I have created a LAN on Hamachi for those who prefer to use LAN games and Direct Host rather than use the often troublesome online browser. The details are as follows...

network name: sc.steam
password: sc

For those who don't know about Hamachi, it is a free piece of software for hosting securely encrypted virtual LANs across the internet. It can be downloaded here...

https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en

Major Tom