Steam and proxy

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?

Have you tried Port Forwarding? Google for it.

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

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.

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.

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 :/

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 :sad: