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Posted December 10, 2008
Lately i noticed a heavy drop in the download speed. A few weeks ago, the only limit was my own bandwidth (16k down), but now, everything CRAWLS at max. 200 kb/s, mostly barely reaching 100 kb/s.
Is this a problem with my provider or do you experience this too?
Post edited December 10, 2008 by Harzzach
Posted December 10, 2008
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Harzzach: Lately i noticed a heavy drop in the download speed. A few weeks ago, the only limit was my own bandwidth (16k down), but now, everything CRAWLS at max. 200 kb/s, mostly barely reaching 100 kb/s.
Is this a problem with my provider or do you experience this too?

i get about 200ishk/s, which is about normal for me, where the hell do you get 16k?
Posted December 10, 2008
i get about 200ishk/s, which is about normal for me, where the hell do you get 16k?

From my provider :) and a few weeks ago, i downloaded everything from GOG at maximum speed, between 1mb/s to 1.5 mb/s. But now ... back to the days of introducing highspeed internet with 100 kb/s from the year 2000.
Post edited December 10, 2008 by Harzzach
Posted December 11, 2008
I have the same problem but it's because my ISP sucks and still hasn't fixed my speed.
Posted December 11, 2008
I just downloaded Port Royale 2 at an average of 1.4MB/s, so there doesn't appear to be any problem with the servers.
Posted December 17, 2008
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Wishbone: I just downloaded Port Royale 2 at an average of 1.4MB/s, so there doesn't appear to be any problem with the servers.

Good for you ... right now, the connection to bitgravity.com does not exceed 15-20 kb/s. I expect the return to the ages of modems and baud around New Year.
Please, GOG, can you please examine this? My provider is the german T-Online with a 16.000 DSL bandwith. And a few weeks ago, downloads from GOG.com were as fast as everything else from the intarwebs. Everything else stays fast, but the connection to bitgravity is getting slower every day.
Thnx in advance for an answer!
Post edited December 17, 2008 by Harzzach
Posted December 17, 2008
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Wishbone: I just downloaded Port Royale 2 at an average of 1.4MB/s, so there doesn't appear to be any problem with the servers.
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Harzzach: Good for you ... right now, the connection to bitgravity.com does not exceed 15-20 kb/s. I expect the return to the ages of modems and baud around New Year.
Please, GOG, can you please examine this? My provider is the german T-Online with a 16.000 DSL bandwith. And a few weeks ago, downloads from GOG.com were as fast as everything else from the intarwebs. Everything else stays fast, but the connection to bitgravity is getting slower every day.
Thnx in advance for an answer!

So that GOG and/or the community can better understand your problem it would be helpful to use industry standards in referencing your speeds in relation to your internet connection.
8 bits = 1 Bytes (capital B for bytes, small b for bits)
kb/s = kilo bits per second
kB/s = kilo Bytes per second
When using "Meg" or a million use capital "M" so as not to confuse the unit of measure with "milli" which is denoted by a small "m."
Industry standard for referencing consumer/business internet connection speeds is in bits per second (b/s).
Consumers or Users tend to refer to their download speeds in bytes per second (B/s) since this is the common method that is displayed to them via a web browser.
When you say that your connection is 16k or 16000 DSL this causes confusion because connections are not referenced that way. I assume you mean 16 Meg bits per second (16Mb/s) since you stated earlier that your normal download speeds where 1M to 1.5M (since 16M divided by 8 is 2M - and then accounting for loss in bandwidth for connection protocols (called "overhead") and any loss over the phone lines - which tends to be more prevalent with copper rather than with fiber optics - this would put you roughly in the 1.5MB/s range for "real world" web browser download speeds).
I'm not trying to be "petty" or anything by pointing this out. Again, my goal is to try and help your situation get resolved as soon as possible.
Post edited December 17, 2008 by HampsterStyle
Posted December 17, 2008
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HampsterStyle: I'm not trying to be "petty" or anything by pointing this out. Again, my goal is to try and help your situation get resolved as soon as possible.

Oh, sry. I assumed, that this was clear enough.
But right now, the problem seems (?) to have solved itself. Download speeds are as usual (around 1.5 megabyte per second). I really have no clue, what was wrong during the last weeks and until now. I changed nothing and i think, the GOG staff did also nothing :)
Maybe if we know, where the servers are located? I see, that Bitgravity is located in California, but i'm not aware about any connection problems from this area to my end of the line.
Posted December 18, 2008
We contacted BitGravity, they checked said their servers and network were doing fine. Their network starts at California but reaches out everywhere and is optimized for high speed download using carefully planned routes to across the net. Problems tend to appear where the ISPs may not have an optimized network and bottlenecks start.
It didn't help that your problem resolved itself ;) they had some ideas how to help debug the situation for them to look into it, so if it happens again, contact our support and we'll go through those steps.
Glad it's back to normal =)
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