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Posted by Wasted on 11/12/05 00:14
For the benefit of the tape Colin Wilson muttered....
> Anyone still play Half Life here ?
>
> I haven't been able to connect for days since the last Steam update /
> reboot - it prompts for a username and password, then says it can`t
> lot in. Entering the wrong user info returns an error, so its
> definitely connecting to their server.
>
> Valve are fairly effectively ignoring the multitude of posts on the
> forums on their site, and are effectively ignoring support tickets.
>
> I reported this on 8th Nov, others have been reporting problems going
> back to 6th Nov and earlier.
>
> I have a second PC which was a clean install as of two weeks ago, and
> after running a couple of speed comparison tests its been unused
> since. After hitting the problem on my main machine I tried the other
> box - once Steam updates itself it throws up the same network error
> message.
>
> I`ve also clean-installed, DMZ`d the router, enabled port forwarding
> (which I haven`t needed in the 3 years since I bought the router), and
> tried every combination of the above.
>
> I`m convinced its Steam at fault.
I still play Half Life (well the Team Fortress Classic mod) and Steam has
been updating fine for me, there has been a few updates in the past week,
and one or two hung and needed a restart but they installed fine. Its not
Steam that is at fault, there must be something else.
--
Mat
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