Tried the new Steam system from Valve last night. I’ve tried a few other ‘play on our server’ setups before…but color me impressed.
I was playing Counterstrike, which is not installed on my system, online while streaming content from thier server. No lag, no hiccups and very fast to get up and running…not a ‘please wait 5 minutes for content’.Very cool. The tech, not the game, I still loathe CS.
FYI- if you get Steam from Fileplanet 1/2 Life and all expansions are free to play.
I have to read up on this a bit, but if it works the way I think it does, Valve could be a new form of publisher. 40 bucks for a game with minimal overhead, and the money going right to them not to Sierra or M$ or whoever they are working for/with. Hell, I’d make Half Life 2 a Steam Only until after Christmas. Force the fanbase to try it and reap the initial sell though directly into thier pockets.
They’d better have a lot of bandwidth.
Stroker hit it right on the button. The CS 1.6 release crushed the Steam servers & they had to close Steam signups in what? Three hours? I have never bothered to see if they opened it up again.
I might give the Steam 2.0 a try, since it sounds interesting. The thought of CS make me shudder a little bit though, since I’m way past done with it.
When I played the CS 1.6 beta through Steam, it created a LOT of extra lag on both the server and the client. A lot of the beta players that I regularly tested with got frustrated with the issues that Steam caused and went back to the old version. Hearing ‘god damn steam lag’ is pretty common on CS 1.6 servers.
sorry for the necro, this is the only steam thread I have found
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
They have 1.2 Tbps.
Some interesting stats, ISP/Speed
USA:
Comcast 25.8 Mbps
Time Warner 17.7 Mbps
AT&T 8.3 Mbps
Verizon 15.8 Mbps
Charter 25 Mbps
Cox 20.3 Mbps
CenturyLink 6.8 Mbps
Cablevision 19.8 Mbps
Bright House Networks 21.4 Mbps
Suddenlink 15.3 Mbps
UK:
Virgin 29.6 Mbps
BT 12 Mbps
BSKYB 7.6 Mbps
TalkTalk 7.4 Mbps
PlusNet 9.4 Mbps
Orange UK 6.9 Mbps
Tiscali UK 7.5 Mbps
Janet 25.5 Mbps
KINGSTON-UK-AS KCOM Group Public Limited Company,GB 8.5 Mbps
Cablecom 15.6 Mbps
Spain:
Telefnica de Espaa 9.3 Mbps
Cableuropa 23.2 Mbps
JAZZNET Jazz Telecom S.A.,ES 9.3 Mbps
UNI2-AS France Telecom Espana SA,ES 5.7 Mbps
COMUNITEL VODAFONE ESPANA S.A.U.,ES 6.1 Mbps
R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia, S.A.,ES 16.3 Mbps
EUSKALTEL Euskaltel S.A.,ES 27.7 Mbps
TELECABLE Telecable de Asturias,SA,ES 32.9 Mbps
VODAFONE_ES VODAFONE ESPANA S.A.U.,ES 8.9 Mbps
SERVIHOSTING-AS ServiHosting Networks S.L.,ES 6.4 Mbps
Japan:
NTT 36.7 Mbps
KDDI 36.2 Mbps
Softbank BB 22.3 Mbps
So-net 42.2 Mbps
NEC Biglobe 42.6 Mbps
K-Opticom 48.7 Mbps
AS9824 24.9 Mbps
INFOWEB FUJITSU LIMITED,JP 37.3 Mbps
FBDC FreeBit Co.,Ltd.,JP 21.9 Mbps
IIJ Internet Initiative Japan Inc.,JP 39.3 Mbps
Germany:
Deutsche Telekom AG 7.1 Mbps
Kabel Deutschland 19.7 Mbps
Vodafone DE 5.7 Mbps
Unitymedia 26.4 Mbps
Telefonica Germany 7 Mbps
Kabel BW 23.7 Mbps
EWETEL EWE TEL GmbH,DE 7.8 Mbps
NetCologne 9.2 Mbps
Versatel Deutschland 5.3 Mbps
M-Net 10.4 Mbps
It seems speed come mostly in two versions, glorious 20+ Mbps and plebian <9 Mbps.
Moving to Japan. Sayonara!
I wish you wrote BUY VALVE SHARES NOW at the end of that message.