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Internet dies when downloading from Steam (self.steam)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kuro to c/[email protected]

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I've had a weird issue with Steam lately.

Whenever I go to download a game on my pc, it will download fine, but I will lose internet for everything else on my network until the download is complete or I stop the download.

At first I thought this might be an issue with my ISP, but this doesn't happen when downloading a game from my Steamdeck.

Anyone have any fixes for this?

Here is a speedtest if this helps at all: https://www.speedtest.net/result/15012239449

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rare, but it could be a nat table exhaustion. My old 'commander' modem would do the same thing if I opened a bittorrent client.

Try a free or trial VPN like tunnelbear to see if this is the cause. It's probably not, but it's one more thing you can try.

[–] Kuro 2 points 1 year ago

You might be onto something there, doesn't seem to be happening when connected to a VPN