And in Australia, this is a godsend. Take >100 games on steam multiplied by several GB each, and you have several months of downloading if it wasn't for unmetered content.
I got the CodeMasters pack the other week ($17.50 for 5 racing games). Those games were 40GB in downloads. I am on a 60GB/month quota (And this is split 50/50 into on-peak and off-peak, too) - As you can see, this is one of the many reasons people do it. It is also value add, most ISPs (in Australia) advertise their content servers being unmetered as a selling point. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > We do it for our customers (ISP) so we call provide it as free quota > (Australia uses a quota system for net acess). Running a local server > will increase the likely hood of your client using it for updates, but > doesn't guarantee it. To do that you need to use an ip filter like > steamwatch. However as already pointed out not every content server > has all content. > > -- > Matt Lyons > Media Group, Internode > 150 Grenfell St, Adelaide SA 5000 > E-mail: [email protected] > WWW: www.internode.on.net > "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In > practice there is." _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
