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Posted by Kain on Wed Mar 9th at 7:33am 2005

I dunno if I should post this here; well, I recently got a cable connection, and I surf the web through a proxy. It seems they have closed the ports used by Steam to preserve their bandwidth (they also cllosed P2P programs, audio and video conferencing, etc..). Is there a way to bypass this? Maybe re-route Steam to another port?



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Posted by Trapt on Wed Mar 9th at 8:07am 2005

Have you tried Port Forwarding? Google for it. [addsig]



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Posted by Varsity on Wed Mar 9th at 9:37am 2005

No. You will have to talk to the system admins or get used to offline mode.




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Posted by Leperous on Wed Mar 9th at 9:51am 2005

My brother had the same problem- as Varsity said, talk to the people who run your proxy/network. You can find out the ports that Steam uses on their website.



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Posted by fraggard on Wed Mar 9th at 9:52am 2005

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I dunno if I should post this here; well, I recently got a cable connection, and I surf the web through a proxy. It seems they have closed the ports used by Steam to preserve their bandwidth (they also cllosed P2P programs, audio and video conferencing, etc..). Is there a way to bypass this? Maybe re-route Steam to another port?


Get ProxyCap ( http://proxylabs.netwu.com/ ) or any equivalent free tunnelling program. Your requirements will be TCP and UDP tunnelling through your proxy.

What sort of proxy does your host use? If it is a HTTP proxy, chances are you're out of luck. Many HTTP proxies do not allow the CONNECT method which is required for Proxycap to work. I've tried everything I can think of but I cannot get around mine.

If it is a Socks4 or Socks5 proxy ProxyCap should work just fine.

The only problem is latency. It increases considerably through a port80 tunnel, so you will probably get 0wned on most servers. But, like me, if you're just looking for updates this won't affect you at all. The d/l speeds will be similar from what I understand.




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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Mar 9th at 9:55am 2005

i have been meaning to ask this. cannot you people in school get your own internet access without the need to go through your school?

DSL comes via phone lines. i have seen that many dorm rooms have a phone.

course, i could be talking out my ass, or just seen rooms with phones :/

[addsig]



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Posted by Kain on Wed Mar 9th at 1:36pm 2005

Thanks a lot you guys for your input. I called them several times, but they're not very cooperative (they say they'll call back and then they don't...). I still have my modem but it's too slow: the authentication took several hours, so it'll take me months to download the 30Mb deathmatch... I think I'll try the tunneling trick.

Plus, there's a real revolution going on in here, so I understand those cable guys: they have other things to worry about right now... me too I guess






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