Local Steam content server coming to WebAfrica!

[StarPhoenix]

I resurrected my STEAM account this evening, did the necessary updates, fetched SteamWatch and edited SteamWatchSettings.xml
and started downloading the Torchlight demo.

My download is 67% complete and has varied between 37.3 and 42.5KB/s, which is normal on my line.

For those who are interested:

1. Make sure you have a WebAfrica broadband account, not their 30GB IS local account as this will not be able to access the Freezone.
2. Download, install and update Steam.
3. Open Steam, go into File/Settings/Downloads and set your region to Africa. Select OK, close Steam.
4. Download and install a program called SteamWatch 3.
5. Right click on SteamWatch in your Windows toolbar. Select “Settings”, and make sure the “Block Connections” box is selected. Select “OK”, SteamWatch will minimize.
6. Again, right click SteamWatch. Choose “Edit SteamWatch Settings.xml”. A text document will open. Scroll down to the bottom where you will see a list of lines that read something similar to “< address >(IP address, i.e. 41.163.54.32) < / address> ”. Delete all of these lines except for one.
On the remaining line, replace the IP address in between the < address> tags with the following:
“41.185.60.43”
Once this is done, the edited section will look something like this:


< !- - List of IP addresses to allow - - >

< whitelist>

< address> 41.185.60.43 < /address>


< steamwatch>

Save and close the file.

7. Again, right click on the SteamWatch tab in your toolbar. Choose “Stop Steam Watch”.
8. Open Steam. Browse the store of available downloads, and select a few you like.
9. Check the download in the “MyGames” tab. Once Steam connects to an international server, and the download is in progress, right click on SteamWatch again and select “Start SteamWatch”. SteamWatch will now make sure that Steam only accesses content from the IP we entered in step 6. This is Webafrica’s Freezone Steam server.
10. If your downloads do not commence you can try the following:
Close Steam and stop SteamWatch. Go into your Steam folder (default is C:/Program Files/Steam). Delete a file called ClientRegistry.blob. Revert to beginning of step

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Oh, so the server is active now?! Awesome!

[KillerByte]

The server is up but the system is not flawless so there are a few issues.

[Anakha56]

So I would like to say that I get those speeds with my SAOL Uncapped so I dont think I will be needing this. Its great for everyone else who is not with SAOL Uncapped though .

BTW Star whilst those speeds are fantastic its painful when you have a 2GB patch that needs downloading for a newly released game...

[StarPhoenix]

So I would like to say that I get those speeds with my SAOL Uncapped so I dont think I will be needing this. Its great for everyone else who is not with SAOL Uncapped though .

BTW Star whilst those speeds are fantastic its painful when you have a 2GB patch that needs downloading for a newly released game...

Nobody likes a show-off, Anakin.

Nevertheless, I can't say that I enjoy downloading large files on my line, but that is something I aim to rectify
once I am [relatively] rich.

@DAE:Let's just say that it is in the public testing phase.

[DAE_JA_VOO]

[quote="StarPhoenix"@DAE:Let's just say that it is in the public testing phase. [/quote]

And it failed me Tried it last night - no luck

[Anakha56]

So, out of curiosity, I downgraded my line form 4mb to 384k if I buy a WebAfrica 1GB account what speed would the line connect at? It should be 384k right?

[DAE_JA_VOO]

So, out of curiosity, I downgraded my line form 4mb to 384k if I buy a WebAfrica 1GB account what speed would the line connect at? It should be 384k right?

That's correct If you're only paying for a 384K line, you should (theoretically) never get speeds faster than 384Kbps.

[Anakha56]

Terrible wording on my side .

I thought that was the case just remembered seeing something about if you get your line upgraded to a 4mb but have a ISP who is 384k you could get a cheaper account from another ISP that would use your 4mb line. No idea where I saw it but it stuck for some reason, might be remembering something else though...

[Xiphan]

So I would like to say that I get those speeds with my SAOL Uncapped so I dont think I will be needing this. Its great for everyone else who is not with SAOL Uncapped though .

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