I think the original poster should just PM one of the people who have offered to host the file, and just give them the file.
heck, another HL2 site might even host it....The torrent method is going to take too long if he has a max of 8kb upload.
Exactly.
Valve could make a map that has lots of objects that can be moved/interacted, or it can do about the opposite like Far Cry and make basically nothing interactable in MP.
That is the one I am most anxious about.
I hope it does not end up being like Far Cry where physics was all but disabled for most everything in multiplayer.