Wow, I was going to add my two cents about the slow download speeds but even the choice of forum package sucks lol.

Anyway I am trying to download the installer files for RE2 and I cant get more than 2.0Mbps, yes Mb/s not MB/s, on a gig fiber line. Downloading from the galaxy/heroic client doesnt give you the installer files so thats sort of a silly suggestion. Guess I will wait 3 hours to download 0.9GB lmao.

My regular download speeds are fine, even updating from Flathub for Flatpaks is 170MBps

I don't think this one is GOG issues. Did you try troubleshooting at all?

Just to point out that you did not write it correctly, by convention:

Megabits per second => Mbps
Megabytes per second => MB/s

Notice not only the capitalisation but also the / instead of the p.

And 2.9MB/s is not dialup speed. You might be thinking of 2.9KB/s.

the actual file could be on one of a few different cms so yes an old game @ location/ times of high traffic = fuck you speeds form Gog... their system was set up for file sizes that modern devs would assume is just a save file not the actaul game

As far as I know Galaxy has the option to download installers. I don't use Galaxy so I can't tell you how.

Yep, that's why I'm simply using Galaxy just to download the offline installers (since the download speed on the browser's unbearably slow). It's found in the game page (not the store page) of your owned games, specifically in the Extras section. There you'll be able to download the offline installers as well as other things like the game's soundtracks, artworks, etc.

Yes, GOG Galaxy allows you to download the offline installer, which is the best way to do it. I also see the website as a good backup. When GOG Galaxy was down, the website was still working, and I appreciate having two options.

However, GOG Galaxy is not available for Linux. I'm not sure what to do about that.

I don't think there is such distinction? Using "p" or "/" to mean "per" is mainly a matter of preference, in either case (bits or Bytes)

I prefer always writing Mbit/s or MByte/s (or sometimes even using plural and sec, like MBytes/sec), just so that it is not unclear to anyone what I am talking about.

Luckily I still seem to be getting around 18-20 MBytes/sec with a browser... That is fast enough for me even though my theoretical maximum is 75 MBytes/sec (600 Mbits/sec).

You seem to be right, a lot of websites have both.

I got a headache just reading them, maybe it was wishful thinking on my part that everyone had decided on a way to distinguish these after how many years...

Apologies to the OP.

Not sure, but to me the "Mbps" (with p) way of talking about network speeds seems an "American thing", for some reason I see US peeps using it mostly. A bit like AM and PM when talking about time, while the rest of the world seems to use the "military time", like right now the time here is 15:33 (3:33PM to Americans).

EDIT: Just realized, funny thing though, we don't say that out loud, like we don't say "half past fifteen", but "half past three". If we write it down, we write "15.30".

Standardisation of dates/time is a lost cause. Too much time passed before standardisation became a thing.

My assumptions probably came from Windows XP terminology then - probably made sense at the time.

The ISO standard (IEC 80000-13) suggests Mbit/s and MB/s, which makes sense if you think of bit and B as SI units (which they are technically not, but you can use the same rules for them (SI prefixes, and slashes for ratios of units). Never too late to learn!

It's fifteen-thirty hours if you want to go military with 24 hour notation.