Is Steam allowed in your University?

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You can always use VPN, so ...
I would even add that it is recommended in public places, such as university, to use such a service.

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I can't imagine why it wouldn't be. Especially if it's your own personal computer. There's no illegal activity involved with Steam, and there are plenty of programs that can use a lot of bandwidth

Should work.
Steam is a safe retailer. although, the amount of "naughty" games is increasing...

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I highly doubt any uni anywhere would allow Steam client on their study machines. On the other hand, if they have wifi or Ethernet wall sockets, it is unlikely they would filter out Steam…

My university would flag your account if you started doing big downloads (in particular if they were using something similar to torrents, actually any form of "torrent" type download would get you banned from using their connection).
That is for the main campus internet, in the dorms they did not have such restrictions.

On my personal laptop - no problem!

Nah, we have a strict anti-vapour policies in place.

You need an 'Other' option. Because for some inexplicable reason since this semester started for me, I can login and download and play games, but...STEAM COMMUNITY REFUSES TO WORK >.>

(and by "refuses to work", i mean it won't let me stay logged in...)

you can't log into steam at my colleage, but you can download and play games just fine if you logged in elsewhere first and then went to the colleage wifi

You can't access it on my university connection but if you use the school VPN (and I imagine other VPNs) you can get on and use it like normal.

My first university did in fact block everything, which wasn't a browser and they had some strange filters in place. However in my second university, where I did my master degree, they didn't care at all, and I was even playing games from time to time during lectures.

In the school PC's no because Steam is associated with games. As for whether you can connect from your own computer don't know because I never tried :D

if I recall, on EDUROAM it works fine
It's a network/internet common to several universities. Torrents work well too. (They can be used for legal stuff, don't judge)

In UNI no ones' gonna care about what you do or don't, you're your boss for a while now, it's all up to you.

On accommodations and similar might vary I guess.

I think colleges rarely block steam or really any site at all(at least mine doesn't). Workplaces in the other hand tend to block access to anything that can be considered a "distraction", hence why I'm using my phone instead of one of the PCs.

Half of the people in my courses (min!) are regulary playing Hearthstone, CSGO, Dota and are using Steam while the prof is holding a speech, so you should be fine. But don't expect the connection to be that great.

nothing blocked in our univ, torrents, porn, hentai, you name it. We even have a gaming room where steam is installed and you can borrow gaming peripherals if you want

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My University does not block Steam, but unless your U has a direct inter-connect to the Steam network you would be unlikely to see speeds any faster than good broadband connections. I just checked and the peak download speed was 20MB/sec

Why it won't be allowed? seems ridiculous. Only bad thing is that internet sucks, so download games if you like it will take ages, so you have to have the games already downloaded from home.

At mine only basic ports are enabled so you can use it only via browser, the client uses different ones so it doesn't work. You can use it offline though =P
Being a big university the had to do it or the net would have been saturated and unusable.

Also, think there's a typo in a poll's option.. should be "I can log in but I can't play or download"

Once i saw at University, that i won a game here.
Wanted to login to Steam with my Laptop so i can activate it, but couldn't.
Had to wait until i was back home.