Is It Possibe To Use Friends Wifi From My House To Download?

[WolfLoverPro]

I dont know if this is possible but i would to ask. so my wifi has like 1mbps and i gotta download a 40gb game and that takes so long i cant even stand waiting for it but my friends wifi gets like 9mbps which to me is fast as ive never used a ifi faster than mine so is it possible say if i left my laptop at my friends on and somehow setup a thing to use his wifi at my house on desktop idk if thats possible or not but is there a way to like setup a connection or something like that or download games from my laptop and then it actually downloads them onto my desktop i was thinking like a remote pc but that dont use like a different wifi it would use the one at home but wouldn't a remote desktop be able to somehow make it use the wifi my laptop is on idk ??

[JCBiggs]

yeah.. plug in a usb disk on his pc and download it.. LOL..

 

unless hes relatively close and you can use a cantenna 

[JefferyD90]

4 minutes ago, WolfLoverPro said:

I dont know if this is possible but i would to ask. so my wifi has like 1mbps and i gotta download a 40gb game and that takes so long i cant even stand waiting for it but my friends wifi gets like 9mbps which to me is fast as ive never used a ifi faster than mine so is it possible say if i left my laptop at my friends on and somehow setup a thing to use his wifi at my house on desktop idk if thats possible or not but is there a way to like setup a connection or something like that or download games from my laptop and then it actually downloads them onto my desktop i was thinking like a remote pc but that dont use like a different wifi it would use the one at home but wouldn't a remote desktop be able to somehow make it use the wifi my laptop is on idk ??

Well the proper thing to do is fix your connection... but why couldn't you use someone else internet?  (Assuming you ask first).

[ProjectBox153]

If you're next-door neighbors, it may work, but won't be particularly fast. You could stretch an ethernet cable between the two houses, but that's only if you're next-door to each other. Just leave a laptop at his house to download the file and then get it back. 

[DocSwag]

 Maybe you could clone your desktops hard drive over to a new partition on your laptop, take your laptop to your friends house, download the game onto your cloned partition, and then go home and clone it to your desktop. That might work.

[Acolyte_of_PC]

Better to address the long term problem and just bump up your internet speeds by either upping your bill or offering to split it with who ever currently is paying so you all get get better speeds.

[WolfLoverPro]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

 Maybe you could clone your desktops hard drive over to a new partition on your laptop, take your laptop to your friends house, download the game onto your cloned partition, and then go home and clone it to your desktop. That might work.

yeah but the thing is that its on steam and on steam it makes me downlaod it in the enine so its annoying as i wish steam would like link it to all pcs even if it makes it double the size for me i wouldnt care

[WolfLoverPro]

1 minute ago, Acolyte_of_PC said:

Better to address the long term problem and just bump up your internet speeds by either upping your bill or offering to split it with who ever currently is paying so you all get get better speeds.

the best internet  we have is sky no joke thats all we have as the fastest the rest are so slow we live in a village and theres no internet apart from crappy one but sky is only one what really is the fastest out of all

[DocSwag]

2 minutes ago, WolfLoverPro said:

yeah but the thing is that its on steam and on steam it makes me downlaod it in the enine so its annoying as i wish steam would like link it to all pcs even if it makes it double the size for me i wouldnt care

I'm not sure what you mean by "enine."

 

I think that would work though. It would just take a while to clone the stuff but it should work nonetheless.

[Ezio Auditore]

Well, you could use 25km wifi linus showed in  a holy$h!t video. Although you could get a faster internet connection for its price

[WolfLoverPro]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

I'm not sure what you mean by "enine."

 

I think that would work though. It would just take a while to clone the stuff but it should work nonetheless.

oh sorry i mean steam engine what you use to download games on steam ;p but yeah you can only download them on there theres no like way to clone otherwize it wouldnt be steam

[DocSwag]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Why clone an entire partition when you can just move the game's folder?

Can you? Sometimes there seem to be folders all over the place in my experience. I'm not too familiar with software downloading so idk .

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, WolfLoverPro said:

oh sorry i mean steam engine what you use to download games on steam ;p but yeah you can only download them on there theres no like way to clone otherwize it wouldnt be steam

If you clone your whole hard drive though it should work. No reason why it wouldn't.

[JCBiggs]

lets not forget that optical media is also still a thing...

 

 

 

[Acolyte_of_PC]

12 minutes ago, WolfLoverPro said:

the best internet  we have is sky no joke thats all we have as the fastest the rest are so slow we live in a village and theres no internet apart from crappy one but sky is only one what really is the fastest out of all

ah man, well moving game folders by USB is not to hard. Just direct the download to your desktop so you know where it is, then load it on USB then offload it to desired location. 

[ProjectBox153]

1 hour ago, JCBiggs said:

lets not forget that optical media is also still a thing...

 

 

 

Ah, yeah, but does anyone have any discs that can hold 40GB worth of files, even if it is compressed? Although thinking of it now, you could split it up. 

[JCBiggs]

um... blue rays hold 50 gigs. in single layer form...

 

 

but what i actually meant, was to go by the damn blu ray instead of downloading it. 

 

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, JCBiggs said:

um... blue rays hold 50 gigs. in single layer form...

 

 

but what i actually meant, was to go by the damn blu ray instead of downloading it. 

 

Oh, didn't know about the limits of Blu-Ray. I don't use them. And yes, you could go and buy the game. 

[Dark]

Download the game to another system at his house and copy the game folder (located under the steamapps folder unless altered) to the system you want the game on.

 

I backup my steamapps folder and when I do a fresh OS install I simply copy the steamapps folder after installing steam, no need to download everything except updates/cloud data.

 

[Emmien]

3 hours ago, DocSwag said:

 Maybe you could clone your desktops hard drive over to a new partition on your laptop, take your laptop to your friends house, download the game onto your cloned partition, and then go home and clone it to your desktop. That might work.

What about cloning?

 

If it is Windows, it probably wouldn't work, because Windows would detect that it is a different device.

But you don't need to clone anything.

 

Just download "Steam" on your laptop, go to your friend's house and download it, then copy it to your main PC. I don't see how this wouldn't work, but I am not familiar with this "Steam" software or downloading client thing that you have.

[DocSwag]

3 hours ago, Emmien said:

What about cloning?

 

If it is Windows, it probably wouldn't work, because Windows would detect that it is a different device.

But you don't need to clone anything.

 

Just download "Steam" on your laptop, go to your friend's house and download it, then copy it to your main PC. I don't see how this wouldn't work, but I am not familiar with this "Steam" software or downloading client thing that you have.

Oh wait lol forgot about motherboard differences .

[RyanMacRocks]

Go to your friends house, download on your laptop, then bring your laptop back to your house and transfer the Steam files from Steam/SteamApps, transfer the .acf file and the game files in the "common" folder.

[ProjectBox153]

16 hours ago, Emmien said:

What about cloning?

 

If it is Windows, it probably wouldn't work, because Windows would detect that it is a different device.

But you don't need to clone anything.

 

Just download "Steam" on your laptop, go to your friend's house and download it, then copy it to your main PC. I don't see how this wouldn't work, but I am not familiar with this "Steam" software or downloading client thing that you have.

Steam? Steam is a game client that is very popular among gamers, for obvious reasons. Linus mentions it constantly.