Hey guys,

Is this possible to do?

Force my steam updates to use GA content servers?

If so. anybody able to please provide a run down?

cheers.

you cant

no

the best you can do is block non-GA servers, but that doesn't mean you'll end up on a GA server

point all of the other servers ips to a ga one in your hosts file =)

trog: ok that's alright.
Is there any way to tell (from behind a router) which servers im downloading from?

Currently I just get local i.p ranges with netstats /a

point all of the other servers ips to a ga one in your hosts file =)

The hosts file maps hostnames to IPs.

It doesn't remap/redirect IPs to other IPs.

Used IPSEC and netlimiter to monitor which ip's it was connecting to. Just ended up blocking by subnet. Blocked GA by Ip and it only ever downloads from the one I want now.

There's an entry under Steam in the registry that notes the last content server you were connected to, and from what I gather, Steam will first try to connect to that server before it does to others. I had a registry key saved out which I'd use every now and again to reset that back to the GA servers if it'd change for some reason, but I'm with TPG instead of Telstra now, and it doesn't seem to do anything.

The GA steam server's addresses are 203.46.104.7 and 203.46.104.8.

Anything else is non GA.

"last content provider url" = "http://games.bigpond.com/gamearena-steam.html"

I assume that means i'd have been using GA then yeah?

Got OrangeBox Pre-ordered but dont have the ziggybytes to preload TF2 + Lost Coast/Ep2 when its released :<

Don't bother with Lost Coast, it's boring and it's all over in 30 minutes.

wasn't lost coast just an HDR demonstration? or is it actually a proper game now?

It is a HDR demo, but it has game play in it too. Quite a fun level, but very short.

gah wish there was a way to save the receipt to the computer because i cant print it out from my room :(

Print to .pdf using cutepdf or some other program?

last edited by Triamks at 14:28:20 16/Sep/07

You get the receipt details in email anyway, does it print some magical certificate you want to frame or something...?

i just got the email, so atleast i can print that out.