calculatedChaos Gaming

In the past week I've been absent from TF2 for the same reason I started again, because I got a new laptop for college. At first the jackasses said they failed to make a wireless network like I was promised, and then up until yesterday their wired network was down too. Now it's up and running, and best part is my steam won't update.

Problem: steam update stops at 0%, 1%, or 3%ish

What I've tried: repairing the install, unistalling, and reinstalling

What I suspect: "It's got to be the college bro"

Solution: That's where you guys come in

Ok try this

While having steam closed (but still installed).
Delete your clientregistry.blob file then restart steam.
I don't actually know what that file does, but it starts from scratch with your updates when you delete it.

I think its just in the first steam folder.

Done but alas, no dice.

I'm giving up for now.

Wait wait. I don't know if its possible, but try looking up the most recent steam update on google and try downloading from an external site, and applying it that way.

alright, ill give it a go. I can always just delete steam if I mess up.

I found the source of the problem, cause I'm so brilliant. The college is blocking a port in the 27000-27050 range, and steam uses one of the ports that are blocked.

Now to buy a couple of drinks for the IT guy here and get him to unblock it... maybe the xbox port too

Me, being the mastermind that I am, found a way to use a combination of HTTP tunneling and a SOCKS program to open steam through port 80, which is such a common port they would be mad to block it.

I've currently made it to 43%, far past my personal best of 3%. Now alls thats left is testing the speed and actually try to connect to steam and their servers.

Triple post!

Good luck. Why would a college block a video game port? I mean my work does that but a school?

captainangry wrote:Good luck. Why would a college block a video game port? I mean my work does that but a school?

i would imagine that most schools would have gaming-related app ports blocked. cant have the edu net used for fun now can we!

I was having the same problem at Akron, they blocked certain ports so I was unable to play some online games when the servers where shifting. I was weird but alas TF2 never gave me issues, come to think of it I already moved to the apt before TF2 was released, so scratch that comment...

z0th wrote:

captainangry wrote:Good luck. Why would a college block a video game port? I mean my work does that but a school?

i would imagine that most schools would have gaming-related app ports blocked. cant have the edu net used for fun now can we!

no way, not college.

I've talked to people about it and it's not that those ports are blocked, but more that those ports were never considered to be opened. People said they open ports they want instead of blocking ports they don't. I failed terribly at HTTP tunneling, anyone who know more could help me, I'd appreciate it. Steam still insists on it's never ending quest to update itself through a blocked port.

I'm going to try to talking with the IT guy but even that probably won't work. He'll have to unblock all the ports for steam, steam updates, steam services, steam chat, TF2, all things associated with servers, and probably a lot more to make it work right. I simply will never be able to make a definitive list of all the ports involved that is actually reasonable.

I'm taking the RR home this weekend to get some stuff, and I'll probably be on steam for a bit. I juts don't think I can fix this...