Offline/poor internet help please

[Bombay]

I live in a place where the internet is quite expensive but I go to college full time and can download most things quickly and easily on my laptop there. .

I know that steam needs to be online and needs to verify the game the first time it runs on some games. I have a hotspot that should solve that but it downloads at 50kb/s or less. I also have a router which can connect to my laptop and desktop but they won’t transfer data over it considering the router doesn't have internet.

Do I need to copy a 100gb game to my laptop just to download an update to then transfer the whole game to my desktop or is there an easier way? Is there a way to transfer a game/update using the tools at my disposal through steam or do i need to do that manually?

[rawWwRrr]

It's an odd question for a 14-year account, going to college. You should be well versed with how Steam functions by now, I would think.

Steam really needs a decent internet connection. Hotspots don't work well with Steam as they are meant for necessity which video games are not, with low bandwidth and data transfer.

You could use your laptop as a surrogate of sorts, taking to college to download games and then transferring them to the home computer. If the home PC needs to verify ownership, it'll need internet access for that. There's no way to circumvent it. The client on the PC will need to reach Steam's servers to check that the account has a valid license. Once ownership is verified, you could technically go offline again.

[nullable]

There is an expectation that you'll have internet. What ever the reason you don't it's a limitation you have to work around. Since you're downloading games and have internet sonetimes, why not run the game once when you have access to make sure it's sorted out?