oskar Sep 17, 2021 @ 10:18am
Port Forwarding & Steam Downloads
To everyone reading, this is not a cry for help, just me trying to help people trying to find a solution to steam downloads pausing on the internet and hoping that they might come across this thread.

Backstory: A month or so ago, I called my ISP and asked them to enable port-forwarding for my IP, and I started doing my thing. Hosting game server, websites etc. It went all smoothly, until I decided to reset my PC. I had to download all my steam games again, but they download kept pausing and corrupting. I was looking for a solution for hours, but couldn't find anything. Then I came across this. Apparently, steam downloads corrupt if you port-forwarded for the local IP of the PC you're trying to download on.

If you're having trouble downloading as I did, just do the following:
(If you port-forwarded you should already know this but I'll mention all the steps just in case you followed a tutorial before.

1. Go to your default gateway, to do that, go to the command prompt and type "ipconfig".
2. Now you got the local IP of the router ending in 1. Go ahead and put it in your browser.
3. Now log in to your router, you can find a list of common user-pass combinations here[www.softwaretestinghelp.com].
4. Now go to the Advanced tab, and then Port-Forwarding.
5. Finally, disable all the port forwarding you made, there is usually a drop-down menu where you can choose enabled/disabled.

There you go, now you can try downloading your favorite steam games!
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Iceira Sep 17, 2021 @ 10:27am 
Are You have issue what is a gateway and what is local ip-adr if gateway is 1 then pc can never be same. or typo here, that can explan alot.
Last edited by Iceira; Sep 17, 2021 @ 10:27am
oskar Sep 18, 2021 @ 9:02am 
I think it is a language barrier. As I said, Local IP OF THE ROUTER. You have routers's local IP, which ends with 1. PC's local IP, that ends with any number 2-256. And router's public IP, which if you type on any browser, and any device connected to that same internet "what's my ip", it is always going to be the same, that is why it is router's, and it is public, because others can communicate with it. Unlike the local IP, it doesn't start with 192.
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Date Posted: Sep 17, 2021 @ 10:18am
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