Really recommend at this price, along with the Steam Controller this has completely changed how I play PC games.

Expecting the usual flurry of "waste of money, lag, doesn't work" etc comments. Problem is that there's no guarantee how well the Steam Link will run with your setup. It can be a little glitchy at times and may not necessarily run flawlessly out the box. I had to do a lot of tweaking to get it running how I want it to - it's perfect now I've fixed it, but admittedly it was incredibly frustrating at first.

It's well worth a punt at £16 though. Heat :smiley:

Just because your broadband is running at 100Mbps doesn't mean your wifi is running at that speed.

Friendly heads up - if you have a laptop with HDMI and internet you can do exactly what the steam link does just by installing steam and streaming from your gaming machine.

Have you tried home plugs? My router and steam link are both in the front room but my gaming pc is in the office on the other side of the house. Works perfectly without lag as long as your home doesn't have ancient electrical wiring.

I use these:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00X59GJGC/

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I got one of these at Christmas when a similar deal was on. As a bit of a current gen PC noob, I found it a bit of a faff to get rid of the lag, pair various controllers and get the emulators running as I wanted. However, with a bit of patience and an hour or so of properly concentrating and reading guides online, I got it working.

Well worth persevering, but apart from the initial setup, it's not going to hold your hand, so just be aware of that.

This deal looks to have ended - £15.99 on site, £39.99 in basket :disappointed:

Make sure you have a robust network if you buy this, 802.11ac minimum I would recommend and ideally hard wire one side or even both to reduce latency. I bought one but ended up building a PC for the living room TV to game on.. a bit overkill but I wasn't fussed with upgrading my network.

For reference, here are past deals with discussions of latency, controllers etc.:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/steam-link-15-99-game-instore-online-2622575
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/steam-link-15-99-game-online-instore-2583036

got mine today with the steam controller its great for the money. the controller takes a bit of time to get used to but i played 2 hours of portal 2 and i'm getting better. But even with 100 hours i cant see it been better than a mouse and keyboard for some games, but for playing on the sofa you cant beat it

Heat Added.
Attempted to purchase from Exeter's Game on Saturday, but they were out of stock.
The cashier ordered it for me online but so far I cannot track the order. Hopefully I receive it soon.

​could you run through some of the tweaks you did on your steamlink? I'm guessing you have it wired as opposed to connected with WiFi? many thanks!

nice but only running steam no origin or uplay since most my best games are on others rather than steam itself

i know would have been nice even to do 1440p but i do agree its handy just a shame about rez

Just picked one up :-) Can't wait to get it set up

Have some heat OP

I got one of these over Christmas but unfortunately the lag is just unbearable when I use it, most probably because my desktop is on Wi-Fi. The SteamLink is connected to Cat6 but I don't think it helps all that much. Some non-Steam desktop applications (e.g. Cemu and media players) refuse to work with a controller connected to the SteamLink as well.

We just use xbox controllers :smiley:

Thanks though

Feck it, do not need it, do not want it, purchased.

I hate this site some days.

My one problem is that tp link adds 20 ms to the latency when streaming. I have tp-link AV500mbs nano power line. So my latency on average is 35ms.

Definitely a good buy at this price, but very problematic over wifi. Still get the occasional lag using Tp-link plug thingies, but all in all works quite well.

Love these. I have two in my house and no lag whatsoever. The controller is awful though.

Picked up an Nvidia shield when the new model came out, didn't realise that the ability to play Steam games through it also requires that Steam is installed on a PC running the Nvidia Experience software - so I couldn't connect to Steam on my laptop :disappointed:

So thanks OP, have picked one of these up from Grafton Cambridge Game - they have quite a few in stock if anyone else is in the area! Should allow me to get my Rocksmith running through the big screen!

Heat added! - possible 13% cashback with Quidco too: https://www.quidco.com/game/

I've recently set up a headless gaming server on ESXI with a low power 1050 GTX, and I've got a Xbox One S Wireless controller which I've read is compatible with this, so this will be a great cheap client machine for this price.

Might consider the Nvidia Shield at some point which offers Geforce NOW, GameStream and also Steam (yes, there's some overlap there), but it's priced way too high at the moment. For the meantime, this is the best bang for one's buck if you want to do game streaming.

For Steam games, I always keep an eye out for Humble Bundle packages, CDKeys and Steam sales to get good deals, but as others have said, you can do plenty of other things with emulators and the like.

