Is it posible to boot up a computer while on a diffrent network and then use it to play games?

Possible? Yes. Usable? Maybe, it would all depend on the inteet connection of your home and where you're at.

A major difference between LANs and WANs is that WANs are shared resources, and LANs are dedicated to the owner of the network, normally. You can try it, but it's all going to boil down to two things: 1) How good the inteet connections are between you and your desktop; 2) How many other users on the nodes you and your desktop are on are attempting to use the connections at the same time.

Video services, (such as Youtube, Netflix, Vimeo, and more), already have a compressed file that they're sending you when you stream the video from them. It's the same file over and over again, so they can send you as much as possible to buffer it when your inteet starts to drop.

Games tend to be live, and highly detailed for the more mode and fancy ones. More details require more processing power and bandwidth to transfer. And since everything is on the fly, if your inteet starts to lag, then you're going to be loosing frames.

A few years ago I tried to use LogMeIn to play Wow at work, and the frame rate was bad for me; however I was only on a 10Mbps connection while at work, so a higher speed inteet would have helped.

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