SteamPowered.com
 

Can anyone get http://www.steampowered.com ?

cheers

Ian

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Yup no problem

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Not working here in sunny Sandy

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no probs mate

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No problem here.

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Looks like a Poplar Proxy prob again then :(

I noticed it because I fired up Halflife for a quick game and Steam brought in the weeks update box, but it was empty, clicking the 'News' Box just brings a browser error.

Ho Hum - another day in paradise

Thanks for the answers

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Tried Cosham proxy and it works !
cosh-cache-4.server.ntli.net

These proxies I tried earlier do not work with streampowered.com as well as my Poplar default ones:

swan-cache-5.server.ntli.net
hers-cache-8.server.ntli.net
bagu-cache-4.server.ntli.net
colc-cache-4.server.ntli.net

Why do we have to continue to put up with these useless things :(

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Was looking into this earlier on another forum, problems on lutn also.

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Wont load here in Leeds

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ok here

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Yeah, dont work for me.

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We really need a quicker and more direct way of reporting these proxy errors, I've so far spent over a month with my own personal queries and only today was the Poplar fault with my servers escalated to Network management, I added the steampowered.com site to my problem report but it will probably take another month before that one is looked at.

NTL really need to sort these proxies out, (and Cogent over 450 ping tonight and dead slow to all Cogent routed sites - although thats off topic for here), these errors are far too frequent now and for steampowered.com to be failing on what looks like a good proportion of their network (if my testing of about 10 proxies is anything to go by) is quite frankly pathetic.

NTL's network is pretty poor at the moment - add to this the terrible 'channel 7' problem with their tv, and the delaying of new channel launches because their network is rubbish is just beyond belief - they should be paying us to use their service !

ok [rant over]

:)

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It's still possible the problem is on the steam end - I know of one specific example of a proxy problem where the problem was a block on the remote end rather than anything wrong with the ntl proxies, and the affected proxies themselves are working OK for other sites.

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I've just had a call from NTL regarding the Poplar proxies, they guy told me that Valve are currently blocking the Leeds and Poplar Caches from accessing steampowered.com, and that it should be sorted in a day or so (not sure how that affects the Hersham/Colchester etc ones but anyway I guess its all related somehow).

Presumably someone has been a naughty boy (or girl) in those areas ;)

Blimey, Cogent and NTL contacting me in one day...I must go and lie down..

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Still having problems here..... :( any updates from NTL yet?

btw mick, thanks for pointing me to this thread :)

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No updates yet, I imagine this will take weeks, if not months - EBuyer and Betanews took almost a year to fix.

Sadly this is becoming a regular occurance with these proxies, the actions of one muppet somewhere causes a website/company to ban the ip range - thereby banning thousands of people instead of the one or handful actually involved.

We see a similar thing with Rapidshare, whereby the Proxy address gets banned due to 'too much activity'.

Its only going to get worse..
If you are an NTL customer then parts of the web are slowly becoming no go areas for you - Rapidshare, the webs largest filesharing site is virtually unusable, and now steampowered, the worlds largest FPS...worrying isn't it :(

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how the hell can this SUDDENLY happen? Im gonna ring NTL tonight.... what proxy can we use? :|

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Baguley works last time I tried, who knows now..

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Hi there, i'm on the Luton NTL proxy here in Bedford, and am too being blocked from steampowered.com and sub-domains.
Thanks, FiRe.

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I can confirm that www.steampowered.com is not accpetable from Luton. Also shacknews.com also not working. Phoned CS Tech support and they tried at their end - they got the front screen up and one popup that said page not displayed.

There are other message on the forums reporting problems accessing www.steampowered.com.

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I've tried using cosh-cache-4.server.ntli.net:8080, and it works, thankfully :)

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Yup, cosh-cache-4.server.ntli.net works fine.

Phoned up NTL again. After about 20 minutes of being treated like a Moron - Oh there is some maintenance on the cable stream your modem is on. I said that it has been like it for 2 days (which it has) same reply she said - maintenance on channel ? - fop off me thinks

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tried on colc-6 and works.

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Anyone got a proxy for the south east that works properly for steampowered website?

Cheers

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Err.. name some places in the South East, my geography is bad.

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London!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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As Chrysalis posted above you - Colchester 6 works
colc-cache-6.server.ntli.net

cheers

Ian

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h,mm am on the nrth-cache-1.server.ntli.net. 1 and I dont have a single problem getting on the steampowered.com site

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That proxy is fine here too, but many are not.

A moderator at steampowered asked Valve a day ago about them blocking NTL, today they posted saying they are categorically NOT blocking NTL users.

The ball is back in NTL's court...

I just wish they would fix or get rid of these proxies, they are crap.
Shacknews.com still broken here too.

Not funny any more...

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Ian...am on the nrth-cache-1.server.ntli.net proxy and I dont have any probs even getting on Shacknews ;) so try that 1 perhaps...okay opened fine in all browsers :)

can you ping their server at all on 68.142.120.133 ???

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Thanks, it works fine on that one, the problem is that currently I have to set different proxies for different sites, its a real pain in the...

One for my Cogent server, one for Shacknews, one for steam, one for betanews etc etc..

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It is probably the network owners, "Limelight Networks", rather than Valve themselves who have instigated the block.
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=69.28.175.115

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just tried some proxies and steampowered website loads but forums doesnt :S

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simbr, you might have something there, Shacknews is on that network too by the looks of it.

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Ian, any luck with NTL yet? I'm deffo ringing this evening.

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Nope, I told the executive office about steampowered.com on the 14th of September, still nothing has been done, I was told Valve were blocking NTL customers - Valve have since denied this - it still doesn't work, neither does shacknews.com which appears to be on the same network (LLNW)

To say I'm sick of the poor service is an understatement, please do ring them and raise a reponsetek form, but I imagine they will ignore like they have been ignoring everyone else from steampowered.com that has complained.

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the executive office is either ill informed about how these proxies affect things or they been ignorant and passing the buck, either way the future doesnt look rosy for us.

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Steampowered.com and Shacknews.com are back working correctly on Poplar tonight !


hurrah !

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Ah yes, of course, everyone at ntl is 'ignoring' complaints, just like they always do :erm:

oh hang on ... they are working now ... obviously someone missed the order to ignore the problem. Then again, maybe it wasn't an ntl problem at all ...... :cool:

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ignored is probably the wrong way of putting it Paul, slow is more appropriate :)

Steampowered is now working on my normal Luton proxy (cache server 6 I think it was!)

:D

I hope its working for everyone now...

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10 days from first reported, yep I'd say ignored, or perhaps more correctly, acknowledged - then ignored.

In fact, if you knew the history of my complaint (ask Mick) then ignored is quite a polite way of putting it !

Anyhow they are working now :)

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Cheers for everyone's efforts :)

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good news lets hope it stays this way :)

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In a large Company 10 days is not a very long time - it was never "ignored". There is a large difference between ignoring a problem, and not being organised enough to actually deal with it. :)

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ntl Statement Regarding proxy issues:-

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=35790

To keep the discussion flowing in one single thread - this one is now closed - Please use the above thread for further recent proxy issues discussion. Thanks. :)