AVAST messing with SteamLink - 2 ways to fix it

[Vierzig]

hey fellas I been ♥♥♥♥♥♥ arround with this for a few days now and found few bits and pieces on this forum and other forums and finally got a to a point were my steamlink can connect to my computer which runs avast without disabling the firewall - since that kinda defeats the purpose right?
anyway I thought I just post what I found in case some other lost souls are embarking on the same journey that i just completlede.
now first things first avast is GARBAGE and if i hadnt paid few $$ for the service for the year id simply get rid of it. having said that these things tend to fix it for certain ppl
1# from the first screnn u click on protection (little padlock on the left) than click on application settings (bottom right) look up steam client bootstrapper - click on PACKET RULES and there you will find 3 things, internet out internet in and efault the first two should be set to allow tcp/udp and out/in respectively and no need on your part do do anything.
the 3rd one default under ACTION might have it set to auto-decide - change that to allow
than click on OK (in green) on the bottom right corner...and dont X out like i did about 2 dozen times....
now for many ppl that seems to be the end of it and godspeed to you.
for me it unfortunately wasnt since it turns out when i first connected to my home network I must have told avast that it was a public network or it defaulted to that setting I dont know/ remember
2# To change that you go back to the main screen with all the little widgets that are more of a roadblock than helpfull and click on setting (bottom left corner)
than you click on components scroll down till u get to FIREWALL click customize and than look for Network profiles - there you should see in BOLD the network you are currently connected to with a dropdown menu next to it - assuming its a save network ensure it says PRIVATE, somehow that seems to make the entire antivirus software from avast A LOT more laid back - no clue if that opens you to issues on other ends but at least I can stream SWTOR now to my link without haivng to disable the firewall, hope that helps

[apostrof]

Thank you, this was really helpful, after half an hour I found out that Avast is the troublemaker, so I just turned off the firewall. But thanks to you I just switched to Private network and it is all good. Activated Avast only coz I got free code for a year-long license.

[Jowy]

Thanks you A LOT!
i follow the steps and all works nice again =)

[Nintendroid]

Thank you! This has resolved my issue. Valve should include this on their help page.

[bledcarrot]

Thanks man, this did the trick. Was messing around with this for ages! It was the 'set to private' that did it for me. Cheers.

[wojnarabc]

Thanks, setting network profile to private solved the problem on my end