Origin download speeds are very slow
I noticed recently that game downloads and game updates in Origin is very slow. To give you an example, usually on my internet connection I would get an average download speed of 1.5MB per second but recently it averaged at 44kb per second.
After some searching on the internet I could not find a proper solution as most solutions on the net was completely bonkers or just did not make any technical sense. I then decided to scratch around in the Origin client to see if a setting might be causing the slow download speeds. And what do you know, it was a setting in Origin that caused the issue. See the steps below on how I resolved the slow download speeds in Origin. (I still don’t know how the setting got enabled in Origin though)
- Open your Origin client and login.
- At the top left, click on Origin.
- In the drop down menu click on “Application Settings”.
- At the top, now click on “Diagnostics”.
- Look for “Troubleshooting” and make sure that “Safe mode downloading” is NOT on.
- Start your game or update download you will see your download speeds increase to what it used to be.
Below is a screenshot of the setting turned off. I still don’t understand how EA support staff did not once mention the above to their clients on their support forums that I could find.
Origin safe mode downloading setting screen shot
Note I did this on the client version Version 10.4.5.30491 – 0 but it should work for you in earlier or later versions too, but then again thing might change in the future 😉