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I setup the docker container “Wolf” on my gaming PC. It lets me stream from my desktop to my laptop. I’m lucky enough to have WiFi 6 with solid coverage. All that combined means I can run at near native quality and hardly any extra latency streaming from my desktop to my laptop/steamdeck. All without the normal streaming issues of making sure the PC is logged in and ready to start a stream.

I wouldn’t do it for competitive shooters, but for the games I play, it’s great. Keeps my laptop quiet, and my gaming PC being a space heater in another room.

Technically, Wolf uses Moonlight, but I just use that to start the Steam container, after that, I use Steam’s Remote Play directly, because I’ve had the best results with it.

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I tried that when I was in another city for a few months. It was all right, but I was on WiFi 5/AC and I live in a country where buildings have thick walls and sometimes there would be issues with streaming, even though I had gigabit on both sides and my desktop was/is on ethernet.

And I play strategy games, which from my understanding are a better fit for streaming than most single player genres.

I found myself playing older indie games that I missed (actually found a lot of cool stuff).

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I’m doing it all in-house. Once the internet gets involved, all bets are off. Even going from 2 connections in the same town on the same ISP with gigabit fiber I’ve gotten unreliable results.

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Oh OK! Yeah, local network is a whole different experience because you have a great degree of control.

Our internet infrastructure is probably in some ways better [*] than the US or Canada, based on my experiences living and travelling in North America, but it seems if you have WiFi involved anywhere in the chain, it’s difficult to get a good experience.

  • In the sense of a near universal median experience, we don’t have the high end stuff, the Verizon telecom service in some rural areas is impressive, but I will speculate the majority of households can get gigabit fiber for $15/month and mobile access is universal, cheap and competitive (but we don’t have 5G).
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