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Noob Question. How does using the local SA Steam servers affect the download speed?

I'm getting The Witcher at 40KB/s from the WA steam servers. If I turned of steamwatch I would probably get the same speeds from int.
 
I'm getting The Witcher at 40KB/s from the WA steam servers. If I turned of steamwatch I would probably get the same speeds from int.

Ok, I'm using Steam as is, in that I never set any regions or anything or messed with those settings, and I downloaded Max Payne 2 last night at between 50 and 70kbs. Peak Download rate was 646 kb/s , although I doubt it.
So I'm no better off on local then.
 
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Ok, I'm using Steam as is, in that I never set any regions or anything or messed with those settings, and I downloaded Max Payne 2 last night at between 50 and 70kbs. Peak Download rate was 646 kb/s , although I doubt it.
So I'm no better off on local then.

I'm on 384k :p
 
Well I'm only on 512 so I'm not exactly leaps and bounds ahead of you.

/curses Waco and his 10 meg line that actually works.
 
Ok, I'm using Steam as is, in that I never set any regions or anything or messed with those settings, and I downloaded Max Payne 2 last night at between 50 and 70kbs. Peak Download rate was 646 kb/s , although I doubt it.
So I'm no better off on local then.

Wouldn't bother trusting what Steam tells you. The rate it reports seems to be more along the lines of the amount of data installed after being unpacked (unzipped ... whatever they want to call it) - I had a peak download rate of 754kb/s once ... which is patently impossible on a 4meg line.

Try watching a download for a few minutes once - you'll see total downloaded at the top of the screen can sometimes show quite a margin of difference when compared to the install in the actual dl progress box for whichever game you're downloading. I've also noticed that Steam gives install sizes, and not the actual download size of a particular game - so if it tells you 9 gigs, the download itself will probably be quite a bit less.
 
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