Well after nearly two days to dismal failure Im now downloading
steam cached install from fileshack which is maxing out my line
at 250Kb/s instead of the 400b/s / constant disconnects that
is steam.
Conclusion for those of you that havent managed to get it via
steam give up and download it like a normal demo / game.
Both Fileshack and Fileplanet have it and Im sure more will
follow. Now just need them to release cached versions of all
the other mods so I can finally test our servers.
I just hope valve learn from this and either make considerable
improvements or ditch steam for hl2. I'd say you need 1000
times the bandwidth if not more than you currently have. A
client which doesnt constantly disconnect, continues where it
did aka like a web browser and gives decent feedback total
size transfer rate ( without the sill monitor window ) and
time remaining so we know if we can go on holiday while
it download :P
Steve / K
P.S. Downloaded 20% while typing this :)
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