Yeah I think the one corrupt one I had was using the downloader but then none of my computers react too well to adobe software that isn't photoshop 6

Alright, I owe an apology to GOG regarding the corrupted file.
It turns out that while I was out of the house the power went off. Hence my DL was killed.
If I had of used a download manager I might have been okay, but obviously the GOG downloader couldn't handle it.
So yes, it was a problem on my end.

Ahh that would explain it. Hope things will work better for you in the future

Hopefully the downloader will be able to handle such things in the future. But fair enough, we're still in beta.

for a beta version i really can't find a lot of problems.
they've done a good job. I used the downloader yesterday and it seems to work fine at the moment.
BTW , in belgium we to have a download limit. Max 15GB / month if you download during the day.
Between 00:00 and 10:00 every GB downloaded only counts as 500megs.
So basiccly if downloads are done nightly we can download 30GB @ 1.2-1.5MB/sec

Yeah there's some ISP here that does the double rates at night thing, not sure if I prefer that or just a stupidly big cap you can't hope to use at night

That is a pretty bad first experience. But this reads more like an ISP complaint than a GOG one. Although I can understand why you'd be hesitant to risk downloading large corrupted files, that can happen through any service. I've had problems with Steam before, but not GOG.
It's just the way it goes. Again, a crappy connection is more likely to blame than GOG. As you can tell by the reviews on the game's page, others have had no problems at all.

I have 2mbps download speed and 512kbps upload speed. With no limit. For only ~10 EUR per month.
For once, I am glad I live in this stupid country.

This is the reason that it'd be nice to have some form of secure authenticated torrent like app used for GOG, something where you could be authorised at the point of sale and we could help ease the server load by sharing files between ourselves (but obviously the authentication would block people trying to get games they haven't bought)

Happens to me once, while downloading "Darkstar One". Well "once" is not quite correct. Over the course of a day, i downloaded the archives (with the GOG-tool and via direct http) several times and always was one of the four archives corrupt, Gladly i had a flatrate (and a fast one), but frustrating it was nevertheless. Then i simply had enough, came back a week later, before asking for refund, using once more the GOG-Downloader .... et voila, suddenly everything was fine. I don't know exactly what caused this problem, but happening at a time, when there were constant and massive connection problems between my provider (german T-Com) and the ISP of GOGs filespace provider Bitcast, this could have been the root of the problem.

I nice idea in theory, but it would probably be cheaper to set up some mirrors. Security is costly and that would require a lot of it to stop abuse. Not to mention all the hotfixes for exploits over time. GOG don't really seem to want all the hassle of IP protection and I can't see publishers supporting the idea if it wasn't properly secure.

How exactly does your bandwidth cap stuff work down there in the land of Yahoo Serious?
How come your steam downloads dont count towards your cap? It would seem to me that if data received through a "content provider" doesn't go towards your cap than it wouldn't be too difficult to set up some kind of proxy server to get all your d/l's through no?
Could just be talking outta me arse here, my computer expertise lies solely in getting dos games work. Boot disks. Yeh baby.

I've never had a single problem with the GOG downloader, and I greatly appreciate it over a browser downloader, downloaded 10 games, some multiple times, some with browser, some with GOG Downloader, never had a corrupt file.

Basically we pay a far too large monthly fee and get allocated a set amount of bandwidth, for the most part all downloads deplete it as you would expect but some ISPs, notably internode, have deals with certain content providers (ABC TV, steam & xbox live are the 3 popular ones) where any bandwidth used isn't counted towards the user's cap.
Those 3 features are about the only reason I can complain about my ISP, they don't support them yet

Glad to hear the problem was something simple. Hopefully everything works without any problems from here on out, and enjoy Gothic 2.