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=Technical Notes=
=Technical Notes=


Steam used to have a huge amount of servers (some from Limelight CDN) located around the world and older versions of the software used an inefficient method to connect users to the servers. Steam has made a big improvement on the game delivery system by using 3 different high performing CDN companies, Akamai, Highwinds and Level 3.
Steam used to have a huge amount of servers (some from Limelight CDN) located around the world and older versions of the software used an inefficient method to connect users to the servers. Steam has made a big improvement on the game delivery system by using 3 different high performing CDN companies: Akamai, Highwinds and Level 3.


*media.steampowered.com = Akamai
*media.steampowered.com = Akamai
*media2.steampowered.com = Highwinds
*media2.steampowered.com = Highwinds
*media3.steampowered.com = Level 3
*media3.steampowered.com = Level 3