local Steam Content server ip address?

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i want to try and force steam to use the local server using steam watch so i need the ip of the IS server, where can i get it?
 
Just set steam to download from Africa and it will find the IS content server.
 
Pada said:
I've given the IS Steam content server DNS & IP address here: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...l-steam-content-servers?p=4366082#post4366082
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Thanks Pada!

I've got a problem though.. My router is bridge mode since I'm running multiple PPPOE connections, so all ports should be open. Yet my downloads on steam stop completely when I run Steamwatch. I've done everything right I think and I've also deleted clientregistry.blob from the steam folder and tried restarting but no luck so far..
 
to0kenZA said:
Thanks Pada!

I've got a problem though.. My router is bridge mode since I'm running multiple PPPOE connections, so all ports should be open. Yet my downloads on steam stop completely when I run Steamwatch. I've done everything right I think and I've also deleted clientregistry.blob from the steam folder and tried restarting but no luck so far..
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Steam doesn't really like being forced to download from one location. Also remember the IS one doesn't always have everything IIRC.

Give it some time and it should start up eventually.

Here is the Webafrica server address: 41.185.60.43

Here are the two I have:

<!--List of IP addresses to allow-->
<whiteList>
<address>196.38.180.3</address>
<address>41.185.60.43</address>
</whiteList>
</steamWatch>
 
to0kenZA, just get a R15 prepaid 1GB WA account. It doesn't expire at the end of the month. The best of all is that the Steam content server is on their FreeZone list, meaning that it won't use up your normal cap for Steam downloads.

I think we should rather ask the guys at Steam to add South Africa as a separate country in the list of Locations, because its really annoying to download from international Steam servers at 3kB/s.

I've already tried to ask on the Steam support forums that they should include South Africa as a separate Location, so that our Steam would actually try to download the content from local servers.
If you completely block the other IP addresses, apart from WA & IS Steam content servers, then I doubt that you'll be able to even authenticate with Steam. I haven't spent that much time trying to block the other IP's though.
 
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Hi Pada,

I only added the IS server to my whitelist now and I've downloaded 2 GB so far @ 400kb/s so it seems like it's working now without using my international cap, although my usage might not be updating as yet. I will check tomorrow though.

I agree, they should add SA to it's own region..that would make life and the cost so much easier. Do you have the thread still? Maybe we should get more people to go ask them.
 
Ok, I registered there now. I will also post a comment. Maybe we should get some more people to ask, maybe that will be a bit more convincing.


Oh dude, by the way- looks like my download last night did use local bandwidth. But, there was about 500MB gone from my international cap. How you explained Steamwatch should make sense of that. If the application is polling the TCP connections and closing them, maybe some connections sneak in and uses some bandwidth before they get disconnected, right?

Anyhow, until they add South Africa as an independent region, this will do for now :D
 
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Well, the biggest issue is that SteamWatch is only monitoring port 27030 and sometimes Steam would actually download on port 27031 too.
 
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