Steam features never fail to amaze me : steam

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 84 points 1 year ago

I mean, turning on Penis sounds pretty low-effort to me.

[-] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

[-] wax@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago

Perfect

[-] xep@fedia.io 40 points 1 year ago

"Ah, an appreciation post for the local transfer feature," I thought, as I continued reading to the last part of the sentence.

[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 27 points 1 year ago

"Coming Soon: Steam Dick! Stream along with millions of people! Available in vastly different colors! Service opens soon!"

[+] lud@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

is your other device connected via telegraph wire?

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

For me, it’s the same either way. I’m capped off at 120MB/sec whether LAN or internet!

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Same, I'm still too cheap to upgrade the LAN to 10 Gbit/s. I could theoretically get old stuff from work, but that's all 19 inch rack mountable and loud...

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

ur lan slow?

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lan are usually 1 gigabit. He must have a serious connection. It's more likely he has a slow hard drive on the host or stores the data on USB2.0 connected drive.

[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Same for me, LAN is 1Gb, my internet connection is 5Gb.

Of course none of the devices get more than 1Gb, but that means than LAN or Internet doesn't make a difference. Especially for Steam games that get downloaded from a very close CDN proxy (probably hosted by my own provider).

[-] Dfirebug@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Being someone with a bad internet, this is actually quite a useful feature. It saves me from either having to set up an smb/ftp share on a computer or backing up a game to a USB drive to restore it on the other computer if I don't want to wait 10 hours for any modern game to download.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I see the joke, but just wanted to say that this feature was way more of a hassle than anything. I guess for the intended purpose of saving bandwidth it's nice, but it was difficult to get it to even work (steam kept wanting to download from their own servers instead of the host computer) and when it finally did, it was painfully slow, just transferring the program data manually over the network was going faster.

[-] Ddinistrioll@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Obviously not dismissing your experience, just adding my own : I tried it recently on a big game that was installed on my SO desktop, and it worked great. Just had to activate the feature on both Steam instances, restart Steam, and then I enjoyed a superfast "download" speed, that was mainly bottlenecked by my drive speed and even sometimes by my computer's ethernet port limit!

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if I have something set up in steam that is bottlenecking, then. I use my home network to transfer files pretty frequently so I know that's not my issue. Oh well, I don't have limited bandwidth and my Internet is pretty decent so I don't really need it anyways. Glad it works for others though!

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

how did you get it to wörk?

[-] Strawberry 2 points 1 year ago

local transfer really helped me out the other day as i tried to have a lan party at my slow-internet friend's house