I disabled ECN on Friday morning, but that didn't seem to help me at all. What I
can report for today is that something has changed with my connection to the Biostore server as of
today - I can login, if for a brief time. The connection is sporadic, and tends to fail after a few seconds to a few minutes, but it was enough to give me my DLC credentials.
I didn't rely on the PC DLC server to copy the files properly to me, though. I immediately went with the manual method for downloading and installing DLC's detailed in 4.1 and 4.2 of
this FAQ. The DLC's worked out for the best, so I did get my authorization from the Biostore server - which means I don't actually need a permanent connection to authorize the DLC's, or even to have one when installing them - it's needed only whenever
one buys/gets new DLC's.I'm not entirely satisfied with the state of affairs as of yet, but it seems to be improving. Whatever the EA IT team is doing with the servers just now, it seems to be slowly working out for the best. Hell, if things work out, I might just trust the in-game authorization/download mechanism to work enough to actually make use of it more often. As it stands, I still have four items in the download queue (the ring from the Character Creator and the three DA: Journeys items), even though they're already installed.
They're at 0%. So far, it seems to be a permanent state of affairs... at least until the next system update.