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    Default Steam Unmetered Downloads

    Found a small program that has enabled me to download some purchased Steam games unmetered via Bigpond. I've downloaded three games in the last couple of days and all have been listed in my usage as unmetered, obviously I'm with Bigpond for this to work.

    Reading the website it looks like the program will work with some other Internet providers, but I have no way to check myself.



    Here's a link to the prog.





    Here's a quote from the site.

    Most non-US ISPs charge heavily for data usage which makes services like Steam expensive (or at worst, infeasible); some ISPs go to the effort of creating unmetered servers but there's no reliable way of limiting Steam's downloading to only those servers in Steam itself.

    This project provides a tool for restricting Steam's use of content servers so that it will only use the designated unmetered server provided by the ISP; at present this supports these ISPs:

    In New Zealand: TelstraClear, Orcon, Snap!, Slingshot, and XNet (also Canterbury, Lincoln, VUW and Waikato universities through Snap!)
    In Australia: Telstra BigPond, iiNet, Internode, Optus, iPrimus, and Adam (thanks to rules designed by Angus Wolfcastle)
    In South Africa: webafrica, Internet Solutions, SAIX and MWeb (along with a special detection system for dual ISPs)
    In Iceland: Vodafone Iceland (again thanks to Angus Wolfcastle)


    I've also used a small prog called TCPview, to check and make sure the remote address is the same as listed in stream-limiter, but the best way to tell is to log into bigpond and check the usage manually.

    Link to TCPview


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