Steam Link not connecting over Campus WIFI

[Golden Spider]

Hi there, I just received my steam Link and controller in the mail and am trying to get it hooked up, my steam link has successfully connected to the WiFi on my campus, as I am a college student, it update and is completely up to date, as is steam on my PC which is connected to the same WiFi, but my steam link cannot find my computer, I disconnected my link's power and did a hard cycle, but that is all I can do as it is my campus's WiFi and I don't have access to the router, I could possible do an ethernet connection for the link but I would have to order a cord, the one that came with it is not long enough, before I do that. any ideas to fix? Thanks!

[ImperialChaos]

I wouldn't recommend this tbh.

On my personal WiFi with the Link running full tilt it fills available bandwidth like no-ones business and actually makes it hard to use any other devices with my router.

Doing this on shared WiFi could possibly shut other people out from being able to connect or use Internet which might be bad news if people start reporting that.

What I'd do, if the PC isn't too far away, is get a long Ethernet cable and/or cables and a hub to connect them up directly. Another possiblity is to get your own Wireless router to connect the PC or Link via WiFi and the other via Ethernet.

[Saxopwn]

Yeah, this almost definitely won't work. Your campus network administrators are going to have the required ports closed.

[Sjors]

I don't think that the steam link supports RADIUS authorization. Which is required by eduroam(Source: I work in education & The IT).

[Golden Spider]

Im not using Eduroam, im using the standard wifi that all the other things such as PS4, Amazon firesticks etc use.

[Corruptinator]

I'm not sure if you tried this or not but I've happened to found an alternate way to connect to Steam Link:

Try connecting the Ethernet ports between the Steam Link and the PC, NO ROUTERS!

It worked for me when I connected the ethernet cable between the two without using the router, wireless is still recommended for internet connection.