hmmm maybe but i think its more likely to be my uni firewalls/routers
I've heard http tunneling or something can let me around the network routers/firewalls?? Anyone know much about this?
Big bear/Dan?
EDIT: hmmm seemed to have found the answer
http://www.dur.ac.uk/grey.jcr/discus...abcf15c1477544
post about half way down using sockscap and ssh tunnel, found a few other sites saying this method works too.
Like this one on halfelife.net:
There is a workaround, i posted on the steam forums months ago which uses HTTP Tunnel and SocksCAP to enable activating via port 80. Since thats not blocked at universities, it will allow those able to access it. I can't get onto the steam forums at the moment to actually link to it but its relatively simple.
Download HTTP-Tunnel from www.http-tunnel.com install that and connect. Download Socks-CAP from http://www.socks.permeo.com/Downloa...nload/index.asp and then configure sockscap to use 127.0.0.1:1080 as your proxy server. You then add Steam in as a program and launch Steam from within Sockscap. This tunnels all the traffic through port 80 (open by HTTP-Tunnel)
Simple. Get connected that way. It was tested ages ago on the Steam forums and people were connecting to Steam and downloading updates as well with it. Once they decide to take the forums back to life, i'll properly link to it.
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Only problem is, i dont know how to set up a tunnel in the first place. Apart from the ports, what do i put for username, SSH host and password?
Help needed quickly, im dying to play this