Hi @pharesim, Congrats on fixing the issue and coming up with it. There are at least 3 people who have been trying for the last 2 weeks to join Steemit through traditional method but in vain, so, they asked me to help them. I've already helped several with their bandwidth issues and a week ago, I helped some join Steemit through an alternate method that I intend to document so that it helps others. As per my Maths, this method seems expensive. Do you have a discord?