I am wondering if anyone else is having this problem (assuming anyone else still uses gog downloader).

Basically what seems to be happening is I am trying to download a game (two games specifically - Omerta and Starcrawlers). With Omerta, it was at around 800mb for a while, I then realised that it kept getting up to around 820mb being downloaded, then it would drop back to 810mb, download a bit more, then drop back to around 800mb. So I stopped that game and tried to download Starcrawlers.

Starcrawlers got up to around 20mb, then dropped back down to 10mb then started from 0.

Anyone else had this problem and/or know what is causing it?

Thanks in advance.

I've not seen this behaviour but if you don't have any info by the time I get home after work, I can try with those games to see if I have issues as well.

I;m not sure with the GoG downloader but anywhere else, that's a sign that the download is corrupted and/ or not passing a hash check.

Stop the download, reboot just to say that you did so, and try again?

Here in the US, we see that with ISPs like Comcast and *shudder* AT&T where you've set off whatever they use for illegal traffic transfers and/ or they don't like the large amount of data you're downloading. They throw in data in an attempt to corrupt the packets. Not saying that that's what you're doing here of course. Just saying it does happen for a number of reasons.

Hope thjs helps

As an aside, I went looking at a couple of the Internet Traffic reporting sites to see if anything was being reported as maxed out and/ or down and came across this:

https://twitter.com/internetaus?lang=en

This one is of interest:

https://twitter.com/NewtonMark/status/945956271345168384

It's sad what some folks have to go through to get internet access.

Thanks guys. So I cleared the downloads and started again from scratch just with Starcrawlers and left it overnight (I can only get downloads of around 200KB/s at my house....)

It got to 891.29MB of 943.13MB and has now just stopped..

I guess I am going to have to download these at work.

Did you ever see "Triangle" with Melissa George? You need to check it out. :D

so you're saying I should find my double and kill him?

good news! I was able to download Starcrawlers!

Good movie.