Steam Download Question...

[RyanRED]

Hi All,
Can I download games from steam from my (Telkom) local bandwidth. It says it is using local servers (Cape town).
I just don't want to waste all my international bandwidth when i can use the local.

Thanks.

 

[gerasmus]

Check with your ISP about the cap that you are allocated for local downloads.

I am on uncapped from Axxess, and with the recent Xmas holiday sale I bought just about every full price title for a song (Skyrim, Deus Ex Human Revolution, The Witcher, Batman Arkham City, to name but a few). In total I've had to download more than 180Gb, and that is just Steam all from locally hosted Internet Solutions.

 

[ld13]

Sort answer: No.

Any usage will first be used against your blended/international cap before switching to your local cap. There are ways around this if you know what you are doing of course.

 

[RyanRED]

Thank you for the feedback.

Agreed. I understand that the blended/international cap has to be exhausted before the local cap can actually be utilized. What I was getting at is, for instance, I have AOE3 complete downloading. I can stop the steam download, use my normal cap for international site downloads and then once capped, resume downloading games from steam. Honestly, that would be great because I never use my local bandwidth. Once capped, that's it, I usually just wait till the next month.

 

[ld13]

Your problem with 'resuming' a steam download while you are capped is that steam likes to have an active international connection while downloading. You would have to resort to a multiple account solution using eg. routesentry. In other words you would split your traffic so that international traffic goes via a cheap backup account (Afrihost) and all your local traffic runs via your capped telkom account.

Then there is also the old way I used to do it (not sure if this still works): At the end of the month I would cap my Telkom account. Then on the first day of the new month my capped session would still be active, allowing me to open a new session and then use routesetry to split my traffic over the old capped and new blended session. Worked like a freaking charm.

 

[Chevron]

Hi All,
Can I download games from steam from my (Telkom) local bandwidth. It says it is using local servers (Cape town).
I just don't want to waste all my international bandwidth when i can use the local.

Thanks.

Why not just test it out and see first? Not like it will cost you anything.

 

[medicnick83]

Remember the "region" option in Steam.

If you change it to Africa, MWEB, then it pulls from MWEB's servers.
I haven't looked in a while, but I know there is MWEB, WebAfrica servers, maybe there is a Telkom account.

Why not get a WebAfrica account, cheapo, then use the WAGE option to download the games via STEAM.