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BitRapt0r

Is it possible to stream Steam games over two different networks?

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Hello, first of all, sorry if this is a stupid question, I’m a little behind in the game.

Basically, here’s my situation: thanks to the Steam Summer sale I have lots of new games I want to play, but I won’t get a chance to play them all before I have to move back into college. I leave my PC at home with all my games on it, and I bring my Macbook to school. Is there any way I can stream the games from my PC at home to my Mac at school? I’ve seen the Steam Link device but it seems you can only use that if they’re both on the same network; same with Steam In-Home Streaming.

Any and all help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Posted Jul 31, 2019, 3:49 PM UTC

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lefboop•

They recently launched Steam link anywhere. You don't need extra hardware. Just have steam installed on both PCs.

Pretty sure it's on beta right now, so you have to enable the steam client beta on both PCs for it to work.

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ARTIFICIAL_SAPIENCEhttps://s.team/p/cvdv-n•

The lag would be pretty intolerable. You can do it with a VPN, but it's unlikely to be worth doing.

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BitRapt0rOP•

That’s what I was afraid of. I wasn’t sure if there was any dedicated “I’m not on the same network as my PC” software/hardware like there’s Steam Link and In-Home Streaming.

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jasmin_shah•

Try Parcec

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The_Markie23•

You do not need any hardware. Right now if you have Steam on two computers (and both opting into beta), you can just stream between them as you like. I recommend a network at least 5 - 10mb/s to get playable visuals and input.

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