All Discussions > Steam Forums > Help and Tips > Topic Details

DenJu Oct 24, 2018 @ 2:37pm

Network blocks Steam downloads

So basically my internet provider told me that some websites are blocked by the network itself. To this day I have been using VPN for downloading stuff on steam. I can play every game on steam but i can't download anything, so if a new update comes out i have to turn on my VPN and download it. My provider told me that if I can give him a list of the blocked sites (or site-IPs) he can manage this for me and unblock some of them but I really don't know which URLs and IPs are in charge of the steam download section. If you guys could give me the URLs that would be amazing.
If you can provide me some help, pls message me or comment this.
Thanks, DenJu

Something went wrong while displaying this content. Refresh

Error Reference: Community_9708323_

Loading CSS chunk 7561 failed.
(error: https://community.fastly.steamstatic.com/public/css/applications/community/communityawardsapp.css?contenthash=789dd1fbdb6c6b5c773d)

Showing 1-8 of 8 comments

ReBoot Oct 24, 2018 @ 2:48pm

The people working at your ISP are morons. Their answer implies that the simply have blocked a couple tons of IPs just for the lulz. If they knew what they're doing, they'd know what IPs they blocked that are used by Steam because they'd have blocked them knowing what they are and not "Hey, it's an IP, let's block it".

Of course, all of this doesn't really help. You can help yourself though. Get a copy of Microsoft Network Monitor and monitor the Steam process. You'll see all IPs it connects to.

Still, if the people working at your ISP are brainless idiots, maybe, just maybe, that may add to the list of reasons to switch (another one being them blocking absolutely legit traffic for the lulz in the first place).

Poppi !! Oct 24, 2018 @ 2:54pm

Man...what kind of facist nightmare are you living in ?

I'll 2nd Reboots reply ~ they're idiots effing with their customers because they can. I feel for that situation.

DenJu Oct 25, 2018 @ 5:29am

Thanks guys! :)

Asteroid ☄ Oct 25, 2018 @ 6:25am

Hi bro I met that issue before and I fixed it by modify download settings.

Steam > Settings > Download > Download Area, change the default location, e.g. USA>UK
Save and restart Steam, wait a few mins and my game updates auto start downloading.

Not sure if that helps.