The current download speeds from the patcher are around 2000KB's average. I think almost everyone has more than a good enough internet connection to benefit from a better download source.
Why can't we just torrent the game?
edit, i mean an official riot-provided torrent
3rd party downloads always come with the risk of someone packing it with a virus and distributing it.
Edit: Now that he clarified torrented directly from Riot, sure.
Doesn't the patcher use a built-in peer-to-peer system to patch from other (relatively) local users?
it's more a problem that the NA servers are so massively bloated with users that it literally slows EVERYTHING down. You know those general ping increases that have been occurring for all users over the past 2 years? That's the Server bloat. You can tell because you can get WAY better ping on the PBE than on Live because the PBE has less traffic and users.
On live I get 95-105 Ping, on the PBE I get 65-75. that's HUGE. Riot just needs to amp up server capacity.
