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Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: TheMunch8 on January 03, 2005, 11:01:36 PM

I am starting a comprehensive list of which colleges STEAM work with and which colleges it does not. If you go to college, and live or have lived in the dorms, PLEASE HELP ME OUT.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...threadid=222072 (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=222072)

IF you dont' have a steampowered.com forum account, just post here. I will add it there. Thank you.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: SwiftSpear on January 03, 2005, 11:48:00 PM

The Kings Univesity College, Edmonton Alberta: Doesn't work
Reason: Port filtering applied to all non HTML traffic to prioritize "work" functions, thus universities 2 Megabit line is always too clogged to run other port functions

University of Alberta: works like you wouldn't belive... I had a friend who played counterstrike via wireless on his laptop for an entire history class.  The place is running more fiber optics than a raisenbran factory on the sun!  Last year it was running the fastest counterstrike server in canada out of the dorms.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: confused! on January 04, 2005, 01:00:58 AM

Indiana University bloomington. works. servers can only be hosted with permission. serious lag during peak times.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: TheMunch8 on January 04, 2005, 01:13:17 AM

Thanks guys, Added all 3 of them.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: Torgo on January 04, 2005, 07:23:55 AM

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Steam and basically anything else works fine with consistently low pings during all times of the day.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: Malevolent on January 04, 2005, 08:42:35 AM

That's good to know Torgo.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: SwiftSpear on January 04, 2005, 02:27:04 PM

Munch, you don't have any differentiation between which universites steam works in or doesn't in your steampowered post...  Kings university DOESN'T work with steam...

[edit] to clairfy, it doesn't compleatly block steam ports, it just filters them so they run too slow to acctually play on...  It took me 3 hours to verify my HL2 copy over steam from kings (to VERIFY, not to download, I installed via DVD).

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: TheMunch8 on January 04, 2005, 03:09:45 PM

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Munch, you don't have any differentiation between which universites steam works in or doesn't in your steampowered post...  Kings university DOESN'T work with steam...

[edit] to clairfy, it doesn't compleatly block steam ports, it just filters them so they run too slow to acctually play on...  It took me 3 hours to verify my HL2 copy over steam from kings (to VERIFY, not to download, I installed via DVD).

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From the steampowered forums, near the bottem of the first post.  To make it more clear, i made the titles and states/countries in a larger text.  I added some extra info in the second post of mine.  Thanks for the reply

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List of Universities that Steam does NOT work in

Canada:
The Kings Univesity College, Edmonton Alberta

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: SwiftSpear on January 04, 2005, 03:32:47 PM

This would acctually look really good done officially on a website somewhere... that way prospective students from anywhere could look it up with ease, and it could be somewhat of a qualitative statement that universites and colleges could use to determine thier standing in the gaming world...  Of course the whole thing would take alot of work, and thus it will probably never be done, just like the many many other things gaming nerds could have done to improve thier standing on sociaty but haven't.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: Diablus on January 04, 2005, 04:35:00 PM

your going to detrmine your future by how wel lthe schools work with steam?

now thats what I call a true gamer

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: SwiftSpear on January 04, 2005, 05:00:13 PM

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your going to detrmine your future by how wel lthe schools work with steam?

now thats what I call a true gamer

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No, but I had options, and the fact that steam doesn't work means I probably can't do alot of other things I would want to be able to access on the system...  Any ISP that doesn't allow steam is going to be frustrating for any power user, not just obsessive gamers.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: Hida Tsuzua on January 04, 2005, 06:44:46 PM

William and Mary- Steam works.  Never had a problem with pings.  Just as your computer is reasonably secure, you can do most anything.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: TheMunch8 on January 04, 2005, 08:39:04 PM

Thanks, added

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: Dark on January 04, 2005, 09:27:33 PM

i posted at least 3 of the ones i know for sure that work in texas and if i think of others then i will add them to my post on the steam forums

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: TheMunch8 on January 04, 2005, 10:01:42 PM

Thanks :) added them

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: That Annoying Kid on January 05, 2005, 10:32:44 PM

Steam works well at the UCDavis dorms, low pings yet resnet still gets saturated

don't know about hosting, I will ask my NGR about it

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: TheMunch8 on January 05, 2005, 11:54:18 PM

thanks, added ucdavis.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: Doobie Dan on January 06, 2005, 11:29:23 AM

Works fine at University of Kentucky, at least it did while I was living in the dorms.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: Malevolent on January 06, 2005, 03:15:32 PM

You missed Michigan State University (in East Lansing). Torgo said it.

Title: Go To colleg?
Post by: TheMunch8 on January 06, 2005, 04:02:42 PM

added university of kentukey and Michigan State University.
I don't know how i missed Michigan State University...that was weird.   Thanks guys :) keep em comming