Lancache + steamPrefill gets me over 20x ISP speeds
Getting steam updates over 20x of my ISP download speed feels awesome and I think is an actual valid use for the homelab for one.
- First picture is the SSD in a random cassette looking USB 3.0 enclosure attached to the back of my m920q
- Second picture is Steam getting an update at ~673 Mbps.
- Third picture is Beszel showing traffic between the server and my PC.
- Fourth pic is ISP speedtest on a 50/50 Mbps connection.
For those who don't know LanCache is a software for caching network traffic and then serving the cached data if you request the same data again.
SteamPrefill is an additional piece of software which logs into your steam account and pretends to download games and updates so that your steam client then gets the cached content. Because my internet is so slow steamprefill absolutely choked my internet so I made myself a ratelimited fork of it with a few options.
I absolutely could pay for a much much faster internet (and I previously did, this is my voluntary project) but why pay when I can solve the situation with a stack of cool existing hardware+software.
