Origin Headache

[skullo13]

warning: I use a bit of slang terms here, grammar paparazzi might find this article offensive
Not sure where to post this so i'm just gonna leave it here....

My problem:
So i got myself that great EA Humble Bundle and i thought i hit a top luck, my problem now is that trying to download Battlefield3 is gonna take me months at my current rate. The download starts fine but soon just stops, it does not indicate that it has paused, or stopped, or even that my KB/sec has dropped, it is as if my downloads get stuck and i have to restart Origin to get them starting again(only getting 1% of the complete download through at a time, if i'm lucky). I tried downloading Deadspace 3 and had the same problem. I have steam and have had no problems downloading any games from the bundles thus far(which is a total of two, including this 1).Telkom is my current ADSL service provider(it's uncapped), they can be a problem at times.

My question:
Has anyone that got this bundle, or anyone that has origin, had this problem or problem similar to mine. Any help would be appreciated, thanx...

[MalicE]

Origin is quite useless, but we have to live with it

I followed dohc's advice and it worked quite well

what i did with mass effect 2 is i grabbed a pirate copy (disc version) at the OC installed it, pointed origin to install ME2 (my digital download version) into that folder, origin verifies all the files and just downloads the necessary files which was about 100megs and bobs ur uncle. im hoping you can do the same with all other origin titles

[Pooky]

Origin is quite useless, but we have to live with it

I followed dohc's advice and it worked quite well

Just be careful... I had BF3 and copied the folder to backup, reinstall windows, and then when I pointed Origin to the folder it deleted all the files and then tried to download them again.

[MalicE]

Just be careful... I had BF3 and copied the folder to backup, reinstall windows, and then when I pointed Origin to the folder it deleted all the files and then tried to download them again.

yes it is a bit full of shit with BF3. my dead space it worked 99%, only made a small download (probably a patch). but BF3 it got to 55% and then started downloading

[skullo13]

Thank you for the advice, i'll go put on my pirate hat and get a torrent