No, Origin does not report false download speeds.
No, Origin does not report false download speeds.
Origin seems to be performing unusually well given your connection speed. At 6mbps, you're expecting around 750KB per second, yet you're seeing 1.37MB/s. This discrepancy might point to other factors like streaming quality, network congestion, or account-specific optimizations.
You convert megabits to mega bytes to determine your speed, which is quite a bit of a stretch. Origin behaves oddly when downloading Titanfall, pulling resources from other games and maintaining a high download rate over 100MB per second despite a 100Mb connection.
It might involve extracting files during the download, similar to what happened with Titanfall beta where I experienced a speed of 20 MB/s.
Origin retrieves a packaged file and subsequently unpacks it, measuring the actual size of the restored content instead of tracking the original compressed transfer rate.
It seems you're analyzing data trends. Origin shows a download of 3.48GB, while network reports 2.987GB—about 1.2 times the download. This gives a ratio of roughly 1 to 1.2. However, the numbers don't quite match. Adjusting for variability, if network speed ranges from 0.7MB/s to 1.2MB/s, an average of 0.9MB/s makes sense.
The two numbers are shown in megabytes. Due to how Origin processes data, compressed files appear larger than they actually are. That’s why you notice a sudden speed increase of 50MB/s when downloading Titanfall—those audio files were quite large.
If this applies, the total download should be around 12.57GB when considering only compressed values. This comes from dividing the uncompressed size by the ratio I calculated (1:1.2), resulting in approximately 10.48GB. The estimate assumes uniform compression throughout the entire download.