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[sobrique]

Well, they replied quick.
But it seems nope, you can't stop Steam from sucking your internet connection dry.
How irritating.



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Comments

[gingerboy.livejournal.com]

Some thoughts:
How many PCs do you have? Were you still working here when we did the test simulation of moving the VC server to Germany? Put a PC in the middle of two servers with bandwidth throttling routing software to simulate a slow link.

Install VMware and throttle the guest network bandwidth.

Knowing what you did with XStopper here, can't you work out how to inject a load of TCP/IP retransmit requests and so cause that TCP/IP connection to artificially slow down (reduce the transmit window size or similar?) to compensate? Or flood with ARP announcements so only 1 in 10 attempts does it manage to contact the outside world?

Install a web proxy on your machine which allows you to throttle bandwidth, and only configure Steam to use it?