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Originally posted by traxor
Also, going to your friends to download it would make no difference, you wouldn't be able to play it at your house, you have to download it on your machine.

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As Phillip said you can easily download the updates on a friends computer and then use the back-up game files once it completes.

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Originally posted by traxor
It's not going to take six days, pause the update for Counter-Strike: Source, then download Half-Life 2, then when playing that, download Counter-Strike: Source files. Also, i'm sure you have other stuff to do while it's downloading.

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Steam pauses your downloads when you start a game; so you would have to begin the game, Alt-Tab and resume it and Tab back in.

I would suggest you install it and update it at someone else's house and up the back-up to put it on disc. It will even allow you to split the back-up into CD sized archives.

Although Steam only say you require an internet connection, when you buy Half-Life 2 from the shops they check that you have broadband (well, me and everyone I know were asked this). Obviously because someone else bought you it, they didn't know you had dial-up.