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Apparently they're working on a system based on geographical location, this
has been discussed before, though...by myself and a few others, due to our
2xx IP's being so far down in the list :)

No idea on ETA though, we'll have to see if Alfred can give us a heads-up.

On 6/14/07, Caesar Engroba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hello Everyone!
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> I seemed to have found something interesting and I'm wondering If other
> people have noticed or if it's just me...
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> The problem began when users were complaining of no one joining their
> servers, which I believed to be normal when a new server was created and
> just put on the Valve master list. These things just take time.  Right?
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> However, upon further investigation I began to notice users who had an
> IP Address of 7X.X.X.X where a lot more popular fairly quick compared to
> others with different IPs (Such as 204.X.X.X or 216.X.X.X, etc) I fired
> up Steam and refreshed my list, sure enough the first 1000 or so started
> with the ip of 7X.X.X.X!! Now, I know not all of them start with a 7 but
> the majority of them do.
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> I asked some of my friends located in different parts of the country
> (USA) and they reported the same! This can't be a coincidence.
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> This clearly puts anyone with a different IP to a disadvantage. Out of
> (Millions?) of users that use Steam to browse for CS, CS Source, etc
> games who actually goes and Sorts their game servers? I do however I can
> assure you most people don't, they just want to browse and find a game
> quick.
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> I am interested in what other people think about this, maybe with enough
> commotion we can get valve to fix this...
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> Thanks!
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> PS. If this issue has already been discussed please forgive me, I
> quickly skimmed through the mailing list and found nothing related.
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> Caesar Engroba
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