Steam through a router

Re: Steam through a router Posted by halexmorph on Thu Jan 27th 2005 at 9:17pm

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Does anyone know how to make it so that you can host games on steam
through a router? i tried looking through the steam website and
stuff and i can't find anything that will help. I've already
forwarded the ports, now i've heard i need to edit a file? i'm
not sure how to do this. anyone know?

Re: Steam through a router Posted by Quaver on Thu Jan 27th 2005 at 9:28pm

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Posted 2005-01-27 9:28pm

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All i needed to do was open ports 27015 and 27020 then in game click create server

Re: Steam through a router Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jan 27th 2005 at 10:06pm

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yeh, do that.

You can find instructions for most routers here:

http://www.portforward.com/

Re: Steam through a router Posted by Gorbachev on Thu Jan 27th 2005 at 11:48pm

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The ports are easily accessable in the Steam Support section...

Re: Steam through a router Posted by Forceflow on Fri Jan 28th 2005 at 3:56pm

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Quite obvious, but if you have an additional software firewall installed, make sure you configure it too.