I got one of those free half-life 2 coupons with my AIW 9600 PRO, but i was thinking...when the Game comes out and you have all these people hitting Valve's Steam servers...its not gonna be pretty. Will there be alternative sites to download it from?
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In theory, and if memory serves me correctly, Steam should also act like a P2P network. Meaning Steam's won't be the only server pushing the HL2 package. But the P2P feature may have been removed, I haven't messed with Steam in a while.
All Valve really needs to do is hire Akamai to host it and they're set.
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An interesting morning to say thatOriginally posted by Jammrock
All Valve really needs to do is hire Akamai to host it and they're set.
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know something we dont?Originally posted by Wombat
An interesting morning to say that
Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?Comment
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Valve hired the guy who wrote BitTorrent a while back
I think this is what Wombat was referring http://isc.incidents.org/Last edited by TnT; 15 June 2004, 10:01.Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
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Steam preloads software before release. CS:CZ was cached to computers before you could buy it. That way the system could handle the load. Also they rent extra servers when there is a major update or release.
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Re: HL2 Question
Don't worry your coupon will be invalid by then if the game ever sees the light of day.Originally posted by GT98
I got one of those free half-life 2 coupons with my AIW 9600 PRO, but i was thinking...when the Game comes out and you have all these people hitting Valve's Steam servers...its not gonna be pretty. Will there be alternative sites to download it from?Comment
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