Steam server problems

KillCrazy

Active Member
I decided to make this into a seperate thread from the TF2 thread I posted in originally, as perhaps one of you lovely people could help me. Most of this has been copied straight from my original post.

Ever since my dad purchased a BT Home Hub, I have had the following problem with steam. It occurs when trying to join a multiplayer server on pretty much every game you can play on steam.

On joining a server for the first time, I am disconnected within about 20 seconds, and I can't rejoin the server until my name disappears in the list, as I still seem to be in the server. I sit there refreshing until my name disappears so I can join again, and I can play and rejoin other servers fine for the rest of the day. If I try to join another server after being kicked from the first one, I get the same problem until I wait for my name to disappear and rejoin. Lately, it's been taking longer and longer for my name to time out in servers, causing me to wait longer till I can play.

Any help is greatly appreciated, and plenty of rep will be available :)
 

KillCrazy

Active Member
I don't know what you mean by power cycle? I have no direct access to the router, I can only request to my dad that he changes settings.
 

KillCrazy

Active Member
I'm unsure, I'll need to wait and ask my dad when he gets home. As I said in response to Ronin Storm, I don't have access to the router, only my dad.

Any port forwarding to me goes to my old computer, and the PC I use is connected directly via ethernet to that computer. It shares the internet to this one, so any ports that are forwarded won't work on the PC I use.
 

KillCrazy

Active Member
I haven't tried this. If I did I would probably be hung, drawn and quartered by my dad. Any problems I present to him are met with the immediate answer that it's my fault and I should just stop doing it.

The router has had problems in the past where it would restart whenever I tried to join a server over steam, but that seemed to be fixed in an update for the router. It does still on occasion restart when I use bit torrent.
 

Ronin Storm

Administrator
Staff member
It does still on occasion restart when I use bit torrent.

In that particular case, you're probably over running the number of connections the router can handle and it just gives up and falls over. BitTorrent is a heavy hitter in that regard.
 

KillCrazy

Active Member
Yeah, that was my theory. It's upsetting though that we go from one perfectly good router that could handle it (and also had more capabilities and configurations) to a BT router that's been nothing but trouble since we got it.
 
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elDiablo

Guest
...BT router...

Woo! You're using a BT HomeHub thingy? Got to say, I hate them. They have been nothing but trouble while working at Introversion, trying to get Multiwinia working over it, and that's just using UDP (connectionless, ie, fire and forget style packet routing) packets!

I'd do through every setting you have in there against an online tutorial and see if you can't find something tasty to do.
 

Iron_fist

Super Moderator
Staff member
i had problems with this and found that changing the tcp and udp timout settings (using telnet 192.168.1.254 and changing it in there) helped, though as your connection is being shared through another computer then that is almost certainly the source of your problem look into how to change the connection timeout settings in the windows registry as i have done it on a machine running 2k before so it'll most likely still be there in XP
 
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