Has anyone actually gotten local network file sharing to work for games download?

[Muffinman]

I have tried everything i can think of, my wifi is terrible so we hooked up an ethernet cable between our two laptops and got the download to start working for about a minute but for some reason it keeps defaulting back to the wifi. we dont have any access to an actual hardline internet connection so just ethernet between the two PC's is the best we can do. i have tried my best to follow every guide I can including reinstalling steam but all that did is delete every game on my account so im worse off than i started. literally any ideas help please

[Cathulhu]

Then it is a problem with your network.
Steam has no power to choose Wifi over ethernet. That is something your OS does.
Windows always prefers Ethernet over Wifi and will only switch if the Ethernet connection is lost for any reason.

[ReBoot]

Local transfers work over here just fine.

You are throwing 2 topics together here. What are you trying to troubleshoot, Steam local transfers, or your network topology?

[kingjames488]

so... you're trying to share internet access through a network?
why not just hook the other PC directly into the router?

if not look for a guide on sharing an internet connection through a LAN

if not just download the game on one computer then use steams feature to back up a game to a disk to back up the game to a network drive on your other PC

if not back it up to a USB drive and just carry it to your other PC lol

[aiusepsi]

I have got it to work, so it does work in at least some cases. But networking is basically black magic; there's so many ways stuff can go wrong in different setups that it's not surprising to me that it doesn't work in all cases.

Cathulhu님이 먼저 게시:

Steam has no power to choose Wifi over ethernet. That is something your OS does.

That isn't strictly true; when binding a socket, an application can choose what local IP address to bind[learn.microsoft.com] the socket to. So if you have multiple local IP addresses because you have multiple networks connected, an application can choose which to use.

[kingjames488]

can't you just turn off the WIFI on the laptop? it shouldn't default back to it if it's not functional...

last time I had a laptop there was literally a button on the keyboard to turn off the WIFI.