Multiplay Labs tech hits and tips from Multiplay erase this line if you want to turn the bubble off Caching Steam Downloads @ LAN’s with 30 comments This article has been superseded by LANcache – Dynamically Caching Game Installs at LAN’s using Nginx Gone are the days when users install most of their games from physical media such as CD’s / DVD’s instead they rely on high bandwidth internet connections and services such as EA’s Origin and Valve’s Steam. This causes issues for events which bring like minded gamers together at LAN events such as Multiplay’s Insomnia Gaming Festival , due to the massive amount of bandwidth required to support these services with users patching games and downloading new ones to play with their friends. With the release of Steam’s new Steampipe creating a local cache of steam download’s, so that game installs at these types of events is signifi...