silly rabbit, you don't buy games on steam. you RENT them.

Ignore the anti-DRM zealots... they are quite strong on this site. Steam rocks, most of the time.

Silly rabbit yourself. You don't own any of the games you have bought. Ever. You've licensed the right to play them and that's it.
Sorry, had to fix that for you =)
Also, 3000 kb/s? You bastard, my connection is rather shitty in comparison. Tops at around 245 kb/s.
Mine maxes out at about 350 kb/s for Steam most of the time (the highest speed from any of the DD services I use. Only once has it gone higher and that was with Fallout 3 on the day of release where my connection maxed at over 1500 kb/s.

I meant in general. I can't download any faster than that over the Internet. Which is due to shitty coverage where I live. Which means that you are also a bastard, though only half as much as him.

Sorry. You are more than welcome to my shitty* internet connection**.
* In comparison to the fiber optics that pretty much everyone else has access to. But for which the phone companies refuse to provide here.
** You'll have to move to Japan though and pay for your own connection.

Hee, one of the things I'm looking forwards to when I get to the hotel in Japan is the supposedly gigabit fast fiber optical connection. Of course, with only a laptop it won't be much to exploit, but I think it will be quite enjoyable nonetheless.

HA. YOU LOSER. I has faster broadband than joo!
Probably not though. I merely have a 30M DSL, so that's a problem.

RAEG!
I CURSE MY 1.5MB SNAIL TRAIL!
You, mister Leung, is a triple bastard times ten!

I get 700-800kb/sec... are you guys using the download server closest to you? It's an option in the system settings.

Well, there's a content server for Steam in Hong Kong (always nice, unlike you Americans and your East/West/Central) and I get excellent speeds. Excellent is relative, though.

Here, fast DSL grows on trees. Cheaper, faster fiber is like oxygen (but their IPTV service doesn't have ESPN... so DSL it was). Suck on that.

The content server in Japan has never ever allowed me to connect to it. I am always connected to ones in either Malaysia or the US (the US ones being far faster), even though "Japan" is listed as my download location, I am still yet to ever connect to the content server based in Japan.
Valve did, once, promise to look into the cause of that, but they never did. Still, my current download speeds via Steam are far better than the usual 256 bytes per second I used to get from them (with the max being 50kb/s on a good day).

I suggest you try places closer to Japan, like Chengdu, Hong Kong, etc. Malaysia is too far, and even when I use it I get extremely slow speeds.

Just for the record, that's not the server I *choose* to connect to; that's the one the Steam client forces me to connect to -- although it does, admittedly, happen less often now. I also expect that setting the location to anywhere else in Asia won't have much affect; ultimately Steam will still try to connect to the US at the very least due to most games not really making it onto the Asian content servers (such as when the harddrives are full).

But you CAN choose where to connect it, in the Settings menu though. How do you know it forces you?