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If Steam is the only way receive updates and map packs I will not be buying your game:mad:! You may be wondering why, it's all to do with Steams download speed of 256KB/s when my speed is 2Mb/s . Have contacted them on several occasions with NO answers. There a number of clan members with the same problem they get the same answers as me none.

Sorry to the developers who put in so much hard work in only to be let down by a third party.

mate with Torrents i reach 14-15mb/s but with steam at start when i moved into a new place got new router i had forgotten to open my ports and the speed was limited to 1.8-2.0 mb/sec after a while i realized the problem and it boosted the speed upto 10-14mb/sec might be a port or firewall problem you got there chief
 
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Notice anything funny about the ISP? Not bad for a cellphone right? Basically if any of you get killed by Ossius, you got killed by a guy on a hacked phone.
 
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In which case, try changing the download location and download speed in Steam - make sure that you select Cable/Fiber > 10M. Because you are in Australia you probably need to check some of the forums there for issues like this. If it is consistently at 256kB/s then your ISP is probably throttling Steam server traffic. There is a forum concerning Steam download servers here: [url]http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1230616[/URL] which might be useful to you, primarily for avoiding exceeding bandwidth caps, but might help you with your issue by forcing Steam to use local content servers.

First off: tried all Steam download locations & settings all the roughly same speeds.

Second: Will we be able to download from bigpond or some other ISP in Australia where I get my proper download speed? Then problem would be fixed.

Third: If you want me and all others with this problem to buy your game you should investigate the problem.

Froth:If the answer is no to these questions. Then it's no Red Orchestra 2 for me.
 
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If Steam is the only way receive updates and map packs I will not be buying your game:mad:! You may be wondering why, it's all to do with Steams download speed of 256KB/s when my speed is 2Mb/s . Have contacted them on several occasions with NO answers. There a number of clan members with the same problem they get the same answers as me none.

Sorry to the developers who put in so much hard work in only to be let down by a third party.

I get 1.8-2.5MB a second downloads. Something is wrong on your end.
 
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As I mentioned in my post, there are ways to force Steam to download from Australian content providers who are affiliated with the Australian providers, one way of which is to use the program(s) linked to in that thread. Whether or not that will improve your speed, I'm not sure. As Zips said, it's an ISP issue with some, or for all I know, all, Australian providers capping downloads from Steam servers. You'll have to do some investigating on the subject, it's worth asking your ISP and checking out the Whirlpool forums for example. You may find that it is the reverse of what I am suggesting, that you will have to block the Aussie download servers in order to force it to download from overseas, and get the speed that your connection should have.

To the best of my knowledge there won't be any opportunity to download the game or updates outside of Steam, so if you find that your ISP is inflexible on the matter, or that there isn't a way around it, it looks like you'll either have to take a pass, or wait a bit longer for the initial download (unless you get the DVD) and any updates.
 
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As I mentioned in my post, there are ways to force Steam to download from Australian content providers who are affiliated with the Australian providers, one way of which is to use the program(s) linked to in that thread. Whether or not that will improve your speed, I'm not sure. As Zips said, it's an ISP issue with some, or for all I know, all, Australian providers capping downloads from Steam servers. You'll have to do some investigating on the subject, it's worth asking your ISP and checking out the Whirlpool forums for example. You may find that it is the reverse of what I am suggesting, that you will have to block the Aussie download servers in order to force it to download from overseas, and get the speed that your connection should have.

To the best of my knowledge there won't be any opportunity to download the game or updates outside of Steam, so if you find that your ISP is inflexible on the matter, or that there isn't a way around it, it looks like you'll either have to take a pass, or wait a bit longer for the initial download (unless you get the DVD) and any updates.

I'd accept what you say except the most of my members get the downloads at the fast speeds it is only a few of us that have this problem. I'm talking with Bigpond (my ISP) about your clams of throttling by ISP they are looking in to it as I speak should know later to day. May have to take it up with the Department of Fair Trading.
 
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If your connection is 2 megabits, then 256kb/s download is around your limit, because there are 8 bits in a byte, therefore 2/8=0.25 megabytes/s. If you do in fact have a 2 megabyte connection then try changing download region and your bandwidth size in the settings.

You can test what speed your connection actually is at somewhere like speedtest.net

I thought this straight away.

If your internet provider says you have 10MB connection. Then when your actually downloading it will be 1MB per second. Its because bits and bytes are different.
 
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Ah ha, Australia. That's probably it then.

Wasn't there something about one of the providers there throttling Steam connections? Or they use special content servers in that area or something?

No their goverment forced packaged filtering software on ISP's until about 07', then started the legislation of making the software madatory. Which it now is. Which is why Australians have slow internet now because the filtering slows their nations internet speed by as much as 30%, at the cost of removing about 3000 porno sites.

Which is also why I love living in America, the country run on money! :D

We would NEVER censor our internet even if we knew for a fact it would save lives, let alone censor our internet and slow down one of the worlds biggest economies by about twenty percent just to get rid of porn people will find anyway....

Edit: Just from reading a wiki on the subject Australia seems like a nanny state.
 
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No their goverment forced packaged filtering software on ISP's until about 07', then started the legislation of making the software madatory. Which it now is.

That is just plain wrong, legislation to enact mandatory internet filtering has been on hold for a couple of years now and is not likely to progress any time soon. The current minority left wing government in Australia is already in so much trouble from its other policy catastrophies that it is unlikely to try and force this through parliament (especially as it wouldn't get the numbers to succeed as it's green coalition partners oppose it).
Come next election (going by opinion polling over the past 6 months+) the current government will be decimated and the conservatives (who oppose filtering) will be in power.


And for the OP I live about 400km's west of Geelong and have no problem getting full speed steam downloads, my isp is Internode.
 
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That is just plain wrong, legislation to enact mandatory internet filtering has been on hold for a couple of years now and is not likely to progress any time soon.

Well I shouldn't of considered wiki as a source to read up on a topic I heard years ago. :D Especially when it involves the internet.

But then why is your nation having alot of people with slower internet speed?(Honestly interested)

I've seen people on this forum talking of getting Australian servers up and running, ect... I've never had that problem in gaming. I get a 70-100ms ping on UK/Euro servers and 100-250ms on Russian servers most days. And on the steam topic again I have to say I do like it. Never had a problem with it, better then DRM/DMR/whatever its called.
 
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It's clear you don't understand how internet speeds translate, let me provide an example here:

When your ISP states to you that your internet speed is, lets say an average 5Mb/s (Typical speed in the UK), then that translates to 500kb/s.

You say you have 2Mb/s and you're getting 256kb/s downloads? That sounds about right to me, if there's any issue here its that your local exchange is either too far away for you to get decent internet or that your main line that provides your internet is damaged/really crap.

This issue is not steams fault, it's just how internet speeds naturally translate.

I get at home 8Mb/s, I download at around 700-800KB/s depending on how busy the server is, how big the download is and where I'm downloading from.

EDIT: The speed they give you, divide by 8 and thats your main download speed, so as I stated above:

5.0(Mb/s) / 8 = 625Kb/s

You state you should get around 2.5Mb/s then it calculates like so:

2.5(Mb/s) / 8 = 312Kb/s

Also pay attention to the way they display the "Mb":

Mb = Megabit (1,048,576 bits)
Kb = Kilobit (1024 bits)
KB = Kilobyte (128 Kilobits)
MB = Megabyte (1024 kilobytes)

http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/?input_amount=1&input_units=kilobits&notation=legacy
 
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