Everyone's Steam clients pickup the update at about the same time and start downloading it, so no doubt a lot of the Steam content servers will all get hammered again when the update comes out.
The alternative is that you could talk to Valve about hosting Content servers yourself. Carl wrote: > Hey just out of curiosity, will this be different from the scout update > in any way? When that came out, all the Atlanta servers went very > slowly (~30kB/s) which made updating very slow. Is it possible to > update from a different content server? > > Jason Ruymen wrote: > >> A required update for Team Fortress 2 is coming later today. No specific >> ETA yet, but it should be out in the next few hours. >> >> Jason >> >> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
