why not torrents ????

[username_2093016]

why not torrents ????

I thought GOG would offer the option to download the preorder as a torrent. But strangely they didn't. A password protected torrent, with DHT disabled is perfectly safe.,and the bandwidth benefits for their servers would be unmeasurable. Not to mention we would be able to download it 3 times faster than a regular http download....BTW Is there a way to download all the content at once without having to download the 2GB fragments one by one. I'm using linux and I'm unable to install their download manager (which I'm sure allows a full download)

 

[mippoh]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think GOG's new download manager is based on the peer to peer system (torrent like)

 

[muldred]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think GOG's new download manager is based on the peer to peer system (torrent like)

I don't know but all I know is...the speed I got downloading from GOG is the highest download speed I've ever clocked from a non university line

 

[grunthex]

I don't know but all I know is...the speed I got downloading from GOG is the highest download speed I've ever clocked from a non university line

No kidding. I was pulling down 3.2 M/sec. I don't know much about torrents, but what in the world could they do better?

 

[soldiergeralt]

torrents can never pull that kind of speed. most torrents go at 100kb/s average. bleh

 

[Etainne]

was there something I missed about the GOG downloader? these 4 hours for 2 gb is killing me, since I am hogging all the house bandwidth and there are others here who want to use the internet too For some reason I just couldnt get the downloader to run for me. what did you all do?addendum: nevermind i figured this one out... was a nut loose behind the keyboard.

 

[GuyNwah]

I thought GOG would offer the option to download the preorder as a torrent. But strangely they didn't. A password protected torrent, with DHT disabled is perfectly safe.,and the bandwidth benefits for their servers would be unmeasurable. Not to mention we would be able to download it 3 times faster than a regular http download....BTW Is there a way to download all the content at once without having to download the 2GB fragments one by one. I'm using linux and I'm unable to install their download manager (which I'm sure allows a full download)

Torrent downloads are dependent on the speed and capacity of your peers. While this is great for cooperative efforts, such as distributing FOSS like Linux, it is too uncertain for a commercial venture. If it's worth selling, it's worth provisioning enough servers to get it into your customers' hands.Running torrents over an asymmetrical network like cable or ADSL is also antisocial and may be a violation of ISP policy. Asymmetrical networks have much greater downlink capacity than uplink, and torrenting over such a network taxes the uplink capacity heavily. The result is poor performance for everybody, including your neighbors, and headaches for the ISP.I don't think GOG would want to take the blame for poor performance that arose from using a peer-to-peer distribution scheme when they can well afford to provision servers. And I also don't think they're so callous as to expose customers to sanctions from their ISPs.The way they chose to distribute the pre-download was the best one, and the job they did of provisioning has been almost flawless. The remarkable download speed reported by most of the users who have reported and the rarity of unsolvable problems so far attest to that.

 

[Vlk5]

BTW Is there a way to download all the content at once without having to download the 2GB fragments one by one. I'm using linux and I'm unable to install their download manager (which I'm sure allows a full download)

for now only with the GOG downloader, and if it is gonna be another way i don't know.

 

[Kaldurenik]

Fastest i have gone on a torrent (from blizzard) was 23mb/sAnyway the speed of a torrent is affected by the ratio of people "leaching" and "seeding".Then there are limits on thier connection and your connection. But lets say you limit it to 10 downloads. Then depending on thier connections you could get 2mb from each one of them bringing you to 20mb/s (if your connection allow it)

 

[DelighfulMcCoy]

BTW Is there a way to download all the content at once without having to download the 2GB fragments one by one. I'm using linux and I'm unable to install their download manager (which I'm sure allows a full download)

for now only with the GOG downloader, and if it is gonna be another way i don't know.

I use Down Them All for Firefox. With this, I can either load multipe parts one by one or all simultaneously. I can use all available bandwith, if I'm in a hurry, or restrict it to a level, that makes using the web not slow to a crawl. I'm sure there are other download accelerators for other browsers that have these options as well. And if you ever downloaded any files larger than a few MBs, I should think you might have thought about a different way to do that than with the browser long before yesterday. It was to be expected that 9,6GB is a large amount of data, right?I guess a torrent would crawl for days, a direct download can be finished in a matter of hours, depending on your own bandwith. The bandwith of GoG was definitely adquate.

 

[Licaon_Kter]

not to mention they need to create ( adapt ) a torrent client that is good/safe/secure

 

[Senteria]

I downloaded with 1600 kb/s. That's my maximum speed. I could not download it faster even if I wanted to. I am very content I got to download it this way. Simple, fast, and just great.