After lacklustre performance over Wifi, once I'd got the house fitted up with AC1200 homeplug thingies the thing sputters into life. It really lives or dies based on your network and you're not going to get anywhere on a ten year old router/modem combo.

Desktop upstairs, steam link plugged into my TV downstairs, can either natively work with PS4 pad or from a tray on my lap with wireless mouse and keyboard (2.4GHz variety).

I wouldn't use it for competitive online play as there is a minimum of around 20ms lag no matter what, but I recently played through Dying Light, GRID 2, even a PS2 emulator with Katamari Damacy and had no issues. Stick it in "beautiful" mode and it'll double the bandwidth but have a lot less colour banding etc.

WARNING WARNING: Does not work with XBox One wireless dongle unless you buy a pricey and buggy software extra. You will instead have to plug that controller in wired.

Have some heat, this is a great deal that comes around fairly regularly.
I missed the last one (which came with a free controller case) but managed to borrow the link and controller from a buddy. The link worked perfectly on my wired network and while the controller will never replace a KB/M combo, it makes a fair crack at it. Worth persevering with so I've bitten and taken the deal this time. Got the pair, scheduled for delivery for under £50. Bargain!

Nice game controller just for £15.99, pick up then!

1080p only was disappointing

I love it when something you're considering comes up on hukd :smile:

Thanks OP!

Not always unless over wifi. Router wired to gaming PC then AC wifi to steam link a floor below works flawlessly. So just depends how good your wifi is.

This is amazing over wired or powerline,
but totally useless over WiFi due to lag.

So make sure you use wired/powerline and it means you can have the noisy PC in another room and game on any TV

Just bought another so I can play on any TV in the house :smiley:

I've got an nvidia shield which is supposed to do game streaming but I've not tried yet. Would this be better or is it pretty much the same thing?

So what kinda games works well with the steam controller? Would people recommend it over a PS4 controller for PC games?

Also does the controller works in windows as a wireless mouse. Could be useful for when I'm lazy and laying in bed watching streams

Keep on receiving the same message..this time and last time..Gave up. Stressed me out.

"You currently have 0 items in your basket. We know you're super excited to get gaming, but unfortunately this product is either out of stock or has been limited to a certain number per customer. Please check on the appropriate Product Page to see how many you’re able to buy. To try checking out again, click here to go back to the home page. Sorry about that! The following items were removed from your basket: Steam Link "

Some non-Steam desktop applications (e.g. Cemu and media players) refuse to work with a controller connected to the SteamLink as well.

I wasnt going to buy this until i saw that it can emulate, so i have a surface pro 4 im tech savvy i know the basics to mediums but deffo not a pc pro, im guessing i install dolphin etc separately to steam and then steam runs the emulators thru the pc to tv using this???? "/

Do i have to use the steam controller? Will an xbox/ nintendo pro controller work?
Thanks :smiley:

I wasnt going to buy this until i saw that it can emulate, so i have a surface pro 4 im tech savvy i know the basics to mediums but deffo not a pc pro, im guessing i install dolphin etc separately to steam and then steam runs the emulators thru the pc to tv using this???? "/

Do i have to use the steam controller? Will an xbox/ nintendo pro controller work?
Thanks :smiley:

Sorry for the noon question but would i be able to play mouse and keyboard only games through the TV using this like StarCraft 2 with the pc being upstairs and TV downstairs?

I bought one at this price! used it on Eternal crusade! was great, lower quality, minor lag but then I realised my other TV was only 2 metres away. lol. well worth a shot.

Decent bit of kit. Been running ps1 emulator through steam into my living room and using PS4 controllers connected via Bluetooth to play some classics with the Mrs :smiley:

magic! knew it had to come round again after missing out the last time.

Bought today, returning tomorrow. Too much lag over wifi. Unplayable even on my my 100Mbps broadband.

I used these controllers with the steam link, £15 at the moment (I got them for £10). They work great, only problem is they won't turn on the steam link - I use a wired 360 controller for that: - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LL0FMTC/ref=pe_385721_132043051_TE_dp_1

I have a strange relationship with my Steam controller... I love and want it to work but I just keep going back to the XBox 360 Pad.... I just can't find the sweet spot for the Steam One even after trying for ages with it..

so i buy the steam link and then i have to buy the controller so approx £50 to get steam games on my tv?

Would only recommend this if you have an AMD card, as streaming options are limited. If you have Nvidia install the moonlight app on any android device for game streaming.

