HL RUINED THE INTERNET!!!

[joker_927]

My internet has been horible this morning. VERY slow. It doesn't really seem like it's my line either. I did all the normal stuff of resettin the moden, reboting. Nothing sems to help, web site takes forever to appear.

Well, I happen to swing by Filplanet, and on their front page was a new HL update. "Uh oh" that means EVERYBODY is on trying to get it. Then I realized it was a HL/CS update! Everybody and a 1/2 is out there now! Then I realized it was a 374MB file!!!! Now people are sitting there downlaoding for HOURS!

I looked at the lines to download it and the average wait was somewhere around 214 minutes. 197 minute wait time at fileshack.

At gamershell all 7 international 100MBit piplines were full.

No wonder my internet is slow. THE WHOLE WORLD IS SLOW! With all the people tying to get the newest hal, servers are being tested to their max capacity. It's a wonder the internet even works.

GEEZ! HL really is like nothing else.

yah that 400 meg upgrade is killer

i hate steam and there servers are getting hit hard

[joker_927]

I've got 34% of it.... going at 140k/s I found some Swedish server.

[phenious]

cant be any worse than when they started servering a free full demo of Planet Slide with a 7 day key... 1.4Gb download... took 3 hours or so :P

-: phenious :-

[Renesis]

My connection is operating as it does any other day.

[Siliconjunkie]

RedHat kills more internet than HL ever thought about. 100's of mirrors and all of them full up for weeks when there is a new release.

[Toadman]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. The HL/CS update is only 592k and just a quickie patch. The fileplanet file is a complete install of both games. Why they posted that I have no idea.

toad they are talking about steam

http://www.steampowered.com/

[joker_927]

There is a tiny 592K download, but once u install that you have to download almost 400mb if u want HL and CS installed. Fileplanet has it in one chuink

[Redwolf]

When Bittorrent comes in handy