Steam loses connection

[8Kuula]

Loses connection and do not even try to reconnect. Just sits there and saying "NO CONNECTION".
Well, reconnect?

[fredreed2000]

Are you able to get online to the Internet and make sure that your modem is working OK?

[x_wing]

Originally posted by 8Kuula:

Yes, I am. Internet works just fine. Steam client just loses connection.

Does this happen after you go out of a system suspension?

[Cat on Linux]

yes, it can drop your connection if you played game or if your internet connection is unstable. I have this issue every time I play game for longer than 20-30 minutes. solution: close steam app and open it again, it should look for your network on boot.

[fredreed2000]

My other question is what operating system are you running? Does It say at the bottom of steam no connection because If your running windows that might be the problem?

[fredreed2000]

I get this error all the time on windows 10 and I what is do I keep closing steam down and when I see my wishlist come up then I know everything is loaded in steam. Now If your wishlist never appears then I would contact the steam support ASAP.

[x_wing]

I only have a similar problem when starting my machine from a suspension. From my point of view, there is some timeout/keepalive feature that doesn't work very well on the client (my connection eventually is restarted, but takes ~10 minutes). BTW, I've tried to inject a RST packets to what I think is the tcp connection that gives problems but I didn't have any luck doing so :/

Maybe we should ask for a way to force a login/re-connection of the account without having to restart the client?

[Aoi Blue]

I've found that the Linux steam client has trouble reconnecting automatically after a minor network disruption. I suspect this is what you are experiencing.

I wish I had a solution for you beyond quitting steam and reloading.

[fredreed2000]

Steam servers aren't the best and I do quite often have issues when I play a game It tries to connect to the cloud or their servers and It fails but If I do again It connects. It would be nice If steam could have better servers then they have right now. I think that this is a lot of their problems It's their servers.

[ilenisaatio]

I kept losing connection as well with the network icon becoming a question mark despite saying it was connected. The solution on my Ubuntu at least, was to go:

Settings -> Privacy -> Connectivity Checking

and switch it OFF and then restarted my connection. Stopped losing connectiong from that point onwards.

[Marlock]

Originally posted by ilemies:

I kept losing connection as well with the network icon becoming a question mark despite saying it was connected. The solution on my Ubuntu at least, was to go:

Settings -> Privacy -> Connectivity Checking

and switch it OFF and then restarted my connection. Stopped losing connectiong from that point onwards.

so Ubuntu's captive-portal / internet-health detection routine was somehow interfering with Steam's connectivity?!

that's quite intriguing, to say the least!

[ilenisaatio]

Apparently yeah. Go figure. I asked around a bit as it seemes to be a common enough problem. A friend said this helped her:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/954236/wired-network-connection-keeps-dropping-out-dual-boot

Might be worth checking out if the above doesn't work. If nothing else, I found out my MTUs were a bit smaller than possible.

I hope these'll help people struggling with this.