Planning to use Steam at college?

[Passerby]

It's not a matter of blocking students from gaming, it's more to do with the ports that a university leaves open. Some universities really stress security and they block a port range that unfortunately blocks the ports required by Steam, so it gets blocked automatically.

also some purposely restrict gaming and p2p traffic because of network strain and bandwidth usage

 

[Waddle Dee]

Network strain. Psht, for what you pay to go to college at least you shoulf get some decent broadband.