Adding Torrenting Feature

@tukykarmakar Hi.  Thank you for the thoughtful suggestion.

We have considered the idea of P2P distribution in the past, but there are a number of challenges with commercializing such a system.

One of the key challenges is that such a system would need to be strictly opt-in.  P2P's effectiveness is proportional to its network size.  Opt-in means low utilization, which would result in few peers, and slow download speeds.

Second, if the network is opt-in, then we also need to provide a network for non-opted users.  That either means also supporting a non-P2P network (which adds complexity, since we're doing the same thing in two different ways) or providing EA seed servers around the world and using P2P in download-only mode from those seeds.  At that point, the P2P network would probably just resemble our current network, and likely not perform any better.

Given the choice between the two, we believe most users would opt for the latter (why contribute your electricity and upload bandwidth if you have a viable alternative?), further reducing the value of using P2P.

That's not to say we'll never do this, but hopefully this should give you some insight into why we haven't done it yet.

Origin's downloader should definitely be faster than downloads in your web browser, as browser downloads tend to be single-threaded, whereas Origin is multi-threaded.  I'm not sure why you're seeing something otherwise.  You might try turning on safe mode downloading in the Origin Diagnostic settings and see if it helps.  Alternatively, maybe our support team or other users will have other ideas about things you can try to diagnose or increase your download speeds with Origin.