Not a great device but better than nothing

A long ethernet cable also does the job, although its a little untidy.

I have a HDMI over Cat 6 setup between my PC and living room TV but Steam link with powerline adapters is a good backup and I personally find it works better than the Nvidia Shield for streaming

does witcher3 work on this to tv?

Dolphin, Citra, CEMU. Download those emulators. I can't guide you on how to get the games as a friend did it for me :wink:

Youtube how to set up the controller for the emulators and voila it works.

If you use Emulators then this takes gaming to the next level for me. I can now play Mario Kart 8, Mario Galaxy, Ocarina of time 3DS etc etc all in 4k on my TV downstairs.

That's just an added extra to all of your Steam library that you have to play too. The controller options that you have for your DS4/Steam Controller are incredible and you save your settings individually for each game.

This is useless without a Powerline installed in your house though. It is awful through Wireless.

For me, it's the best gaming related thing I've ever bought.

I got the steam controller last year but haven't really had a chance to try it out properly yet and get used to it. I also got the steam link last month and that works brilliantly over a powerline connection. I couldn't really notice any lag when playing games with a wireless mouse and keyboard connected to it. Great little device for the money and I will have to try the steam controller with it at some point and see how I get on with it.

These are great with a decent network setup. I use a few homeplugs and it works great. I've essentially turned my sim racing machine into a console for the kids. Helps me justify upgrades (in my head anyway :smile: )

My PC is fine on WiFi. I play Overwatch on it regularly and have a ~30ms ping. It just isn't adequate for high bandwidth applications like Steamlink, that's all.

These things work brilliantly if your network is up to the task, had major problems at first using WiFi but since I've switched to Ethernet it works great.

Friendly heads up - if you have a laptop with HDMI and internet you can do exactly what the steam link does just by installing steam and streaming from your gaming machine.

yes !!!!

Horrible thing. No control over vsync. Which is a problem paired with my gfx card.
Great when it works. But when it doesn't you're on your own with no support.

Steam Link gets a thumbs up
Steam Controller, unless you want to spend hours teaching yourself how to get used to it you'll curse the thing everytime you use it.

Yea the main reason i mention it is because i was looking at the steam link to play my pc games downstairs and one day I went on my laptop to play FF7 and saw i could stream all games installed on my desktop. Saved myself the £20 for the link to put towards a new game which was nice.

Just never saw this feature mentioned anywhere so thought if anyone here is considering it but has an old laptop they rarely use they could just use that + you get all the features of windows.

Surely not having to run your main desktop on WiFi would be the main pull, being able to use the steam link would just be an added bonus!

I picked one of these up the last time it was on sale in GAME, and it's been worth every penny. It's lag free for me, even over wifi, and even inches away from my 50'' TV, I don't see any MPEG noise. It's great. Although I think that's helped by the inbuilt compression of my GTX 1060, but any recent graphics card should do you well. Try it out on a laptop or something else first. Steam in home streaming is easy to setup, and works far better than Nvidia in home streaming in my experience.

Fair enough. I have a gaming pc, nas, and media server connected to mine so pretty essential. Anyway if you ever spot them on offer at a price you'd be willing to pay (they have been cheaper on occasion) I recommend them.

No. Tbh I won't really use this thing enough to justify the additional cost.

Got one last time at this price and although haven't used it much. It is good when I do use :sunglasses:

Got 2 of these (1 for living room and 1 for bedroom) using TPLink 1200 power adapters, it works flawlessly. No delay at all, I'm so impressed.

However, I have heard others having quite bad experiences (especially on wifi).

Picked one up from Game in Leeds - Loads of stock

The Steam Controller is a grower. At first I couldn't figure it out. I was cursing at it, waste of £28 etc...but after a while it clicks. It's actually very accurate when you get the hang of it; it can't fully substitute M+KB but it's a solid effort.

It's an absolute godsend for isometric RPGs. Being able to play Pillars of Eternity in bed on a 50" screen is pretty cool :smiley:

Really recommend at this price, along with the Steam Controller this has completely changed how I play PC games.

Expecting the usual flurry of "waste of money, lag, doesn't work" etc comments. Problem is that there's no guarantee how well the Steam Link will run with your setup. It can be a little glitchy at times and may not necessarily run flawlessly out the box. I had to do a lot of tweaking to get it running how I want it to - it's perfect now I've fixed it, but admittedly it was incredibly frustrating at first.

It's well worth a punt at £16 though. Heat :smiley:

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