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Aaroona

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#29637 13-Jan-2009 23:02

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Well, im trying to downloading a couple of games; Namely CS: source and HL: Deathmatch.

The speeds are less than sh*t. The max speed im getting is 100kb.

usually i get around 700-800.
Has anyone noticed the speeds tonight? or is it just me?

Just to give you a little background, i'm using SlingShot (and everythings fine for Web surfing etc.)

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#189427 14-Jan-2009 08:16

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Depends if SS have an Akami cache they use or theyre just grabbing Steam data from whereever its available.... when I was on Xnet, the speeds were up and down like a yoyo.

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Aaroona

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#189579 14-Jan-2009 16:44

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xpd: Depends if SS have an Akami cache they use or theyre just grabbing Steam data from whereever its available.... when I was on Xnet, the speeds were up and down like a yoyo.

True.

Things are better now, i'm getting about 800kb/s steady downstream now, so its okay.

Im not sure about the cache thing.. They could very well have one for all i know.

oh well, everythings going good again. Just thought i'd ask.
Thanks for your reply :)

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