(please read posts #115 and up) Internet keeps disconnecting when downloading games from steam?

[ClearlyCoding]

Whenever I start downloading a game from the store, my internet stops working. The little yellow triangle pops up next to the internet signal icon, and the internet ''connection is limited''. I already reinstalled steam. Didn't help. And it's not just one game, it's all of them. i can't download anything. Anyone has any tips on how to solve this?

Moderator note: this appears to be fixed or at least a simple workaround has been found, please read the posts indicated in the edited title.

[Kraedek]

I just got an LTE device here in the Philippines and the same thing happens it throttle to 2-4 MB then kills my connection. Anyone figure this out yet?

[Leon Teale]

guess there is no fix. i can sfely say this is steam causing this problem for me. as when i make sure steam is disconnected and then i reboot my router then the internet connects ujsut fine. for all devices on my network. once steam starts downloading then the internet goes off for everyone. both wireless and cabled. very strange,

[TirithRR]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Leon Teale:

guess there is no fix. i can sfely say this is steam causing this problem for me. as when i make sure steam is disconnected and then i reboot my router then the internet connects ujsut fine. for all devices on my network. once steam starts downloading then the internet goes off for everyone. both wireless and cabled. very strange,

Try getting a different router. One designed to handle media and gaming traffic. Steam is probably overloading the router because it's using so much bandwidth.

[ChachaMuchacha]

Yes

[Aeroman]

I also had the same problem and it was happening for me every single time that Steam wanted to update.
These didn't work for me:
- disabling IPV6
- disabling additional network card
- limiting the bandwidth limit
- re-installing Steam

I'm on a gigabit wired solid connection and was literally sick of the disconnection. Each time I had to disable and enable my network card and then after a short while that steam was running boom the same network problem.

Finally I though maybe there is a policy outside my computer. Maybe in the router or at cache server or somewhere in the network path. Something that says if he is trying to Steam disconnect him and let him steam!!!!

SOLUTION:
I used a VPN and everything works like a charm. In my case I used http://freevpn.me/

hope this helps.

[CLY]

Same happened to me and so far *Fingers Crossed* NetBalancer is working i had to cap my downloads to 3 MB/s so i still download pretty fast, but what happened to me was as soon as i hit download it would crash my internet all i did was just close stream, disconnect from my internet then connect back. But now i am downloading CS + Portal and it seems to be fine i will report back if it doesn't work. But as another user said - http://coltenrouska.hubpages.com/hub/Stop-Steam-From-Taking-All-of-The-Bandwidth# this made it work for me :) Good luck guys!!!

[MegnaGaming]

Same issue - why would a VPN solve this? I have a 60 Mbps download connection but Steam crashes the internet every time I hit 5Mbps download. I would be interested in trying the VPN solution, @Areoman can you provide more details on what you did?

[Halifax789]

Same issue. and mysterious. Ive been playing in steam for literally 10 years and a month ago same issue as OP started happening. Its definitely steam because i can watch you tube or stream all day, then as soon as I start downloading from steam my connection drops to zero. Happens about 50% of the time and oddly enough works fine other times. Its not my internet because I can be watching netflix on our Roku at the same time which doesnt even skip a frame.

[Blu]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย WASD | Regulator:

Seems like there's no official fix to this problem. I have it since setting up a connection in my room using the TP Link 300mbs wireless network adapter on a UK Virgin Media connection.

Note: Using an Ethernet cable removes this problem.
I found that the only solution apart from using a different network adapter or using an ethernet is to limit the bandwith with a program like NetBalancer, apart from that there's no fix and this problem is going back 4-5 years.

Here's why theres no fix. Gaben doesnt care. He doesnt care about user satisfaction. He just wants money. He doesnt care to fix the problems. Am I right?

[j4]

This is the biggest and most recent thread on the issue I found while struggling with it for a dozen hours so I'll post here.

Weird IT voodoo solution that worked for me:
change your wifi encryption from AES to TKIP

Hope it helps someone.

edit: note that other suggestions like throttling bandwidth didn't work for me.

[Catcher in the Wry]

well since I have a better solution that's easier, try mine, I saw on this thread to throttle the bandwidth, and that's what works. I started at 512 KB/s to try it, and it worked, bumped it up to 1 MB/s, that's my current max. I suggest playing around with it, like you're overclocking.

However, I have Verizon, so there's that.

[MegnaGaming]

I shouldn't need to buffer it, this is the only thing that causes my computer to disconnect from the internet. Sometimes after a few "disconnects then reconnects" it downloads fine at 5MB/s and other times it can't handle 512KB/s... It's garbage.

[Catcher in the Wry]

Well that's what worked for me, so that's all I can say.

[Billygoat]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย j4:

This is the biggest and most recent thread on the issue I found while struggling with it for a dozen hours so I'll post here.

Weird IT voodoo solution that worked for me:
change your wifi encryption from AES to TKIP

Hope it helps someone.

edit: note that other suggestions like throttling bandwidth didn't work for me.

This seems to have worked for me with TP-Link TL-WN822N (also Virgin Media and Super Hub 2, W7 x64). Max download speed is only ~2MB/s but at least it's stable.

Solutions which did not work:

- Throttling bandwidth
- Disabling IPV6

[Johannes w J]

Basicly.... your internet can't handle it.