


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)
