Left 4 Dead Steam Dedicated Servers...WTF?

For those of you as addicted to Left 4 Dead on the PC as I am, you are probably having the same problem with Steam.

There are two choices a lobbly leader has in choosing servers. They can either choose Local or Dedicated. Local will host via lobby leader's connection. So unless the lobby leader can upload at least 3 mbs, this isn't a good idea.

The other option, Dedicated, is what most people are complaining about in the L4D community. Lag, Bugs, and all other sorts of connection problems persist.

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This is coming from Steam, who hosts all the dedicated servers for Counter-Strike, Half-Life, and Team Fortress multiplayer. In case you haven't noticed, Valve loves producing games that are multiplayer and co-operative based, so laggy servers should not be an issue...but it is. And no one knows why it's not fixed yet.

When I am trying to get my achievement for all expert levels beaten, the last thing I want to happen is being disconnected from the server on the last rescue mission. It's happened to me plenty of times; enough to the point of me being sick of even trying.

FIX YOUR SHIT STEAM.