Recent reviews by HardTop

For a long time I was reluctant to buy one, mostly because my computer was hooked to my TV set already and I didn't feel the Steam Link would be useful. Still I told myself it could be interesting to have one in store just in case. Time went on and the Steam Link went out of production just when I realized I finally needed one, having moved my computer to another room.

I found a used one on an online store and bought it for more than what I could've paid had I decided to buy one on Steam earlier... But no matter, that little device is amazingly effective. I hooked it to a Gigabit Ethernet port, connected my Steam Controller receiver then my TV set to the HDMI port and Bob's your uncle.

It works wonders. Even with an average network connection it still works very well with minor latency. All my Steam Controller profiles were kept within Steam and I could reuse them though the Link.

Resolution & compression are dynamically adjusted for the available bandwidth to provide the smoothest experience possible and I have to say it's really amazing how well that works.

I'm pretty sure it could even be used to remotely play through the internet provided you forward the right ports on the router, but you'd need a solid uplink connection for this to work reasonably well enough.