This would be ok it a good portion of the content servers weren't
extremely poor either in terms of bandwidth or connectivity ( bad routing ).
As it is its the biggest failing of the steam system due to it being the
reason why kb and mb updates often take many hours to download.
With the old system manual ( ftp / http ) you could always pick a good
download site. As it stands with steam we have to either wait hours
( the record being 9 hours for no download so far ) or constantly
delete ClientRegistry.blob until it gets a server with acceptable
transfer rates.
The ability to select the content server and test the speed would
help remove this pain and I hope it can be considered. Doesn't
have to be default. An additional command line option for the
server side steam util and / or an advanced option for the client
one but it is something that it sorely needed.
Steve / K
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfred Reynolds"
> The Steam client currently auto-discovers your "region" based on a graph
> of content servers we have defined. There are no user configurable parts
> to this system.
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