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Using Steam's interactive global traffic map is an easy way to find out which countries have the best broadband and which ISPs have the best speeds.
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Using Steam's interactive global traffic map is an easy way to find out which countries have the best broadband and which ISPs have the best speeds.
Wow, people play steam games in Yemen, that's surprising.
Wow, people play steam games in Yemen, that's surprising.
Zarathustra[H];1041374533 said:well, 125GB....
That's like 10 game downloads, isn't it?
Could probably be entirely accounted for by U.S. embassy staff alone
Zarathustra[H];1041374528 said:Also, map would be more useful if it were colored based on speeds, not on download totals.
Not that suprising. The US, Germany, and Russia have always been the big countries for PC gaming.
At the bottom of the map you can select "Average Download Rate" instead of "Total Bytes"
The total downloads isn't surprising, but after years of reading about how bad and slow broadband is in the US I didn't expect the average download rate to be higher than most European countries, as this shows.
Zarathustra[H];1041375313 said:That is very interesting.
There is a huge discrepancy between steam data and overall internet data.
The only reason for this I can think of is that Steam users somehow are a poor representation of the population as a whole. maybe they are younger and more urban than the average population, and thus more likely to be in the limited areas that offer high bandwidth.
I'm pretty sure that I skew the data when I download a game at 18.75MB (150mbit) per second
Gogo Falklands.
Thats going to be one kid, the only kid
USA! USA! USA!
Also, England and Canada need to up their game. The Russians consume more Steam bandwidth than both of those nations combined. Next thing you know, BT and Rogers are going to get annexed by Putin.
That's a great question. Valve has said recently that shady key resellers and their Russian VPN tricks are a problem.I wonder how much of Russia's bandwidth is from people buying gray market keys that require VPN to activate/download/play.
That's a great question. Valve has said recently that shady key resellers and their Russian VPN tricks are a problem.
Is there any other way to win? Brute force is what America does best, baby.Also, FWIW, we're only winning out over Canada and UK by brute force.
South Korea is always in the top in these lists and Scandinavia up there too but there it is USA and Russia? I don't think so, unless the servers are in those countries so they get better speeds that way.
Uh, yeah, so urban people with fast internet connections are less likely to be gamers? I doubt that.
One question I always have about South Korean internet speeds is that from what I see and hear a considerable amount of their PC gaming takes place at Internet Cafes, which if this is true that could twist the numbers as in those cases we are comparing home internet connections elsewhere against business grade connections in South Korea.