Steam downloads will not start

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
Steam-limiter hasn't been working for myself and all of the dozen-or-so people 
I've so far checked with in my district (Dalby-Chinchilla-Miles area, 
Queensland, (about 3 hours inland from Brisbane)) for the last three weeks or 
more.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
-Expected: Steam downloads to be unmetered
-Actual result: Steam downloads fail to start

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
-Steam-limiter 0.7.1.0 (same as for the last year or so)
-Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit)

Please provide any additional information below.
According to my motherboard utility xFastlan, the only connection steam is 
currently making is to the ip 103.10.125.16 (A server owned by valve, operating 
in Hongkong).  Before steam-limiter stopped working, I wrote down the IP 
203.39.198.136- the address through which steam games were downloading.  This 
IP is apparently unreachable, according to multiple different sites:
-http://ip-lookup.net/index.php
-http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/203.39.198.136
And is confirmed to belong to Telstra by:
-http://dig.whois.com.au/whois.php?dom=203.39.198.136&submit=WHOIS+Lookup
-http://www.iplocation.net/
-http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/203.39.198.136

Original issue reported on code.google.com by randyy...@gmail.com on 2 Nov 2014 at 4:20

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Yeah, mine hasn't been working either.

I have to close limiter down in order for downloads to work, and so it is 
metered :(

Original comment by mjm...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2014 at 2:07

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I don't see a mention of what your ISP is. If your ISP is Telstra, then the 
problem is that just recently they shut down their Steam server and no longer 
have any support for unmetered anything, per Issue 35.

Telstra did announce that their entirely pointless Gamearena website and game 
servers were hosting, but the fate of the Steam downloads were not clear. 
However, it did end up going away at the same time as the Gamearena site 
shutdown and evidently shutting down all unmetering was intended by Telstra 
even though they didn't make that clear until after it had happened.

See https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2233936&p=12#r223 which 
references 
http://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/Games/Steam/m-p/388079/highlight/false#M49

Original comment by nigel.bree@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2014 at 3:52

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Thanks :), that explains a lot, it is Telstra.

What a pain, I don't suppose you know of any other NZ ISPs offering unmetered 
downloads for Steam?

Original comment by mjm...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2014 at 4:29