May 2021
how to limit/throttle download speed in EA Desktop app ?
my family angry because when i download game , internet speed became slow
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November 2022
Hey everyone,
The EA app does now allow download speed to be limited, just in case that update was missed.
You can find and change this option under Settings > Download > Limit download rate.
Thank you for the patience with this and for all the feedback!
December 2020
I see that EA Desktop has some controls to set a download speed limit, but they are locked to Unlimited with the mouse cursor just turning into a "nope" cursor when hovering on them. It would be great to be able to set the limits so that I can safely do these huge downloads in the background while for example watching streaming videos and not have the EA download take up all the bandwidth.
On the plus side, at least currently it is able to use my 100 Mbps connection fully to download the games. I just wouldn't always want it to
March 2021
where is this setting???
March 2021
Just checked the Trello board and this isn't even listed as an Item on there?
To be taken seriously as a platform, this is the most basic of functionality that should be expected!
May 2021 - last edited May 2021
Hey @iyus1the best thing to do in a situation such as this may be to download and update your games when others aren't using the internet. I find that it's best to do the brunt of my downloading early in the morning or later at night so as to ensure that no one else's connection is affected by my downloading games.
Darko
May 2021
I find instead of using EA Desktop App, I find Steam and Epic work much better; they have advanced features such as download rate limiting.
Hopefully EA is able to figure this out (hopefully in a few years) I can purchase content from them again.
July 2021
I mean or EA could just put the download restriction setting back in, that was in Origin so people can download stuff however they want instead of having to work around other peoples schedules. My connection isn't the fastest ever and I like to be able to set my downloads to only use half or so of my bandwidth. So perhaps I can play something else, or watch a show while it downloads.
But whatevs EA's not going to do anything about it.
July 2021
That's really not the best thing. So I have to wait until tomorrow to play a game I'm excited for now? Gimme a break. Just implement this feature in the app smh
July 2021
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