> "Those broadband users would only have to spend an hour or two downloading the few GB worth of preloaded data necessary for Half-Life 2, compared to practical

> "Those broadband users would only have to spend an hour or two downloading the few GB worth of preloaded data necessary for Half-Life 2, compared to practically an entire day needed for a dial-up download." more like a week or a month. 56k was extremely slow.