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    A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.

    How are your download speeds during the sale?

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    #1  Edited By Barrock

    Attempting to download Neverwinter Nights 2 for a while now. It's at 13%, 59 KB/s at the moment. :(

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    #2  Edited By Rhombus_Of_Terror

    The fastest I achieved was for BC2, 3.4mbs.

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    #3  Edited By pweidman

    I ordered  The Witcher  the other day($4.99!)through Steam, and it took about 5 hrs to DL.  But that was at about 500kb/sec.  NN2 for you could take days :p.
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    #4  Edited By CoheedFavorHouse

    i was downloading a bunch of games at once, and one of them was 940 BYTES/second. not Kb, or even Mb, but BYTES

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    #5  Edited By Jadeskye

    i've downloaded 250GB of games over the last 4 days...so pretty good! =D but i'm downloading from the london server so i guess you guys stateside have a different experience.

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    #6  Edited By Gargantuan

    A bit slower, not really noticeable. I've only downloaded two games though. (Darksiders and BF: Bad Company 2)

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    #7  Edited By Animasta

    NWN2 was acting up for some reason, but it got up to my normal speed eventually (1 mb/s)

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    #8  Edited By Marz

    i've been able to download at my maximum speed which is about 750kb/s

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    #9  Edited By Barrock

    Getting around 104 KB. If I switch to Houston it just totally stops. 

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