Download-speeds Memes

You drop $200+ on a blazing fast Gen 5 NVMe SSD with sequential reads that could download the entire Library of Congress in seconds, and your games boot in literally 0.3 seconds. You feel like a tech god. Then Steam's download servers decide to route your 150GB game update through a potato server in a region that's apparently experiencing a localized apocalypse. Your fancy SSD sits there twiddling its thumbs at 0.01% utilization while you're downloading at speeds that would make dial-up feel smug. The bottleneck isn't your hardware—it's the infrastructure between you and the game you desperately want to play. Classic case of optimizing the wrong part of the pipeline. Your storage is ready to party at 14000 MB/s, but the network is showing up with 12 Mbps and a "sorry, best I can do" shrug.