[mysticllama]

Technical Requirements

Before the live event, ensure that you have the following equipment and software:

A computer that supports streaming media files

PC & Mac Users: Download and install the latest version of Silverlight

DSL or a fast Internet connection to view the video session.

Will my ISDN 64k work?

[lfowles]

Heh. I submitted the Steam hardware survey again last week and one of the questions asked what my connection speed was. The fastest entry was "LAN>10M"

https://i.imgur.com/aU1oQQS.png

[zatkin]

I'm willing to bet their initial set of data from that form was accurate, but now it's probably a joke because people have been lying just to mess around. Besides some satellites very far from Earth and intentionally imposing a bandwidth threshold on oneself, who even has a 33.6 kbps connection these days?

[lfowles]

They publish the results[0], which show 40% Unspecified, 24% >10M, and 19% >2M. That still leaves ~15% in <2M speeds.

[0]: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

[swiley]

I stopped using steam because it seems to expect a broadband internet connection. It will often (sometimes without prompting) overwrite and re-download gigabytes of data

[lfowles]

Recently it seems to be better about respecting download settings. The download size also seems to be an upper limit, for example Team Fortress 2 pretty much always showed up as a 10gb update download, but spent less than 5 minutes actually downloading files. Not sure if that estimation has been fixed recently, but it used to be the case.

[toephu2]

Give them a break, even though it's Stanford, it still is an large academic institution, not a fast-paced San Francisco startup.