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Fellow GOGgers, we seek your aid! In order to improve downloads as much as possible, we would like you to participate in a little test. Don't worry, it won't take too much of your time and you can get free stuff in the process. :)

Here's the deal. Before you start downloading, please check your connection's speed. Ideally, you should use a service like Speedtest. We will also need to know where you live (the country will be enough - the state could be useful as well if you're from the US of A), but that's an easy one, right?

Now try downloading the files from the links below, one at a time. Keep downloading until your download speed stabilizes (usually no more than a minute) and write down the result. Rinse and repeat for each link:
LINK 1,
LINK 2,
LINK 3,
LINK 4.

Afterwards please share the results, along with your connection speed and location, in a reply to this thread. Please refrain from chatter and comments, unless you experienced problems with any of the links or the download speed wasn't consistent. In case of inconsistent download speeds, please give us a rough average, rather than "from-to" brackets.

To sweeten the deal, we've got promo codes for one free game waiting for 10 lucky participants (one code each). :)

Just so we're all on the same page, the reply should look like the example below.

Connection speed: 13.5 Mbps
Location: Poland
LINK 1: 950 kB/s
LINK 2: 850 kB/s (inconsistent)
LINK 3: 870 kB/s
LINK 4: N/A (couldn't start download)
Post edited March 24, 2011 by Destro
Connection speed: 6.40 Mbps
Location: Estonia
LINK1: 720 kB/s
LINK2: 520 kB/s
LINK3: 782 kB/s
LINK4: 780 kB/s
Connection Speed : 9.83 Mbps
Location : United Kingdom
Link 1 : 400 kB/s (highly iinconsistent)
Link 2 : 200 kB/s (inconsistent)
Link 3 : 250 Kb/s (inconsistent)
Link 4 : 295 Kb/s

As a gauge, I was just downloading from Steam at 1.1MB/s before cancelling that to do this.
Connection speed: 5.81 Mbps
Location: Arizona
LINK 1: 100-550 kB/s (inconsistent)
LINK 2: 700-714 kB/s
LINK 3: 705 kB/s
LINK 4: 600-714 kB/s (usually high with dips)

My connection is supposed to be 25 Mbps from Cox Communications' Premier plan, and I'm usually unable to reach speeds beyond 450kB/s from almost everywhere I download.
Connection: 20 Mbps
Location: USA / Chicago, IL
Link 1: 500 Kbps (inconsistent)
Link 2: 1780 Kbps
Link 3: 1140 Kbps
Link 4: 1775 Kbps (inconsistent)
WA, USA
3.28 mpbs
Link 1: [460-505]kbps Inconsistent
Link 2: [300-505]kbps Inconsistent
Link 3: [150-175]kbps Inconsistent
Link 3: [239-320]kbps Inconsistent

I found all of the links to be pretty unstable, they did sort of settle into those ranges, but I didn't see that much stability. It's also worth noting that when I tried a bandwidth test between here and New York, I got 1.17mbps whereas this is bypassing the backbone.

EDIT: There wasn't any converging on any sort of reasonable average, it was constantly changing by large quantities.
Post edited March 24, 2011 by hedwards
Connection: 100Mbps/100Mbps
Location: Oslo/Norway
Link 1: 9,15 MB/s
Link 2: 6,95 MB/s
Link 3: 1,9 MB/s
Link 4: 1,05 MB/s
Connection speed: 9.79 Mbps
Location: UK
LINK 1: 1009 kB/s
LINK 2: 1173 kB/s
LINK 3: 969 kB/s
LINK 4: 945 kB/s
Connection speed: 2Mbps
Location: Italy
Link 1: 200 kB/s (stable)
Link 2: 130 kB/s (stable)
Link 3: 160 kB/s (very unstable)
Link 4: 130 kB/s (unstable)
Connection Speed: 2 Mbps
Location: Poland
LINK 1: 252 kB/s
LINK 2: 251 kB/s
LINK 3: 250 kB/s
LINK 4: 248 kB/s
Connection speed: 3.62 Mbps
Location: Tennessee, USA
LINK 1: 4040 kB/s
LINK 2: 397 kB/s
LINK 3: 392 kB/s
LINK 4: 430 kB/s
Connection speed: 9.67 Mbps
Location: Brazil
Link 1: 40 KB/s inconsistent
Link 2: 115 KB/s
Link 3: 113 KB/s
Link 4: 130 KB/s
Connection speed: 15 Mbps
Location: Buffalo, New York, USA
LINK 1: 1.75 MB/s
LINK 2: 1.75 MB/s
LINK 3: 1.75 MB/s
LINK 4: 1.75 MB/s

All of them maxed out my connection, jumping between 1.6MB/s to 2MB/s (over my speed cap).
Connection speed: 6.99 Mbps
Location: Poland
LINK 1: 848 kB/s
LINK 2: 850 kB/s
LINK 3: 780 kB/s (inconsistent)
LINK 4: 840 kB/s
Connection speed: 200 Mbps
Location: WA, US of A
LINK 1: 300 kB/s (inconstistent from 50 to 350)
LINK 2: 210 kB/s
LINK 3: 210 kB/s
LINK 4: 240 kB/s
Connection speed: 6.58 Mbps
Location: United Kingdom
LINK 1: 800 kB/s
LINK 2: 800 kB/s
LINK 3: 790 kB/s
LINK 4: 780 kB/s