Steam - Valve's best move yet?
 

With the third phase of the preloading of Half-Life 2, many are finding that Valve Software's Steam Delivery System is proving a heck of a lot more reliable than it has done in the past. After being almost flamed out of existence a year ago, Steam lives on and is, apparently, holding up to the task of giving gamers what might just be the game of the year. What's going on?

http://www.bit-tech.net/column/25/

well, the increased the bandwith on most servers, that helped a lot

http://www.steampowered.com/status/content_servers.html

in europe, the NGZ-Server.de #2 was the best server around, bandwidth wise. And now, most of the valve content server have the same amount of bandwidth as the NGZ server :)

Valve #16 is the "fattest" of them all, and it's in the EU?