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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

2.25 Terabytes per second for regular use? Thats actually not that bad considering its the entirety of steam. I kind of want to see those numbers for youtube.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that's a lot of tablepoons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's only like 9 Cups of Bandwidth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's hard to get steam into tablespoons. I was really impressed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, The double whammy of jokes here got me good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And that was just one copy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And it still gave me 800Mbps consistently right at launch time. Good servers.