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My son is trying to download a game on his PC.
Our internet connection is terrible, it takes about 5 days for 70gb.
Would it be possible to ask someone with a good connection to download the game on a CD or stick, and then copy to PC?
The game is Siege.
It's certainly possible, but as a rule software doesn't like to be copied obvious reasons, so you likely need some technical skill to do it.
Sometimes it's easier to bring Muhammad to the Mountain, when we were stuck with crappy home bandwidth I used to bring stuff to work to download on our fast connection (with permission of course).
It is a game to download straight from the web.
Internet work is crap too
There are quite a few games called 'Siege'. Not many with a 70gb download size.
Rainbow Six Siege? Would be quicker to buy a physical copy of the game on DVD.
Even if its available on retail dvd, 99% of the time the dvd just activates the download via the steam client etc. Remember dvd is only 4.7 gb or 9.4gb for dual sided, so it will need to be spread over multiple disc.
Tell you son to suck it up and wait 5 days.
True, most games seem to go into massive update downloads on first launch anyhow.
I've looked up the other 'Siege' I can remember, though, and the good news is that it is .0007 GB, rather than 70 GB.
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/siege-1i8
If your connection is so bad how does he plan in playing it? Pretty much the entire game barring the tutorial and a single play mode is multi player and even then I'm pretty sure you would need to be online anyway.
I'd be looking into that and if it's not looking good get a refund if he bought it on steam. Though at 18 he should be old enough to figure that out himself 😉
If your using steam, you could get someone else to download it, create a back up to USB, then install locally on your pc.
Steam will then detect game files and add to your library.
With steam you can just copy and paste the game files from the Steam > Apps > Common folder from one PC to another, then use varify local files in Steam and it will download anything that is missing.
He does complain that the game lag but overall he can play it. He has it on Xbox already.
A CD-ROM is 700MB, to put 70GB onto CD you'd need approximately 100 of them. (-: You'd need a USB pendrive, looks like 128GB sticks are coming in at about £20-£25 quid.
Mind you, by the time someone's ordered the pendrive, copied the game and posted it to you, you're not going to be far off your five days anyway.
Yes but that way, we can still use the internet. It is not blocked by one download.
He is using Steam, but still need to download the game.
Ah, this takes me back.
The days of waiting multiple days and leaving my PC on overnight for a couple of gig to download. And then sometimes you'd get packet loss and the file would corrupt - days wasted! Hilarious.
Luckily, today things have changed.
With Steam you can pause and resume the download at will - you could download overnight and through the day whilst you're at work, and pause the download in the evening so you can still use the internet. You just go to the downloads page and hit the big 'pause' button within Steam. It would probably add maybe half a day to the total time.
The other option if you have a laptop is to install Steam, sign in with your sons credentials and take it to somewhere with either free & fast wifi or to work. You can then copy+paste the game files from the Steam folder onto your PC (but you'll need a large enough USB stick to facilitate that, of course).
The third, and in my opinion most sensible option, is to get on the blower and ask why, in 2019, your ISP is giving you terrible internet that you're paying good money for. (Unless you're in some remote area of the world. Even then I know some people who live in villages out in the sticks with better internet than most of London). 70gb should be a trivial download for a modern connection.
It would be interesting to know your speed, what does this website tell you:
https://www.speedtest.net/
?
And yes I live in a rural area of France.
The internet is maxed out at 8mb.
We are supposed to get fiber but not just yet.
This is causing huge issues with my son who doesn't settle in France anyway.
Take the PC somewhere with a decent connection?
Yes, that is the plan.
Files can be copied over without a thumb drive, just share an appropriate folder and copy over the network.
8mb doesn't even sound remotely playable, expect lots of lag and latency issues before getting kicked for either the high ping or other players getting annoyed.
Indeed.
In terms of day to day internetting, it might be worth seeing if you could get a 4G dongle with a prepaid data only SIM - you might be lucky and get better 4G coverage.
This wont help you with your 70gb download, but will help you with the day-to-day internet and gaming ping issues. They're usually around 30gb a month capped - fine for browsing and gaming, not fine for large downloads and streaming Netflix.