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Steam Downloads on a 56k Modem

William Meidling
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So, I was talking with my girlfriend, and she told me to create an account on this forum because I thought of an odd idea. What would it be like to play Steam on a 56k modem? I know it would be difficult to do, but imagine a modern gaming rig with a 56k modem... XD
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Why? you can artificially limit your network speed if you really want to, it will just be painful.

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Australian here. I've done it. It sucks.
You can force steam to run in offline mode to play games that you already have installed but other than that you really must rely on a generous friend with faster internet to download games for you and bring it to your house on a USB drive or external HDD.

 

 

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I know it wouldn't be efficient. That's why I'm curious. I sat there wondering, "How long would it take to download Doom (2016), or Assassin's Creed III, or even just Garry's Mod?"

 

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I have a 56k modem, so I could theoretically find out, but I it’s not an experience I want to feel again. Especially not with 100+ MB steam software updates, 4 to 6 hours just to launch steam, no thank you.

 

The steam client has gotten quite bloated over the years.

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8 hours ago, William Meidling said:

I know it wouldn't be efficient. That's why I'm curious. I sat there wondering, "How long would it take to download Doom (2016), or Assassin's Creed III, or even just Garry's Mod?"

 

Thank you, Mr Unicorn.

You should be able to calculate estimates for that. 56kbps download speed, 60gb game file. If it's exactly 60 000 000 kb file, it would take 12 days 9h 36min.

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On 6/13/2020 at 1:21 PM, LogicalDrm said:

You should be able to calculate estimates for that. 56kbps download speed, 60gb game file. If it's exactly 60 000 000 kb file, it would take 12 days 9h 36min.

No? 56 kbps is 7 KB/s (at best) so 60 ,000,000/7 = 8,571,428 seconds or about 2381 hours or about 99 days 4 hours 57 minutes and 8 seconds at 7 KB/s/

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5 hours ago, Z3t487 said:

No? 56 kbps is 7 KB/s (at best) so 60 ,000,000/7 = 8,571,428 seconds or about 2381 hours or about 99 days 4 hours 57 minutes and 8 seconds at 7 KB/s/

Thank you for nitbyteing.

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