why are the download speeds extremely slow on origin?
So why are origin download speeds bad all the time? 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...
If you are seeing slower speeds when downloading then this points to an issue most likely with your network or how your ISP is routing your data. I tested this at home a couple weeks back when someone else posts about the speeds being throttled and was hitting download speeds well in excess of 30MBS. If you are still seeing slow downloads then this you can try the following steps:
Disable all background programs on your system (including Steam). You can also do this with a clean boot
Temporarily disconnect all other devices that you don't need from your network
You can also try using Safe Mode Downloading via Origin which is under Application Settings, Advanced
Anonymous
7 years ago
Because EA is so intensely reputable when it comes to releasing half-assed products with the completion through DLC, I feel like I can blame them for this problem, however, my isp is probably to blame as well. 2.5mbps is uh...well I'm not complaining because it forces me to do something productive while I wait, but on Steam I'm sitting at anywhere between equal and 10mbps.
This can probably be blamed on both EA and the isp for both throttling what you're paying for...althrough you probably aren't paying for EAs bandwidth.
If you are seeing slower speeds when downloading then this points to an issue most likely with your network or how your ISP is routing your data. I tested this at home a couple weeks back when someone else posts about the speeds being throttled and was hitting download speeds well in excess of 30MBS. If you are still seeing slow downloads then this you can try the following steps:
Disable all background programs on your system (including Steam). You can also do this with a clean boot
Temporarily disconnect all other devices that you don't need from your network
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.
the Netstat -n -p tcp -b | more command returns with a long list of IPs with a state of Time_wait.
I did the same thing as you and here's what I got, with the IPs censored.
Tracing route to a23-192-239-111.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [23.192.239.111] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 15 ms 2 ms 1 ms [Censored] 2 12 ms 14 ms 23 ms [Censored] 3 86 ms * 14 ms [Censoring my ISP IP] 4 33 ms 19 ms 33 ms [Censoring my ISP's IP] 5 45 ms 38 ms 20 ms [Censoring my ISP's IP] 6 37 ms 38 ms 37 ms xe-4-0-3.cr0-mtl1.ip4.gtt.net [77.67.70.77] 7 94 ms 91 ms 92 ms et-0-0-67.cr4-lax2.ip4.gtt.net [89.149.140.77] 8 102 ms 103 ms 102 ms singapore-telecommunications-gw.ip4.gtt.net [199.229.229.222] 9 138 ms 102 ms 102 ms 203.208.172.213 10 273 ms 255 ms 258 ms 203.208.174.50 11 279 ms 279 ms 279 ms 59.154.18.32 12 384 ms 280 ms 291 ms 220.101.41.26 13 277 ms 280 ms 289 ms a23-192-239-111.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [23.192.239.111]
Trace complete.
The first thing that gets me is that it goes to Singapore, and the MS seems about right.
Tracing route to a184-84-165-131.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [184.84.165.131] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 39 ms 55 ms 1 ms [Censored] 2 9 ms 33 ms 9 ms [Censored] 3 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms [Censoring my ISP's IP] 4 22 ms 33 ms 36 ms [Censoring my ISP's IP] 5 18 ms 17 ms 16 ms [Censoring my ISP's IP] 6 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms [Censoring my ISP's IP] 7 37 ms 38 ms 48 ms core1.nyc4.he.net [198.32.118.57] 8 98 ms 98 ms 116 ms 100ge8-1.core1.sjc2.he.net [184.105.81.213] 9 99 ms 97 ms 98 ms 100ge13-2.core1.sjc1.he.net [184.105.65.113] 10 98 ms 98 ms 104 ms vocus.gigabitethernet2-13.core1.sjc1.he.net [64.71.184.46] 11 261 ms 280 ms 260 ms bundle-153.cor02.sjc01.ca.vocus.net [49.255.255.24] 12 260 ms 266 ms 267 ms BE-201.cor02.syd04.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [49.255.255.13] 13 257 ms 255 ms 261 ms bundle-101.bdr05.syd03.nsw.vocus.net.au [114.31.192.59] 14 516 ms 300 ms 281 ms asn20940.cust.bdr04.syd03.nsw.vocus.net.au [175.45.124.226] 15 356 ms 288 ms 272 ms a184-84-165-131.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [184.84.165.131]
Trace complete.
it seems to me that some of the servers or hops are across the ocean in SEA or Elsewhere, seeing as though you're in Australia and I'm in Canada, my understanding is the less hops the quicker, and it may help if you're closer. Still doesn't help the speed issue. I'm even using Developer mode and i'm STILL seeing speeds of less than 5MB/s. Steam easily gets about 15MB/s. Face it guys, you're throttling speeds and lying about it. Hope you get the worst company in America award again.
Player first my foot!"
Post #14: "Tried disabling steam and other background programs over the last 5+ years and nothing worked. I have a 19-21 MB/s connection. Origin RARELY gets 4MB/s. Trust me, I've tried practically everything."
I'm using a wired connection
Origin is allowed through my antivirusn and Windows firewalls
Safemode does nothing
it's already been stated that all background programs were disabled and I've been attempting this for 5+ years. Meanwhile your issue has been persisting for 10ish years.
I'm subscribed to at least 2 or 3 other threads just like this and all other members confirm it's not working. Occasionally someone claims it works, but clearly it's not been working yet!
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
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.
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
Yo community manager youre not really providing us anything here.
Anonymous
7 years ago
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.
Anonymous
7 years ago
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.
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?
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 *
I was having 2-4.5 MBps download speeds, and could not figure out why. Tried a variety of things that didn't seem to work, and I have a gigabit connection. Did what this person suggested and instantly better speeds!
I do not have a good connection in general and would only ever expect around 1Mbp/s at peak performance.
Origin was downloading at 100-200kbp/s, spiking at 270kpb/s, dipping to 50kbp/s - which even I felt was slow.
After - opening ports in windows firewall - adding origin to firewall exceptions
- disabling router firewall
- running in R&D mode as an administrator
Origin now downloads at 700-850kbp/s, spiking at 1000kpb/s, dipping to 400kbp/s
Thanks to those who left good knowledge here.
I'm gonna add my 2 cents and say that people really need to calm down and realise that networks are a complex thing. There are 101 reasons why your specific set up, isn't achieving optimal results. To come here and berate staff, leave lengthy walls of text and generally just take your problems out on others - is childish.
- Chose local DNS manually (google was not so fast and it didnt work)
Now I have 1500kbps.
Since many people are having this issue, you just need to find the best local DNS. I did not have this issue with my roaming mobile data or work network (both roam to different countries), I only had the problem with local home network.
Edit// EA tech support chat didnt even understand the issue and basically just told me to reboot/clean boot the app..
Just found this post, and I am having some speed issues myself...
It varies a lot in different downloading sessions, for example just now SW Bf2 is downloading at almost 40MB/Sec, and some ten minutes ago BF V was downloading at about 100kB/sec...
The fun part in this, was that when I tried speedtest from ookla at the same time I was experiencing the slow speed, it boosted up to full speed...
I have no idea why this is the case for me, but felt like adding this comment to see if anyone else would try if speedtest was the solution??!
No, just kidding... It DOES help, but obviously you can not run speedtest all the time of the download...
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