), just keep them constant.

This is hilarious, thanks for sharing.

It's even more funny when you imagine them saying some of the stuff in the OP post(also i'm glad ya enjoyed it).

If you mean e.g. gogrepo, it would help to test it also e.g. with a browser (just to see it is not a gogrepo or python issue), as I recall some earlier having some speed issues with gogrepo, possibly related to their python configuration or something.

If they were throttling non-Galaxy users, I presume non-Galaxy GOG users all over the world would see the problem.

It would also help if you could test it somewhere else besides just your home connection (different ISP hopefully), to see whether it is an issue with your ISP.

That is why I sometimes test it at my work (because the internet is and should be super-speedy there), or alternatively with my mobile phone internet connection, instead of the cable modem (different ISP).

Anyway, I consider it a possibility that GOG servers serving your area in Australia may have just become worse lately. It is possible, GOG had some other slowdowns issues lately as well, there were a couple of threads of that IIRC.