Virgin Media hosted STEAM Content server

orderoftheflame · 19 Aug 2011 at 15:00

DampCat said:
Link the sky one to the virgin forum. Branson will jump at any opportunity to out-do sky

Or for a more productive result, email the CEO of Virgin Media, Nick Berkett.

We popped him an email when we were having issues with installation crews not turning up. We had a reply back from him personally in less than a few hours and a crew round that afternoon getting us sorted.

I suspect a few well written emails about the benefits of this for his savings and his customers to him could get the ball rolling very quickly.

aln · 19 Aug 2011 at 15:37

WeOwnTheSky said:
I'm with VM 50meg, get top speeds all the time. Downloaded Portal 2 the other night in one go, no drops in speed and it's big download.

Most I get is 3MB, and thats with constant restarting of steam to achieve such speeds. Thats a far cry from the 12MB I can pull on usenet.

DampCat · 19 Aug 2011 at 15:39

orderoftheflame said:
Or for a more productive result, email the CEO of Virgin Media, Nick Berkett.

We popped him an email when we were having issues with installation crews not turning up. We had a reply back from him personally in less than a few hours and a crew round that afternoon getting us sorted.

I suspect a few well written emails about the benefits of this for his savings and his customers to him could get the ball rolling very quickly.

Throw me an email address and i'll get it done!

Sin_Chase · 19 Aug 2011 at 15:48

1 stumbling block:

Provide a remote desktop username and password into the machine with admin privileges.

Security risk. Unlikely to get past approval stage.

Gimpymoo · 19 Aug 2011 at 16:09

Sin_Chase said:
1 stumbling block:

Security risk. Unlikely to get past approval stage.

No reason why giving Valve access to one terminal means they have access to the whole network.

Lots of other ISP's do it.

orderoftheflame · 19 Aug 2011 at 16:11

DampCat said:
Throw me an email address and i'll get it done!

Neil.Berkett at virginmedia.co.uk

Sin_Chase said:
1 stumbling block:

Security risk. Unlikely to get past approval stage.

It doesn't have to be if configured and networked correctly. :confused:

Sin_Chase · 19 Aug 2011 at 16:23

Unfortunately auditors don't often see it that way

orderoftheflame · 19 Aug 2011 at 16:42

Sin_Chase said:
Unfortunately auditors don't often see it that way

I think you're underestimating them somewhat. :confused:

They'll have leagues of technical engineers and experts that know their stuff to advise on things like this. It's not one bloke hopeless sitting on a pile of cash shouting "Do what with my network!?" that would make a decision.

LeJosh · 19 Aug 2011 at 16:47

orderoftheflame said:
I think you're underestimating them somewhat.

They'll have leagues of technical engineers and experts that know their stuff to advise on things like this. It's not one bloke hopeless sitting on a pile of cash shouting "Do what with my network!?" that would make a decision.

Citation needed!

King Damager · 19 Aug 2011 at 16:59

Will be a VM customer in a couple of months! Would love it if they implemented this!

kd

Gimpymoo · 17 Feb 2012 at 02:01

Well, over a year since the original post, a forum rep posted this towards the end of December:

PatrickF (Forum Team) said:
Hi,

Unfortunately we've not anything else regarding this since the 'update' to tell you we hadn't heard anything It would, however, appear that the idea of a dedicated server is being entertained by multiple ISPs so I doubt it is far off to be honest.

I apologise I cant help any further at this time.

Kind Regards,

Patrick

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...hosted-STEAM-Content-server/m-p/933039#M26096

jakspyder · 17 Feb 2012 at 02:04

That is not a no!

We might get one yet, iv noticed steam speeds being pretty poor now days when compared with other alternatives such as origin. Steam used to always max my 50mb connection but now it rarely does half the speed it used to.

LeJosh · 17 Feb 2012 at 02:04

I guess English isn't his first language...

JimAroo · 20 Apr 2012 at 17:55

An update regarding this..

Sorry about the lack of news here, the short story is that we've repeatedly tried to get in contact with Valve about this but they've not replied to us. So we're not able to take this idea any further unfortunately.

Thanks

Followed by..

Yes, we've tried that several times but had no response and likewise had no response from several other attempts to contact them about this. And while ringing their offices was worth it to listen to their very entertaining answering machine message we didn't get any response from that either.

Thanks

So basically VM have attempted to push this forward but have been ignored by Steam.. which I find a little hard to believe. It's looking we will never get our own Steam content server.

Link to thread: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5...osted-STEAM-Content-server/m-p/1139683#M31175

Devlish · 20 Apr 2012 at 18:05

Any steam forums you could post that to? Would be interesting to see an official response.

JimAroo · 20 Apr 2012 at 18:33

Sleepless said:
Any steam forums you could post that to? Would be interesting to see an official response.

Good idea, created a thread here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=30396944#post30396944

Be interesting to see Valves response.

Gimpymoo · 20 Apr 2012 at 19:10

Such a shame if true.

If it is true, then what are Valve playing at?

orderoftheflame · 20 Apr 2012 at 19:24

Might be worth someone emailing Gabe directly. If he can sort out someone that's had a bit of a paypal kerfuffle in a matter of minutes, something that could be an actual benefit to the company should get a response as well.

Marky · 20 Apr 2012 at 20:52

Shame that Valve haven't responded...

As orderoftheflame said, they should contact Gabe personally as he has responded to a few people in the past

Gimpymoo · 20 Apr 2012 at 21:24

L_A said:
Why am I 100% sure they call them while it's night at Bellevue, Washington

Made me LOL.

If Virgin are telling porkies, this is going to blow up for them big time.

I will send an old fashioned letter to Gabe, always wanted a reason to send him a letter - lol.

For anyone interested, the email Virgin should have contacted is [email protected]