Steam downloads for capped users

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Andre

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*Please note: This is not a request for piracy*

After my laptop died some months ago, I've recently built a new gaming desktop PC, fired up Steam and was appalled by the size of the updates required. Probably around 50 Gigs or so of updates required but I'm on a 20Gig daily / Another 20Gig after midnight Telkom ADSL connection.

I'm not really in a position financially to move to a higher cap or uncapped monthly deal and fibre is unavailable where I live.

So my question is how do people deal with this? Some Googling suggests that I can use a backup from another Steam user that has the game I want and restore it to my system and play it so long as I've purchased the game for my account.

There are a few games that I would like to purchase as well that are in the 50Gig size range. Is there anyone in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town who I could visit with my USB 3 portable drive and do a backup from your Steam library to my drive? I could offer some sort of compensation such as a six pack of beers or something similar.

Here are the games I'm interested in:
Wolfenstein: Recent versions
Doom
Bioshock: The collection.

Updates for:
GTA V
The Witcher 3
DCS World
Assetto Corsa
Project Cars

Please let me know if you are able to assist.
 
Why not spend a little more than the price of a six-pack (R79) every month and get yourself a 100GB Fat Pipe account with Vox?
As the name suggests, you get 100GB every month and from 12am - 6am it's uncapped.

Check it out here.

;)
 
Andre said:
*Please note: This is not a request for piracy*

After my laptop died some months ago, I've recently built a new gaming desktop PC, fired up Steam and was appalled by the size of the updates required. Probably around 50 Gigs or so of updates required but I'm on a 20Gig daily / Another 20Gig after midnight Telkom ADSL connection.

I'm not really in a position financially to move to a higher cap or uncapped monthly deal and fibre is unavailable where I live.

So my question is how do people deal with this? Some Googling suggests that I can use a backup from another Steam user that has the game I want and restore it to my system and play it so long as I've purchased the game for my account.

There are a few games that I would like to purchase as well that are in the 50Gig size range. Is there anyone in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town who I could visit with my USB 3 portable drive and do a backup from your Steam library to my drive? I could offer some sort of compensation such as a six pack of beers or something similar.

Here are the games I'm interested in:
Wolfenstein: Recent versions
Doom
Bioshock: The collection.

Updates for:
GTA V
The Witcher 3
DCS World
Assetto Corsa
Project Cars

Please let me know if you are able to assist.
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How much is this 20Gb package
 
or get a Telkom sim, activate smart wireless prepaid and pay R50 for 500Gb.

But yes, any steam user with the same game can perform a backup, give it to you and you restore it. The client does the verification check, not the game files, perfectly legal.
 
Andre said:
*Please note: This is not a request for piracy*

After my laptop died some months ago, I've recently built a new gaming desktop PC, fired up Steam and was appalled by the size of the updates required. Probably around 50 Gigs or so of updates required but I'm on a 20Gig daily / Another 20Gig after midnight Telkom ADSL connection.

I'm not really in a position financially to move to a higher cap or uncapped monthly deal and fibre is unavailable where I live.

So my question is how do people deal with this? Some Googling suggests that I can use a backup from another Steam user that has the game I want and restore it to my system and play it so long as I've purchased the game for my account.

There are a few games that I would like to purchase as well that are in the 50Gig size range. Is there anyone in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town who I could visit with my USB 3 portable drive and do a backup from your Steam library to my drive? I could offer some sort of compensation such as a six pack of beers or something similar.

Here are the games I'm interested in:
Wolfenstein: Recent versions
Doom
Bioshock: The collection.

Updates for:
GTA V
The Witcher 3
DCS World
Assetto Corsa
Project Cars

Please let me know if you are able to assist.
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i have GTA V Steampowered i can give you a back up PM ME for details
 
Came here to mention the 500gb Telkom LTE also. best thing. i don't have ANY internet where i stay after moving. coming from having adsl at home. the 500gb has saved me. i schedule downloads and get some browsing time from 5am till 7am. for R50 a month its awesome.

500-GB
 
Ok, having read up on the packages you guys recommend it sounds like the Telkom R50 for 500 Gig deal would suit me best.

I should have a new Nokia 6 arriving tomorrow to replace my old Lumia 920. I take it I can tether the old Nokia (it has LTE) to my PC to use the Telkom deal?
 
Andre said:
Ok, having read up on the packages you guys recommend it sounds like the Telkom R50 for 500 Gig deal would suit me best.

I should have a new Nokia 6 arriving tomorrow to replace my old Lumia 920. I take it I can tether the old Nokia (it has LTE) to my PC to use the Telkom deal?
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Should work. But not LTE, Telkom runs on 2300 TDD (and I think now 1800).

Best you will get is 3G speed.
 
Andre said:
According to https://www.gsmarena.com/network-bands.php3
The Nokia 6 does 4G bands:
LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 28(700), 38(2600), 40(2300)
Would that give higher speed than the Lumia 920?
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After doing some other googling it does not seem like it. But I could be wrong. You could just get a prepaid sim with a small cap to test.
 
Andre said:
Even if I can only get 10Mbit/s it would be better than the 2Mbit I get at the moment. :)
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Regarding the Telkom SIM deal, R50 for 500Gig.
If you are roaming on MTN then you can't get it. You have to be connected directly to Telkom towers.
Check for a R (Roaming) on the signal bars when you have the sim in your phone.
 
Thanks for all the advice guys.

My new Nokia 6 arrived yesterday and I've just loaded the 500Gig to the phone.

Steam downloads are queued for tonight. :D
 
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