As a big fan of TF2 it was absolutely crucial that when I moved to Mainland China (not Taiwan or Hong Kong) that I could play. I moved to a small city about 3 hours north of Hong Kong. When I attempted to connect I found that my ping to regions outside of the mainland were always terrible. I learned later it was a routing issue. Since Chinese telecoms have made it so expensive to route to the mainland, there are very few of these routes. Because of these routing issues, I was getting pings over 100 to a server in HK that was relatively very close. In America, where I am from, a server the same distance away would have produced pings of 30 or 40 at most. Luckily today I was introduced to a Chinese program for gamers that alleviates these routing issues. Using this program I have not only lowered my ping, but I have also increased the amount of available servers by over 1000.

I felt like this was a big deal so I am going to guide other English speaking expats on the mainland through the installation process. I don't speak any Mandarin, so I gotta give smeS a shoutout for the help.

[b]Here's the website[/b]: http://uu.163.com

Step 1: There is a big button that says "Free download".

Step 2:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/pb3cVFo.png[/img]
The first tick box is for the agreements and licensing. Keep that checked. The second box is for creating a desktop icon. The third box is for starting on boot up. After checking the right box, hit the blue oval.

Step 3:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/lusMIhB.png[/img]
Make sure you are on the "rocket ship" section of the sidebar. Click the square with the + sign in the middle of it.

Step 4:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xkrKuSf.png[/img]
Using the search bar, find TF2. Typing Team Fortress 2 won't work. Click that and wait for it to load up.

Step 5:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/8wLMw0r.png[/img]
Click the light blue bar underneath the box with Chinese characters inside of it.

Step 6:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/pSg78PZ.png[/img]
Click the center square in this picture.

Step 7:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Upl5Ko8.png[/img]
Click the link next to that tiny arrow.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/XDW3dqD.png[/img]

This is what it should look like. After this, go to TF2 and check your pings.
inb4 Chinese spyware and my computer is now part of a botnet.




[b]TO UNINSTALL:[/b]

1. Make sure the program is closed.
2. A dialogue will pop up giving you multiple boxes to check for why you chose to uninstall.
3. Click the top left one and hit the big light blue oval button. It should then uninstall.


edit: m4ngol apparently knew about this first and wanted tf.tv to know.