Steam Help?

Nurot · January 2004

Ok, I think Iv'e asked this before, but I want to make sure no hope is available. I run steam from my dorm and from campus our pings are in the 1000s. Is there no way to change this, we can play LAN games and access the internet fine, but for the life of us we can't access a net game. We used to be able to do WON games perfectly fine, but since steam showed up for some reason we can't do either. Ideas? Or lost cause?

devicenull · January 2004

I bet the network is blocking the ports you need, try adding +port 80 to the end of your steam commandline
As for the pings, it could be a slow network, or it could be congested

Vadakill · January 2004

In my experience with campus LANs is they are often congested to hell. Everyone has AOL instant messenger and most people have them improperly configured with news and stock tickers. This means each person on the LAN logged into AIM is using 1-2K a second, times that by however many people live on campus then add all the file leachers, porn, downloads, warez kiddies and kazaa users make for a really crowded and crappy network.

The sys admins usually devide the bandwidth they have into two groups. Campus computer networks, classrooms and faculty computers on one side with the majority of the bandwidth and on the other side all of the student computers in the dorms.

Have fun! When I went to school I had the same problem...I ended up getting cable internet from my local cable service provider.

chis1 · January 2004

are collection connection is like 2MB :| its awesome, but they have blocked out like

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Steam Help?

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