HL RUINED THE INTERNET!!!

**joker_927** · September 13th, 2003, 01:35 PM

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.

**GroundZero3** · September 13th, 2003, 01:36 PM

yah that 400 meg upgrade is killer

i hate steam and there servers are getting hit hard

**joker_927** · September 13th, 2003, 01:44 PM

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

**phenious** · September 13th, 2003, 02:48 PM

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** · September 13th, 2003, 04:59 PM

My connection is operating as it does any other day.

**Siliconjunkie** · September 13th, 2003, 05:29 PM

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** · September 13th, 2003, 05:39 PM

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.

**GroundZero3** · September 13th, 2003, 06:09 PM

toad they are talking about steam

http://www.steampowered.com/

**joker_927** · September 13th, 2003, 11:12 PM

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** · September 13th, 2003, 11:14 PM

When Bittorrent comes in handy

**joker_927** · September 13th, 2003, 11:15 PM

how do "search" for files on bittorrent? Its a great program but no way to find files.

**Warthog** · September 13th, 2003, 11:17 PM

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*breaks out in song*

"Poo-Bah, Winnie the Poo-Bah, Lookin' for fun, chasin' some hunny bees, Poo-Bah I know he's out thaa, Rumblee tumblee, climin' a hunny tree, Fun never ends for us, we're so adventurous...."

Warthog

**Redwolf** · September 13th, 2003, 11:17 PM

You can search via torrent sites (the best method), your friend google, or via p2p networks like shareaza(a bit risky).

**Gunny_Snipes** · September 14th, 2003, 11:45 AM

bit toorent is pretty cool way to share...

Bit Torrent sites are the best annonymous way to obtain files. :P

**joker_927** · September 14th, 2003, 08:41 PM

can u pm me with links?

**muno** · September 15th, 2003, 01:56 AM

I tried to get the first hl demo (the 594mb package) from fileplanet but got so frustrated to their queuing system that I searchd for alternative locations.
Found a ftp server from which I got it at the maximum throughput, against the 3kbs I got from fileplanet server...
-M

**Nighthawk** · September 15th, 2003, 11:53 PM

I found that with Fileplanet it was WAY faster to wait an hour or two and then get it at 200k than it was to start immediately but get it at 10k

**joker_927** · September 16th, 2003, 12:00 AM

Yes, me 2 NightHawk. Fileshack is nice, but they have a 100k/s cap. pfft

**tobu** · September 16th, 2003, 03:28 AM

My isp has set up a server for 1.6 downloads. It is being hammered back into the ice age. It's g0t 256 people connected and another 92 in line. Mines been downlaoding for about 4 hours now. one house left!!!