Keep STEAM usage as cheap as possible

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Hi Guys

I buy a game on steam every now and then and up to this point its been bliss because i had uncapped, i have since moved to a capped account.
What is the cheapest(bandwidth) way to download my games from STEAM can i buy local bandwidth for this task? Any ISP's offering free steam downloads with their prepaid accounts?
 
Webafrica offer Freezone for Steam but I dunno if it's available with prepaid. There are local steam servers so I'm sure you can dl using local only
 
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You could use WebAfrica's FreeZone service and download as much Steam content as you like.

All you would need to do is get a WA account, even if it's only a prepaid account, and visit THIS thread and read up on how to make sure that when downloading from steam that you ONLY download from the WA server/s using a WA account.

(If you somehow manage to download from elsewhere then the amount of bandwidth downloaded will be deducted from your cap.)

If you need help with anything then just ask in that thread mentioned above.
 
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WA doesn't have a cache of all the games, unfortunately. But they'll have anything released before a month ago, almost for certain.
 
Yes, that is sometimes the case sometimes. But rest assured that the content that's unavailable will get pushed onto the WA servers eventually.
 
CrAzYLeGs69 said:
You could use WebAfrica's FreeZone service and download as much Steam content as you like.

All you would need to do is get a WA account, even if it's only a prepaid account, and visit THIS thread and read up on how to make sure that when downloading from steam that you ONLY download from the WA server/s using a WA account.

(If you somehow manage to download from elsewhere then the amount of bandwidth downloaded will be deducted from your cap.)

If you need help with anything then just ask in that thread mentioned above.
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Thx eish thats alot to take in :( sounds easy enough but so much effort...
Wouldn't buying local bandwidth work out more or less the same? price wise if its only one game every now and again.
 
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You can update your steam through IS local only accounts aka openweb... it might seam a bit sluggish, but eventually it connects. As long as you just use this as a download source and then switch back to your normal account when you game it should save you a lot of bandwidth.
 
I use a 1Gb WA Prepaid account to grab content from the Freezone. Works very well for my
 
Price wise it wont be cheaper using prepaid BW from other ISPs as you would, for example, need to buy the amount of gigs required to download the entire game. When downloading with a 1Gig WA prepaid account that has FreeZone, you'll be able to download a 7Gig game from their Steam servers without using up any of your cap.

I suggest using the SteamWatch method. It works fine now after some changes that WA made to their Steam server.

Just download and install SW, go edit (with notepad) the SteamWatch .XML Settings file in the directory where you installed it by replacing all of the other server entries with the two WA Steam Server addresses.
You can download my Settings file and see how it's supposed to look like, although I would recommend adding the other WA Steam Server as well.

The addresses are in that other thread I mentioned and be sure to have the SteamWatch service running when downloading something from Steam.
 
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