 

[archaven.84]

No torrent!.. We may be sharing the files with pirates.. Don't ruin CDPR! They used 4 years to make the game and they are poor. They need our support.

 

[DelighfulMcCoy]

No torrent!.. We may be sharing the files with pirates.. Don't ruin CDPR! They used 4 years to make the game and they are poor. They need our support.

Boy, would you please start thinking for once, before you gabble about things you don't know anything about, just for sake of increasing your post count with spam threads and spam postings like this. You don't know how torrent works and what a secure torrent is? Or that torrents are not restricted to pirates? If you want to share your knowledge, aquire some first. The way you keep on prattling about everything (repeating everything twice, too), you don't really present yourself in a favorable light. If you want to share your opinions, form one first and don't change it up every two minutes. Sorry to explode on you in the forum, but you won't take a hint when talked to privately and in good will.

 

[archaven.84]

No torrent!.. We may be sharing the files with pirates.. Don't ruin CDPR! They used 4 years to make the game and they are poor. They need our support.

Boy, would you please start thinking for once, before you gabble about things you don't know anything about, just for sake of increasing your post count with spam threads and spam postings like this. You don't know how torrent works and what a secure torrent is? Or that torrents are not restricted to pirates? If you want to share your knowledge, aquire some first. The way you keep on prattling about everything (repeating everything twice, too), you don't really present yourself in a favorable light. If you want to share your opinions, form one first and don't change it up every two minutes. Sorry to explode on you in the forum, but you won't take a hint when talked to privately and in good will.

I think torrent is more of a community service whereby there must be sufficient seeders and is dependent on the location of these people who share amongst each other. Speed may not be good when specific ports used in the torrent client were not correctly forwarded in routers and there's alot of users who are not aware of it. Correct me if i'm wrong. The speed heavily relies on the seeders (most probably voluntary fans).. If that is the case it is the FAN who is helping GoG distributing the content instead.. Most torrents users are only looking to get the files as soon as possible and won't likely in helping seeding once they finish leeching. I for one would much prefer direct download via http instead. It is the responsibility of the content provider to distribute the content to it's customers.. and not asking the customers helping them distribute it.But if it's really such a huge request.. i don't foresee why they wouldn't do so.

 

[greenfish]

I thought GOG would offer the option to download the preorder as a torrent. But strangely they didn't. A password protected torrent, with DHT disabled is perfectly safe.,and the bandwidth benefits for their servers would be unmeasurable. Not to mention we would be able to download it 3 times faster than a regular http download....BTW Is there a way to download all the content at once without having to download the 2GB fragments one by one. I'm using linux and I'm unable to install their download manager (which I'm sure allows a full download)

You seem like a VERY confused individual, I suggest you go through a wikipedia for a few hours reading up on SERVERS vs p2p.FTP/HTTP/NNTP = Unlimited (depending on server)P2P = limited

 

[Corylea.723]

The GOG download was blazingly fast. When the downloader paused, I thought it had finished the first chunk of the game, but no -- it had finished the whole thing. The one qualm I had about ordering from GOG was about the availability of the download, given that they mostly sell old games, so they don't usually get as much traffic as they'll be getting for TW2. Those concerns have been blasted into smithereens -- the download is incredibly fast!

 

[SystemShock7]

Why torrents?The GOG downloader worked great for me. It actually downloaded the files in little chunks: each 2GB chunk one would get through a browser came in 40 chucks through the GOG downloader.

 

[ryannberg]

I have never ever seen a Torrent get anywhere close to my max internet speed. But with Steam, Direct2Drive, GoG, I always get my max speed.

 

[username_2093016]

I thought GOG would offer the option to download the preorder as a torrent. But strangely they didn't. A password protected torrent, with DHT disabled is perfectly safe.,and the bandwidth benefits for their servers would be unmeasurable. Not to mention we would be able to download it 3 times faster than a regular http download....BTW Is there a way to download all the content at once without having to download the 2GB fragments one by one. I'm using linux and I'm unable to install their download manager (which I'm sure allows a full download)

You seem like a VERY confused individual, I suggest you go through a wikipedia for a few hours reading up on SERVERS vs p2p.FTP/HTTP/NNTP = Unlimited (depending on server)P2P = limited

lmao.....lmao x2 I have to forgive your blatant ignorance, I realize the less people know, the more they think the do.