"steam servers down for routine matience" problem and web issues.

[i love scrat baby!]

Very friquently when playing games, my steam goes offline. The same old Servers down for matience message appears, but I check steamgaug.es and they are working fine. I go to steam community on my browser, and when I open the page there is the Question mark profile picture for new users. When My steam client comes back online, the page reloads and my profile in browser returns to normal.

Im not sure if my steam is glitching, or if my account is at risk. Please help!

[Sola]

So, anyone have a fix for this situation yet? It's getting rather annoying..

[dancodan]

Same here.

Started recently (a few days ago). Me and my friend (In sweden) keep dropping out of steam, and automaticly reconnect after a few minutes.
The friendlist disapear and the status is set to offline with the message that the servers are currently undergoing maintenance.

After a few minutes it kicks back and we can play together again (Dying light).
After 20-30 minutes it happens again, and repeats a few times.

It always start at 23.00 CET (11 pm)
Seems that maybe this is the time that US players log on and the steam servers are overloaded. But it really messes up out coop experience when everyone is continiously kicked out every 20 minutes.

Thanks in advance for any feedback

Regards
Daniel

[dancodan]

Btw.
We are several ppl having the same issue.
I have a new PC, no programs installed yet (except windows update, nvidia drivers et cetera). I have ran a complete virus scan, I have restarted my rounter.
Also worth noting is that I have forwarded the steam ports in the router, and during the "steam crash" I have full internet connection. (Tried it with an online broadband check at 3 different occations)

[i love scrat baby!]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TuComix:

Same for me here. It starts 2 days ago.

It might be a server problem seeing we 3 have experienced simalar symtopms in the same timeframe

[dancodan]

Just played with my friend. I lost connection 2 times, and he lost it one time. Same time as usuall (11 pm CET)

[dancodan]

(We are located in different parts of sweden, with different ISP)

[TTV SleepyMonoVT]

Alright, I am going to list some things you need to check for to make sure everything is fine, this is truly a lost issue for the User Forum and if we cannot do anything you'll need to take it up with Steam Support. We've got enough posts here about other people suffering the issue, and not actually commenting advice...

• Reboot router.
  
• Troubleshoot your network.
  
• Make sure you do not have a VPN active. (Hamachi, Evolve, any programs that give you another IP)
  
• Make sure no other devices have the same IP address as you.
  
• Ensure you have a stable internet speed and connection with Steam.

These are not guaranteed to work, but they are better than nothing. I suggest everyone here submits a ticket to Steam Support regarding the issue. https://support.steampowered.com/newticket.php?category=

[dancodan]

"Router rebooted and even switched to a brand new one.
"Network is scanned with AVAST and also no implications on trouble in 192.168.1.1. Furthermore no implications of network failure on any other applications (Samsung smart TV, App-TV, Playstation, Iphone, Ipad et cetera) Which are all connected to the same network.
"No VPN active. Freshly formated and re-installed computor. Did 2 virus scans, one complete one start up.
No conflicting IP adresses when I check which IP-adresses my router is selecting. (dynamic IP)
Connection is 12mbit down, 10 mbit up. Constantly. (Used bredbandskollen.se)

I wont submit a ticket to steam. They have never helped in the past. And I wont waste my time with them again.
It is clearly not in their interest to actually get involved in these issues

I am pretty sure that it's an overload in traffic on their side.
They have a nominal value of servers to handle the load of players logging on. During peak hours some of us lose connection momentarily.
This is something that they really cant do anything about, if they don't want to set up more servers.
This is a choice they have made higher up in the hierarchy and it's based on in/out $$$.

[TTV SleepyMonoVT]

I'll just assume you're right in that case, you can always suggest it to Valve to help decrease the amount of user complaints from Sweden.

[a razor named qualia]

Isn't it possible they are doing maintenence on the servers?

[dancodan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Variant:

Isn't it possible they are doing maintenence on the servers?

It seems odd that they would make a sudden maintenance, and then activate them again within 3 minutes.
To start a new maintenance after a few minutes, to then activate them again.
That does not make sense.

Usually companies does the maintenance during low populated hours. That would be roughly 3-6 hours after.

TuComix- Yea, I think there are several thousand more experiencing this. But it only effects ppl who is using the friendslist to play games. Counter strike for example is not effected when this happens. You are still in your match.

Thus, these people aren't complaining here (yet).

I am positive that this is on their end, seeing that people all over Sweden are experiencing the same thing during the same period of time.

[i love scrat baby!]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από dancodan:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Variant:

Isn't it possible they are doing maintenence on the servers?

It seems odd that they would make a sudden maintenance, and then activate them again within 3 minutes.
To start a new maintenance after a few minutes, to then activate them again.
That does not make sense.

Usually companies does the maintenance during low populated hours. That would be roughly 3-6 hours after.

TuComix- Yea, I think there are several thousand more experiencing this. But it only effects ppl who is using the friendslist to play games. Counter strike for example is not effected when this happens. You are still in your match.

Thus, these people aren't complaining here (yet).

I am positive that this is on their end, seeing that people all over Sweden are experiencing the same thing during the same period of time.

I dont think they are doing any matience, Whenever its down for me I check steamgaug.es to see if its down, and my friends always tell me they noticed no problem

[Sola]

It's definitely something with the updates of steam, I believe.