If you download via steam it is possible to setup a steam-proxy in your house on something like a Raspberry PI so that it only needs to be downloaded once then it will be cached for anyone else in the house. It can cut your bandwidth usage a lot.
If you are interested I can probably post something over in on how to set it up. Its not as hard as you would think. Steam does also have a local library sharing thing but I think you have to be logged into the same account on different computers for it to download to the other (local) computer... Which is stupid. Ill have to look into that again.
We do use the family-sahre thingy. It does help. But with most modern games hitting 100gb of data PER GAME, it adds up quickly.
yeah, that is a good point. I know it would cost more but you could always have a dual-wan setup with a slower un-capped connection to download stuff overnight or something. It takes more effort to setup and might be annoying but it is what it is.
Just throwing out random ideas.
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