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When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps
(reddthat.com)
From Steam's self-published stats.
Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.
Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.
And it still gave me 800Mbps consistently right at launch time. Good servers.
I wonder how much they paid for that launch bandwith.
Steam has a 30% cut, so, that pays
Because they use Akamai as a CDN.
Crys in low internet speed
Isn't Steam download peer to peer additionally from their servers?
Only on the local network.
Oh, interesting. I didn't know that. Is this automatic, or does it need to be configured somehow?
automatic for me. as long as u have 2 pc's with steam open on the same network, it'll do a local transfer