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ggrobot
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 Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject: Steam surpasses 30 million active user mark [29832] |
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Valve announces that Steam has
surpassed the 30 million account mark! Valve also revealed
that it has recorded a 178 percent growth in Steam user accounts over
the past 12 months. These users stay active, too, with over six million
of them accessing Steam each day. To meet this increased load Steam has
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Read more...
Source: GGMania headlines
GGMania.com - Daily Gaming and Tech news |
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psolord
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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Cool.
Go steam go. Still, upgrade that freagin connection already. It's not enough. I am downloading at 1.55MB from all filehosters, Youtube, AMD, Nvidia and still, around 300k most of the time from Steam, no matter what server I choose. |
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Tom
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| 2MB/s all the time here. |
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tride
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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1.5mb all the time here! In a fuckin east european country!  |
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Csimbi
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | enough bandwidth to transmit the Oxford English Dictionary 92.6 times per second |
We all know that said dictionary is pretty small. Games are reaching the 10GB mark. Said speed would be ok if you had 400k users. Do the math.
I would be really pissed if I would get anything less than 7MByte/sec on my 100MBit line...
I said at several occasions that their service sucks. Bandwidth is only a part of the problem. |
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Tom
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| Csimbi wrote: | | Quote: | | enough bandwidth to transmit the Oxford English Dictionary 92.6 times per second |
We all know that said dictionary is pretty small. Games are reaching the 10GB mark. Said speed would be ok if you had 400k users. Do the math.
I would be really pissed if I would get anything less than 7MByte/sec on my 100MBit line...
I said at several occasions that their service sucks. Bandwidth is only a part of the problem. |
Nice! |
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Donkeydannyuk
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:33 am Post subject: |
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Yea i love my Steam had for Few years now, On 50mbit Virgin & get 5megabyte a sec on downloads Me happy 
Just one thing Thier pricing on games sucks ..Can buy from play.com or game.uk for Less all the time and thats hardcopy with delivery. Digital should be cheaper with less overheads except Network costs!! still whatever..Have some cake man!!  |
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Renton
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| 2 mb/s here and I from Argentina, in South America. |
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Sabot
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Yeah i access steam each day and am one of those quoted 6 million! Except it sits on my taskbar and logs in automaticaly and that's about it! Last time i played something steam-connected was Warhammer about 2-3 months ago? Hell do they just count a 'connection' as a user?? Oh look user blah,blah has just booted up and connected to his account. That's 6 million and 1!!!!
Get a life........................................................................... |
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RayzorBlue
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I love Steam but the only time I buy anything on there is when its on sale, if I am paying £30 for a game I like to have a box.
I have a 10mbit line and get full speed most the time, generally only when a new release like L4D2 is out does it lag for me, that's in UK. |
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