steo on 22/2/2011 at 00:16
Good idea, but it's more of an issue that the university won't let us unblock the ports required for steam.
Yakoob on 22/2/2011 at 00:41
Oh god steo I feel your pain. My uni blocks it too on campus housing, so I dont have access to like 50+ games I bought. So goddamn annoying.
Their reasoning is, they dont want kids playing games, they want them studying. But I'm twenty goddamn three, I dont need the school telling me how I should manage my time, thank you very much.
gunsmoke on 22/2/2011 at 02:43
Why are you living in dorms @ 23 years old? I have never heard of that in my life, save for dudes from fucking Somalia or India and shit.
Yakoob on 22/2/2011 at 03:25
Scholarship
d0om on 22/2/2011 at 16:36
As long as you have SSH port open, you can SSH out and open a tunnel to redirect your steam traffic down that and out into the free internet.
Or use a VPN.
These will require an account on an external computer though.
gunsmoke on 22/2/2011 at 21:12
Quote Posted by Yakoob
Scholarship
Scholarship what? Are they paying for your room and board along with tuition if you live on campus?
Nameless Voice on 22/2/2011 at 22:56
Around here, there's a lot of student accommodation (supposedly cheapish?) right next to the college, and while they all have Internet access, everything is blocked there - Steam, Battle.net, misc game ports, torrents, etc.. It makes me wonder how they can call it student accommodation with a straight face while making it so student-unfriendly. I'm glad I never had to live there.
steo on 22/2/2011 at 23:40
Yes, university halls in the UK can be extremely fascist. A friend of mine used to be in halls at Queen Mary, where you weren't allowed to smoke, not just indoors but anywhere on campus - and it was a good five minute walk to get off-campus from his room. Fortunately the rule wasn't that strictly enforced, but he did get shouted at by security guards a lot. I've been lucky enough to avoid most of the ridiculousness of university accommodation though.
And I certainly wouldn't say university accommodation is particularly cheap, either.
Yakoob on 23/2/2011 at 03:44
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Scholarship what? Are they paying for your room and board along with tuition if you live on campus?
Pretty much.
steo - Belfast NI here, holla! Also you brits are fucking paranoid about fires you know that?
catbarf on 23/2/2011 at 04:09
My school is a nerd school. If they blocked Steam, the campus would be on fire within ten minutes. It seems utterly ridiculous that a campus would block certain applications- is there really much of a liability issue in regards to piracy?
