Steam library in a server?

[batatas]

I have already tried on a old pc making a server to store my steam library but the games take a lot of time to load, my question is if someone was able to somehow make the games load faster.

In my specific case the old pc i was using to store the games has only one 100 mb internet connector so i know i was limited in connection speed but even if you have for exemple two 1 gb connections and an ssd will it solve the problem or will it still take a lot of time to load the games?

I wanted to do this because my internet speed is really slow so it takes lot of time to update the games it can take up to 1 hour to download a 1 gb update and i dont want that so i have tried connect my steam account in the server and on my pc and some games updated and others dont but it kinda works, so i just need to know if there is a way to make the loadings faster because they take a lot of time thanks.

[Daniel644]

you can boost the load times by increasing the network connection speeds, but those speeds won't match that of an SSD in the local machine.

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, batatas said:

I wanted to do this because my internet speed is really slow so it takes lot of time to update the games it can take up to 1 hour to download a 1 gb update

Why do you want to move your steam library to a different computer (server). Your still limited by the internet connection to the house so no matter where you put it updating games will take the same amount of time.

 

Very rarely is it a good idea to not have your steam library local to the computer you are playing the game on, you can use another computer to backup steam games to if your limited on space so you can copy games back and forward as you want to play them. 

[batatas]

3 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Why do you want to move your steam library to a different computer (server). Your still limited by the internet connection to the house so no matter where you put it updating games will take the same amount of time.

 

Very rarely is it a good idea to not have your steam library local to the computer you are playing the game on, you can use another computer to backup steam games to if your limited on space so you can copy games back and forward as you want to play them. 

Because i will be making a server to store files and other stuff and my computer cant stay on all the time on the location he is so the idea was the server download the updates when the computer is off so when i turn my computer on if any game had an update it may be already done.

[batatas]

9 minutes ago, Daniel644 said:

you can boost the load times by increasing the network connection speeds, but those speeds won't match that of an SSD in the local machine.

Hum ok my idea is not to hit the loading speeds of an ssd i just need to hit the speed of a normal hdd that would be great for me

[leadeater]

Just now, batatas said:

Because i will be making a server to store files and other stuff and my computer cant stay on all the time on the location he is so the idea was the server download the updates when the computer is off so when i turn my computer on if any game had an update it may be already done.

Ok makes sense, then what I would do is just install your steam games on the server as well and sign in to steam when you shutdown your main computer. Then when you go to use your main computer check the server steam download history if anything has updated and if it has just copy the game folder from the server over top of the one on your desktop, steam is nice like that.

[Jonny]

its possible but updating of games is the tricky part.

 

Your'd want quad nics on both PCs so you can get 4gb/s between the two systems otherwise your be limited to the following speeds depending of the link speed

100mb/s = 10MB/s

1gb/s = 100-110MB/s (slower than most HDD nowa days)

4gb/s = 400-440MB/s (close to ssd speeds)

[Guest]

Get a dual or quad port gigabit nic for both your computer and server.

dual port

quad port (Ebay sorry, its cheaper to buy this stuff here)

 

Put linux on the server and set up a samba share. Also an ssd would be a good idea.