You guys are finding spare hours!?
That must be where all my hours I lose go…
You should really talk to someone if you’re losing hours of time.
You loose time? You dont know what you did that made all that time pass? Have you considered investing in a CO detector?
BWAAAAAH!
Is there no decent ISP where you live?
Back home a 40gb download was balls. 40 was almost my whole weekend at 1.2 down.
It doesn’t matter, I have a decent bandwidth and still end up losing interest while updating the OS and then the game I intend to play. I end up on TikTok or playing Switch.
Let’s consider a “decent” Internet speed of 200 mb/a. That’s 25 MB/s so it’d take 1,600 seconds to download 40,000 MB. That’s 26 minutes, so nearly half of your time is gone. Plus there is always time spent doing something like “installing”, checking the files, or whatever other stuff needs to be done besides just downloading the raw content.
Also, you don’t always get 100% of your advertised Internet speed 100% of the time.
Tbh I would not consider 200 decent. Gigabit minimum in 2023
Don’t pretend that any more than 1% of users would use anywhere near that much bandwidth. Even if you had five devices streaming 4K video all at once, you’d barely saturate a 200 Mb/s connection.
Large file transfers are the exception, not the norm. People don’t tend to regularly download or upload several gigabyte files on a daily basis. Maybe 2-3% of people who are either tech enthusiasts or graphics designers/artists/film makers do that but nobody else does, and even then 200-400 Mb/s will still be fine, nowhere near a hair-pullingly slow experience.
200Mb/s? What are you using, a 4G+ modem?
Average USA internet speed: 99.3 Mb/s
Average UK internet speed: 50.4 Mb/s
Average EU internet speed: 103.3 Mb/s
Average Japan internet speed: 42.8 Mb/s
Average South Korea internet speed: 110.6 Mb/s
Average Canada internet speed: 99.8 Mb/s
200 Mb/s is far above the average in any country on the planet.
In those countries and the EU in general, sure, but not every country
Your general point still stands, mind you, I was just curious about it and figured others might like the info too 😉
Quite shocked that Sweden doesn’t rank any higher though. They have or used to have the second most total fiberoptic bandwith in the world after the US which has roughly 30 times the population spread out on 22 times the area…
I guess I should’ve considered that places that are 100% city would have better averages than 200
Romania, Denmark and Thailand are far from 100% city though 😄 I’m not sure about the ratios in the other two, but here in Denmark, there’s a LOT more farmland, forest and smaller towns by area than cities…
Until just a year or two ago a 40gb update would take as much as 3 or 4 days to download and it would take up almost all of my data. Even most of America still has shitty internet.
Sea of Thieves be like
I recently moved to a place with fiber and paid out the ass for gigabit. I just got a new game on Steam that was 130GB, and it downloaded in about 30-35 minutes. Insanity.
paid out the ass for gigabit
That’s an odd payment method tbh. Fiber isn’t available in my area yet so that may be the reason for the difference, but my isp just subtracts money from my bank account! There’s little to no ass involvement at all!
You’re lucky. The rest of us gotta hussle for that G.
Same! I pay nearly double what I was paying for 100mbps but it’s worth it. As soon as the service was enabled in my building I signed up straight away. In the same place 3 years ago I was only getting 14mbps as my only option!
Yeah fiber so so good, I pay like $22 each month for 500 mbps. It’s a bit expensive so I don’t dare go for full gig
I once had a full gig fiber connection for free in my student apartment, it was glorious. Before that I had like 50 mbps so it’s hard to go back to that after the full gig
$22 has to be bundled with something like phone right? $22 for 500 is crazy cheap.
It’s cheap? Well call me ignorant or uninformed then.
But no it’s just the internet plan with a discount of $11 per month because my apartment complex has some deal with the internet provider.
Lol. My apartment has a “deal” with our internet provider. A combo wifi/switch/modem is provided with the apartment and I have to pay an extra $15 a month.
What a deal!
Grand total is only $165US a month for unlimited 1GB down and something terrible up
Well I guess it depends on your Country/State, the cheapest fiber in my area is $50 for 500mbps
On steam if you go into offline mode, then restart the client you can start a game without updating.
You can also set specific games to not update automatically.
unless this changed in the last 2 years, steam detects if a game has an “update pending” so regardless if you go offline, if it detected there was an update it prevents the game from launching. I tried to get around my parents crap download with that trick and it failed.
Last week, simply restarting (exiting and opening) the client got around that.
Which is stupid! I want to play.
Well my Internet connection makes it a 3 Minute wait for 40 gigs.
But steam should stop the Update if I want to play
There are multiple settings for that.
edit: I just attempted this again on my laptop, they have slightly fixed the issue. If an update is queued when you’re online you can remove it from the queue and then go offline and you can play it again. However if you are online you still need to update in order to play the game. This is much better than what it used to be, which was if it detected that you need an update even if you canceled the update and went offline it would say update required.
old post: If you could point me to these settings that you indicate it would be much appreciated,
Please be aware that if the setting your indicating is the allow background updates or the prevent auto updates. While that will make it so the game will not update automatically it will still register the game as requiring update which means if you go offline it won’t let you play the game until the update has been done.
I’m going to go test it again because it’s been a while since I’ve tried update in a few minutes
it will still register the game as requiring update which means if you go offline it won’t let you play the game until the update has been done.
Didn’t know that. Yup, that’s bad.
A workaround you can do is, before launching steam disconnect from the internet, then launch steam, when it launches it will say no connection and give an option to launch in offline mode, once offline mode is launched you can turn your internet back on. Just keep in mind steam also has to refresh your games every once and awhile as well so you have to go online at /some/ point or it won’t let you play the game offline anymore. Steam is super annoying in that matter.
You can usually go launch with the games executable, even if it’s already started updating!
As a Gameboy Color user, I am unfamiliar.
What, no Atari Lynx?
We’re a Colecovision family.
When you’re already losing interest in gaming, there’s nothing worse than having to sit through long updates because you haven’t turned on your machine for a while.
Disable automatic downloads if it isn’t a multiplayer game, and if it is get a singleplayer plan b game (make sure to allow downloads in the background if on steam that way the other game updates while you play)
Man I haven’t had slow internet in so long I forgot people still struggle like this. My heart goes out to you peeps.
Thank you.
-Sent from my desktop tethered to a Boost Mobile-network powered shitty old phone hotspot
This is why I leave my shit on. So it updates when I’m not using it, so I don’t have to wait when I am.
Don’t forget the changelog that reads something like:
- Fixed a number of bugs
Which, judging from the update size, makes you think the bugs are misnamed HD textures.
That’s why I like old offline games like Skyrim, the only updates I get are mods and when I want. Or I can just turn updates off.
old offline games like Skyrim
Oof! You’re technically right since it’s from 2011 and the “forced online single player games” scourge is endemic by now, but that made me feel ancient 😬😂
Oh wow, I didn’t even consider checking for updates while I’m working from home.
Yeah Steam Deck is cool but…god DAMN the update frequency.
