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Simbosan

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#70790 30-Oct-2010 23:11

Saturday night, 11pm. Yeah I know I should be out but meh!

I am downloading from Steam at > 2mb/s. I have never seen such speed, it is more than double the best I have ever got...

Did Orcon buy another hamster?

S

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#397926 31-Oct-2010 00:21

nope they just gave the one they have some Redbull and ecstasy so now it feels good about being over worked

Falconz

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#398333 1-Nov-2010 08:36

your probably downloading from affinity.net.nz's nz steam mirror. There are a few other nz steam servers on say slingshot but as far as I know they are all firewalled off to their customers only. Thankfully theres at least one nz server thats open.

YAY for net nutrality

Ragnor

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#398471 1-Nov-2010 12:09

It's not really a net neutrality issue imo, basically Xnet and Slingshot host Steam content mirrors so their customers can benefit from local downloads.. they could make then open to all NZ ip addresses if they wanted to but it would probably cost them $$ for more domestic bandwidth and who would pay for that?

Steam has it's own content servers and lots of Australian ISP's host open to everyone mirrors.

Interesting that affinity is hosting an mirror that is presumably available to all NZ ip addresses? Good for everyone (apart for them since they are paying for the bandwidth)!

Worth noting though not all files will be on all mirrors so it will still be a bit hit and miss until we get more open local mirrors.

Simbosan

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#398720 1-Nov-2010 19:01

Thats interesting, is that a new mirror? Like I say, never saw that kind of speed before ever

mgcarley

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#398746 1-Nov-2010 19:38

Ragnor: It's not really a net neutrality issue imo, basically Xnet and Slingshot host Steam content mirrors so their customers can benefit from local downloads.. they could make then open to all NZ ip addresses if they wanted to but it would probably cost them $$ for more domestic bandwidth and who would pay for that?

Peering at Citylink operated exchanges is really quite cheap - only a couple hundred dollars a month for a 1gbit/s port.

This, however, does not include traffic to/from Telecom and TelstraClear, who, sadly, own a fair chunk of the market.

SCM

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#398761 1-Nov-2010 20:02

heh thought i had miss read the title at first "Orcon Fast Today"

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Ragnor

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#398935 2-Nov-2010 01:51

mgcarley:
Ragnor: It's not really a net neutrality issue imo, basically Xnet and Slingshot host Steam content mirrors so their customers can benefit from local downloads.. they could make then open to all NZ ip addresses if they wanted to but it would probably cost them $$ for more domestic bandwidth and who would pay for that?

Peering at Citylink operated exchanges is really quite cheap - only a couple hundred dollars a month for a 1gbit/s port.

This, however, does not include traffic to/from Telecom and TelstraClear, who, sadly, own a fair chunk of the market.

.. and also all the international bandwidth from Valve/Steam to/from the content mirror for the actual content and updates etc.

mgcarley

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#399156 2-Nov-2010 15:23

Ragnor:
.. and also all the international bandwidth from Valve/Steam to/from the content mirror for the actual content and updates etc.

There would have to be a lot of terabytes for that to be financially crippling.

I'm pretty sure Steam would only send out what... about 2TB a month to each mirror (considering the requirements say that the hard drive size should be 2-4TB), so this would be still under $1,000 of bandwidth at the wholesale level.

2TB works out to about 300 games @ 6GB each, and with updates being "only" a few hundred megs each, that leaves a fairly wide margin for everything else.

Per the requirements, I suspect that the main reason that they would require at least 100mbit/s to the internet is so that users downloading off of the mirror don't experience crap speeds, and so that the mirror itself can perform it's updates quickly and efficiently.