16 replies to this topic

[The Amazing Atomic Spaniel]

My stone-age domestic broadband will take several days to d/l the next patch (6GB, apparently), but I have a much better connection at work.

Is there a way to d/l the patch onto a USB drive at work and then instal it on my home PC from the drive?

[thehiddenedge]

Solution: get a 5000 ft Ethernet cable. Connect one end to your office router at work. Plug the other end into your home PC.


Problem solved.

[GreyNovember]

Yes.

Take all the updated files once the patch is done at work.

Jam it into a hard drive.

Bring it home and overwrite everything in your game directory.

[sycocys]

Just move into your work. You don't want to play MWo on your snail connection at home anyhow.

[Triordinant]

sycocys, on 08 March 2016 - 03:50 AM, said:

Just move into your work. You don't want to play MWo on your snail connection at home anyhow.

Yes! After hours mayhem! 20 years ago I used to work for a tech firm that pretty much had the equivalent of its own phone company on site and we used to play Doom 2 multiplayer co-op and PvP all night.

[Almond Brown]

I would ask Support as this might be a great method for others as well that do not have heavy duty Inet connections.

[CDLord HHGD]

I'm glad I have Steam now and it takes care of the patching for me.

Currently I am unable to patch Star Citizen, it dies after about 15m and my interwebs are down until I reboot my modem. Sucks. I have a 40Mb connection too.

[Kodyn]

I thought I was bad for playing on a potato, but I don't know why anyone would try playing anything online with crap internet..


This is not the first large MWO patch, what did you do all the other times they had 5-6 GB patches?

[Monkey Lover]

GreyNovember, on 08 March 2016 - 03:19 AM, said:

Yes.

Take all the updated files once the patch is done at work.

Jam it into a hard drive.

Bring it home and overwrite everything in your game directory.

Sounds like plan, then maybe run the repair tool to make sure you didnt forget any files.

[LordNothing]

they seemed to have deleted the last thread on this subject. i called them out for using up a huge chunk of my transfer cap. i guess they didnt like that. delete!

they would rather flat out brush it under the rug rather than address customer concerns, and thats a horrible buisness practice.

[The Amazing Atomic Spaniel]

Kodyn, on 08 March 2016 - 11:28 AM, said:

I thought I was bad for playing on a potato, but I don't know why anyone would try playing anything online with crap internet..


This is not the first large MWO patch, what did you do all the other times they had 5-6 GB patches?

Ping's fine, it's the bandwidth that's limited. Worst case is just to leave it downloading for a couple of days. A trade off for living in rural Somerset

Edited by The Amazing Atomic Spaniel, 09 March 2016 - 12:03 AM.

[Raubwurst]

Like stated above it should work if you download the whole game on your workplace and copy the whole game directory onto the usb drive (it just the patch, but everything). At home you replace your game directory with the files from your usb drive. You really should run the repair tool after this.

Maybe save a back up of your original files, just in case something is messed up enough, that you need to roll back and make the update again through the original way.

[Impyrium]

The way I'd do it is to have an external hard drive, and Steam installed somehow at work. I'd download MW:O fully onto said external harddrive at work, and then either directly copy/paste the files into my home installation or use Steam's backup function to create a backup, then restore from the backup when I got home.

You're probably going to run into a little trouble though, Steam is incredibly bad for tinkering with its game files.

[The Amazing Atomic Spaniel]

Raubwurst, on 09 March 2016 - 01:57 AM, said:

Like stated above it should work if you download the whole game on your workplace and copy the whole game directory onto the usb drive (it just the patch, but everything). At home you replace your game directory with the files from your usb drive. You really should run the repair tool after this.

Maybe save a back up of your original files, just in case something is messed up enough, that you need to roll back and make the update again through the original way.

I'll try this. Will post up next week how it went.

[Uncl Munkeh]

thehiddenedge, on 08 March 2016 - 03:11 AM, said:

Solution: get a 5000 ft Ethernet cable. Connect one end to your office router at work. Plug the other end into your home PC.


Problem solved.

Solution fail.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

sycocys, on 08 March 2016 - 03:50 AM, said:

Just move into your work. You don't want to play MWo on your snail connection at home anyhow.

Wait... there are people who DON'T practically live in the office?

[MeiSooHaityu]

My gosh! A 6GB patch is going to take forever over my internet connection.

Here is my setup...


Does anyone have any ideas to improve my connection speed?