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submitted 1 year ago by scops@reddthat.com to c/games@lemmy.world

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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[-] Oha@feddit.de 53 points 1 year ago

Steam would profit from integrating something like the bittorrent protocol for downloads imo

[-] SpermGoobler@lemmy.blue 40 points 1 year ago

While true, us asymmetric broadband customers (where my upload is 1/10th my download) are grateful this is not the case:D

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

It could be opt-in with rewards for toggling it on.

[-] Oha@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

didnt think of that

[-] mates1500@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

it is already partially implemented for local network transfers.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 13 points 1 year ago

They do have such system, but only works for clients in the same lan.

[-] cumcum69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've often wondered if this works if you use a VPN or not?

[-] Obsession@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Off the top of my head, I know Windows Update and the Battle.net launcher both do this

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And on Windows it's so poorly implemented they had to reserve 20% of bandwidth for updates being uploaded and downloaded and you don't get a choice on that. So when Windows is sharing its updates your internet access suffers.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Jokes on windows, my WiFi is just funky enough that transfers between devices on LAN run like dogshit so it gives up before it even starts!

...I really need to invest the time into finding & implementing a better network solution

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Go with old 10BASE2 network topology. Nothing beats 1Mbps which might randomly stop working due to missing terminator somewhere in the network.

[-] SoaringDE@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Do you have any source or article about this? I'd love to hear more about this.

[-] CataclysmZA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Microsoft's implementation of the feature is called Windows Update Delivery Optimization.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-update-delivery-optimization-and-privacy-bf86a244-8f26-a3c7-a137-a43bfbe688e8

Here's a short optimisation guide: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-delivery-optimization.html

Fundamentally it's not like the Bittorrent protocol, even though there are similar behaviours and the result is the same. Microsoft retains the ability to stop the network from seeding updates and has ways of only targeting specific supported configurations to receive new updates.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Thank you and please not. I value my upload for myself. At best make it an opt-in!

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's typically a soft switch in the config for capable clients.

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