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Half-Life 2 on Dial-up

post #1 of 5
11/18/05 at 8:37pm
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My brother is getting a new and offensively expensive PC soon, and I was thinking about getting him Half-Life 2 for Christmas. Unfortunately, he lives in a place with absolutely no access to cable or DSL. I would buy him the retail box, but I believe you still have to register your copy and update it through steam. Has anyone done this over dial-up? Will it take a reasonable amount of time, or will the download time have to be displayed in scientific notation? The fastest his connection runs is about 22 kbps. I haven't been able to find anything dealing with slow internet connections at the Valve websites. Any help would be appreciated...
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post #2 of 5
11/18/05 at 8:40pm
When I first got HL2 I had dial up and it wasnt too bad. All it does is confirm your registration number and then unlocks it for you. However recently Valve has put out an update to steam so if it makes you update steam first you could be looking at a pretty hefty amount of time.
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post #3 of 5
11/18/05 at 8:43pm
Should only take a week or so...

I installed HL2 on a friends computer who does not have broadband. I had to take his box to my house, get Steam updated and sated through my broadband connection, lock it into "Offline" mode, and then bring it back to him. That's the best course.

If moving the machine to a broadband access point simply isn't an option you can attempt to register and update through the dial-up connection... but it will be a looooooooong process. Not reasonable at all. Good luck.

EDIT: Let me say he got the "Collector's Edition", or whatever it's called... the boxed version that included HL1 and CS. Downloading the CS updates may have been part of the problem.
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post #4 of 5
11/19/05 at 4:51am
Yes make sure you DL Counterstrike if it asks you. Then take it off after installation. I just bought Half Life 2 a few weeks ago on clearance for 5 dollars. Dialup updating only took me like 2 days ( probably about 4 or 5 hrs max overall).

Should work like a charm.
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post #5 of 5
11/22/05 at 12:21pm
using dialup, trying to download anything big from valve will prob take 20+ hours.
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