Hate to pop your bubble.

[hool10]

There will NOT be an update tonight even though those bandwith dips are showing. An official comment from Taylor Sherman from Valve

It warms my heart to see posts with math in them so I'll give you guys a few little bits of information.

The dips in the graph yesterday was us rolling out a new build of the ContentServer program, which mean each server had to restart, taking it offline for a minute or so. The new server program has a few minor little tweaks that may help boost the download rates some clients get. So, the lesson here is that status BW dips do not necessarily mean a Steam content update is coming! oh well.

Next -- though I applaud the math, it's misguided: when a 500Mbps ContentServer goes offline for ten minutes, that does not mean it's getting 500Mbps of new content for 10 minutes. Even if it was spending all that time getting content, it's not like we have a 500Mbps dedicated line from that server to our master server! A server in Europe may be able to push 500Mbps out to a few hundred clients in Europe, but the data rate between there and here may top out at a couple Mbps, or even less. So, even when the dips do correspond to an update, you can't really use the graph to figure out how big the coming update is. Oh well!

Full link is here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=331970&perpage=15&pagenumber=7

 

[Krynn72]

*pop*

*Poof*

 

[Sulkdodds]

Bubble = popped.

 

[Asknoone]

Bubble = popped.

Mines still losing air

 

[Hyperion2010]

note: he didnt actually say that there wasnt going to be an update....

 

[Sulkdodds]

I wasn't even aware of any update.

 

[Asknoone]

I feel abit left out of the loop here. What update are we chuntering on about?

Nooooo there goes my bubble

 

[OmegaX]

I guess DOD: Source

 

[OvA]

If Lost Coast isn't this week it will probably be next.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

I feel abit left out of the loop here. What update are we chuntering on about?

Nooooo there goes my bubble

hmm..i thought this new update was supposed to do with new CT model for CS:Source? and some other fixes and such.
oh well.

 

[bam23]

Good news is, DOD source is supposed to be released this month.

 

[auscrow]

so lost coast should be sooner

 

[BillyJoBob]

I wasn’t really expecting any update tonight so I think I’ll keep my bubble.