One of my friends told me about the VPN service Perfect Privacy, but it was a bit too pricey for my tastes. When I first arrived I tried connecting to my canadian university’s vpn through the Cisco vpn client, but the port to run that program was blocked, too. I tried to call him again to clarify his email address, but he started ignoring my calls, which left me without many options. I got the phone number of the network admin, and he answered my first phone call and gave me his email address, but it didn’t work at all when I tried to contact him to ask him to open a few ports for my MAC address.

I went to a couple of websites to check which ports I had open, and the only was essentially 80, which is used for surfing the web. I wanted to say hello to them over ventrilo, but I wasn’t able to reach any servers- the American one I used to frequent or even the European one used for gathers. A week later, it miraculously let me login and use steam friends, which was nice, because I really missed all of my gaming friends. I’m proud to say that I am almost certain that I was the only person to arrive with their own cat5/ethernet cord! You definitely learn a lot from going to LAN parties! When the internet finally did work, Steam still wouldn’t load for me. When I arrived, though, the internet wasn’t working at all! The first night was very difficult sans internet.

I was really looking forward to playing euro TF2 gathers with an amazing ping. I was really excited about the residence that I chose in Lyon, because the website said that it would have unlimited adsl internet. (How to open blocked ports to play steam games at the end of the post)

Steam team fortress 2 rules