Why does origin download so slow

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I get really poor download speeds compared to my connection coming in. This has been going on since I've had Virgin. I thought it must just be the steam download servers running slowly but me and my friend downloaded the same game at the same time and he was getting 110MB peak (Talk talk UFO FTTP) & I was getting 25/30 Peak. The best speeds I get are from the Sweden Malmo server. I've tried changing servers - Manchester server is closest to me but very poor speed wise. I get around 25MB peak download speeds from steam. This means I should be downloading from steam etc at a rate of at least 60-70MB/s. (Via - no other speedtest website gets anywhere near close to what my speed should be) My average download speeds are around 700Mbps (Should get nearer 1Gig as the package name suggests but thats for another time).

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