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I'm willing to bet their initial set of data from that form was accurate, but now it's probably a joke because people have been lying just to mess around. Besides some satellites very far from Earth and intentionally imposing a bandwidth threshold on oneself, who even has a 33.6 kbps connection these days?



They publish the results[0], which show 40% Unspecified, 24% >10M, and 19% >2M. That still leaves ~15% in <2M speeds.

[0]: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey


I stopped using steam because it seems to expect a broadband internet connection. It will often (sometimes without prompting) overwrite and re-download gigabytes of data


Recently it seems to be better about respecting download settings. The download size also seems to be an upper limit, for example Team Fortress 2 pretty much always showed up as a 10gb update download, but spent less than 5 minutes actually downloading files. Not sure if that estimation has been fixed recently, but it used to be the case.




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