Re: why are the download speeds extremely slow on origin?

Hi!

Please Read the previous posts.Clearly you haven't read some of the posts, otherwise you'd know some of these steps have been taken.

Here's some highlights

Post #1:  "I have a 100mbps connection, there is no excuse foe this trash. Steam can download a 50gb game in like 5 min, but a 23gb game on origin is taking 5 hours??? And I know the servers are not flooded as nobody really uses origin, and its like this all the time. All ports are open for origin, open on all firewalls, and running as administrator."

Post #7:" that's odd as I have  Uplay, steam, GOG, and Battlenet running one at a time to see what i'm getting there, and its about 8-10mbps and I have a 100mbps connection. Origin is the only one under performing by 600%-900% which is a huge slap in the face to me as a customer. I have origin on all 3 of my firewalls exception list, ports are all forwarded, I did a full network reset in windows, and I have reset my router and modem. I also happen to have a network engineer from apple sitting next to me to analyze this situation, It's clearly not a problem on my part."

Post #8: "Also it's funny that you mention my ISP, as they stated that they've gotten a few calls about the same issue and after they checked, my ISP ALSO suggested that it was your servers. You're proving my point about you guys playing the blame game."

Post #11:"I did all these on my laptop.

It's Origin. I have google fiber. 1000 mb/s. I get 200+ mb/s down from Blizzard app, 100-200 from Steam. 100-200 from World of Tanks, in Russia... and Origin gets 30-35mb/s. I can have Blizzard download Destiny 2 at 200mb/s running in the background, while Origin only hits 30. It's annoying.

Here's an idea! How about Premium subscribers aren't throttled for downloads! Bet you'd get more subs. 

At&t fiber here, 100MB/s on Battle.net and average 80-100MB/s on steam.... 258KB/s on origin. You're not convincing anyone. 

Yo community manager youre not really providing us anything here.

Just going to state the same thing everyone else is saying: I had 70 MB/sec up till 60% then immediately drop to less than 1 MB/sec. Nothing else is running (steam, b.net, or porn etc). Firewall/DNS/etc all fine because it obviously worked for 60% of the download then bam network traffic nose dives. Must be my * ISP right? Except I manage close to 800 megabit/sec to what I am sure is not a full gig capable endpoint 2 states away? Pause BFV download...install full game from Steam in 3min. Resume BFV download get a KB/sec download speed thumbs up!

EA throttles.

I am also trying to download BFV patch at a solid 128.23 KB/s. Which is ridiculous considering I JUST finished DOWNLOADING BO4 5 minutes ago at 150 MB/s. EA needs to fix this asap. This isn't some me problem it's affecting everyone.

same issue, bf v patch downloading super slow, meanwhile I just finished a download on battle.net that was all normal speed. 200-500 kb/s on origin, 5 mb/s on battle.net

I fixed it. BY MY SELF!!!!!!!!! HECKING BAD * STAIN! lol

So, what fixed it for me was to go into /programdata/origin/localcontent/BattlefieldV

And delete everything in there and then reopen origin in Admin mode.

Hope this helps somebody.

And Community Mangement, don't suck your owner dry. LMAO

gonna go try that. I have fiber, everything else goes up and down at 300mbps +, my speed tests are 900. But then I try to DL a game and if it's above 300KBPS! i'm thrilled. WHAT THE HELL?

and now it finished.. but started again with 20gb to go instead of 4? FML

If you are experiencing slow downloads during game updates, please check the following:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Origin-Client-Web-Technical/Origin-Download-Speed-Issues-During-Game-Updates/td-p/7353233

Note, this workaround isn't recommended for capped or slow internet connections.

Dont work. 
Worst client ever. 

Hey everyone; I'll add this to the end. switch your dns resolver to cloudflare. https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setting-up-1.1.1.1/windows/
I went from being lucky to get 1 MB/s to getting what you see in the picture. I have gigabit internet; so something had to be screwy. That's the only tip I have for you, so if that doesn't work, sorry.

Download speeds do not resolve around DNS lookups. It's a peer to peer thing. EA-servers just do not cut it. They have to step up. Epic seems to do a better job.

And a second note, just a minor one on user experience.

The moment you want to start Battelfield V to play a game, it just lets you wait an hour.

Just. like. that.

A few weeks from now, it will happen again. Just like a few weeks ago.

Thing is. I only play Battlefield once a couple of weeks. What about you?

@EA_Darko I tried what you said, and guess what happened....
It deleted the whole damn game off of my computer just to start redownloading the whole game at the same atrocious 2MB/Sec and lower download speed.
I've changed the DNS resolver, I've made Origin exempt in firewall, I closed everything in the background and still same crap.
I managed to exit origin and open it again, as soon as it registered that a download was in progress and it started downloading again it was at 20MB/Sec for maybe a couple of seconds and it was as if your servers said none of that and slammed on the brakes dropping my download rate to below 2MB/Sec...

DNS: 1.1.1.1

Using R&D

Running Origin as Admin

ISP: 133 Mbps Down / 22 Mbps Up

Guess what?  

Still downloading at speeds with Origin (3rd-rate-jackleg-steam-wannabe-client) that are unacceptable and inconsistent. 

Problem is on EA's end and they will continue to blame their customers for their lack of service delivery.  That is their M.O.

Question: If you say the problem isn't with you, then why are the very customers you're blaming able to DL from Steam, Uplay, and other clients at significantly higher speeds?

Answer: Change your gender, get a prosthetic arm, and do a clean boot. If that doesn't work, get a new computer, modem, and router. 

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hi sorry I'm new to this origin *, personalty i think this is just a way for them to steal info in the back ground, what a want to know is i bought the sims4 game, brand new, wanted to install it, it said great a origin account, that i did, then when i want to install the game its downloading the dam game, 14 gb of it, are these origin people insane, who do they think is going to pay for that data?, is there a way to install a game with out this origin * or to stop this game down load because I'm not going to pay for a download if i have the disk's

OMG.. Origin is the only running app on my PC yet.. 60GB game, I only got 10GB downloaded for 24 hours?? no limits for download..  fix it..

I have done every single one of those steps and do not surpass 6MB and also tested my own connections and i get what i pay for which is 45MBPS download. Other game clients such as steam give me what i pay for so instead of pointing the problem towards it being OUR side have your peeps take a look at your systems because y'all obviously * up somewhere, also I am on Lan soooo fix your *

Putting Origin into R&D mode seems to have done the trick for me. Please try: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Store:Origin#Origin_stops_downloading_after_an_ungiven_threshold