Can Steam handle HL2 release as is?

Plopfish

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*note the huge difference (8 fold) of bit to byte conversions

Current Steam bandwith available (rounded up) is 1500mbps
1500/8 = 187.5 MBs
avg acceptable DL speed is 100KBs (or 0.1 MBs , 10 sec per MB)

Thus, 187.5MBs / 0.1 MBs = 1875

1875 is the amount of users the bandwith can handle if they are all downloading at 100KBs (rather slow... for a 600+mb DL) wich is an extremely small amount. I think the demand on a Sept 30th release would be at least 8-16 thousand users.

Correct my math, I am thinking I messed uo and it is really 18,750 people they are able to host, but im not sure.
 
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