MrMaster
What If
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join:2000-12-16
Austin, TX
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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Who works there? Monkeys?
You have to be pretty damn dumb to max out your bandwidth even before going live with a beta. The person in charge of this, who the hell did he/she screw to get their job?
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Alphy
join:2001-12-31
Troy, MI | Wanna take a guess at what the costs are to lease a 500mbit line and for it to through out oh, say maybe 10TB (since the international CS community will ALL be scrambling to get a 40mb patch). Lemme fill you in, its alot. |
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EasyNetwork$
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join:2002-09-01
Brooklyn, NY | Well... speakeasy may come and save them!!! /me crosses fingers
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ryanjms
join:2001-05-05
Beachwood, OH
·Time Warner Cable
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Yes, but if Valve feels that they can create a content delivery system of the future, capable of updating millions of pieces of software, they should have mapped out ahead of time how much the bandwidth would cost them.
500mbit line when thousands of people with 1mbit+ cable and dsl lines are trying to download is completely retarded. It should have been multi-sourced throughout the country with a ton of OC3s and T3s etc... They'd need well over 2-3gbits to serve people with any type of speed. |
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Ronan0
join:2003-01-20
Ireland | reply to Alphy
They should've used a service like Akamai. There's no point in getting a 10TB link for distributing a patch that only comes out once every six months. It'd be much more economical to go with the Akamai model. |
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