Originally Posted By: Dignan
Can most CDNs even get stuff to you that fast?

Yes. The good CDNs are really fast. Individual connections may not hit 1Gbit all the time, as usually the bottleneck is the server with a 1Gbit NIC. The overall data speeds at the CDNs is pretty impressive. One I performed service in had 13GBit allocated just for the servers I worked on.

At a hotel in Palo Alto where I had 700mbit service, the CDN Steam uses was able to go at almost full speed.