<p>I've tried for hours to try to get Steam to connect in my dorm but all I get is "To run Steam, you must first connect to the internet". I obviously am connected to the internet, and I've tried all sorts of crap to try and get it to work but haven't succeeded. Has anyone had a similar experience or maybe knows a solution?</p>
<p>Ethernet or wireless? Location and name of wireless connection?</p>
<p>Steam works fine for me. I’m using (wifi) ‘UCLA<em>SECURE</em>RES’. By the way, I’ve tried to play games on some of the other wifi choices and it didn’t work, so make sure you’re not on ‘UCLA<em>WEB</em>RES’ or others like that.</p>
<p>UCLA<em>WEB and UCLA</em>WEB_RES block all ports except those for internet browsing (unless you use a VPN.) </p>
<p>You need to use UCLA<em>WIFI or UCLA</em>SECURE_RES. (or use your UCLA VPN)</p>
<p>[How</a> do I connect to the wireless network on campus?](<a href=“Knowledge Base - UCLA IT Portal”>Knowledge Base - UCLA IT Portal)</p>
<p>why are you using wifi for online games? I know it’s convenient, but nothing beats an ethernet cable.</p>
<p>with the transfer speed of draft n these days you don’t have to stay on ethernet to have good connection anymore, sometimes its just inconvenient to use ethernet, for example when i was living in the dorms i was in a triple but we had to use a router because otherwise one of us won’t be able to go online, but now even when you guys got wifis and don’t need a port for router, one of the roommates still has to stay on wifi… plus draft n should be faster than the switches they give you, unless you paid for your own gigabyte switch…</p>
<p>plus i don’t get why people try to get the absolute maximum connection speed when it comes to online games, im running on a wireless g router thats 2 walls away from my room and im still able to play l4d2 with no lag at all (well i did have to put dd wrt on it to boost the xmit rating) </p>
<p>btw anyone else jump on the l4d2 deal for 6 bucks last week? :D</p>
<p>i had this problem with tf2, make sure that steam is in online mode and that you are logged in.</p>
<p>There’s too many variables that affect wireless connections for gaming. Also certain games take more bandwidth for online gaming. That’s why i usually recommend an ethernet cable for gaming. Also not all routers or wireless cards are created equal either. My ex-roommate had trouble over wireless playing starcraft in his room when the router was in the living room. Could have been the router or the card. I don’t know what kind of wireless routers the dorms use or if they have ones that have new the draft n tech. I know many of the libraries use netgear, but never bothered to get on top of chair to take a closer look. </p>
<p>What router did u use with dd-wrt? I have it on my old linksys wrt54g that lacks memory, so it crashes when there are too many bittorrent connections =/ . I’m currently shopping for a new one with a good amount of memory.</p>
<p>thats true, but its not like we are professional gamers, one or two disconnects won’t kill us 
i would assume dorms use draft n, since they already had wireless n speed my first year in dogwood, figured that after 3 years they didn’t go back down…</p>
<p>i use 2 linksys wrt54gv8 bridged together, seems to get the job done since we only have 3 people and none of us are hardcore bittorrenters, i play ffxiv and steam games, pretty much never got dced because of the wireless before</p>