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MovedGoalPosts · 19-02-2005, 14:52

Difficult to say, but it's possible that your system is trying to make too many simultaneous connections. Many who uses P2P software see this issue. Somehow, it may be that your steam search program (I have never tried it so don't know) is making connections and trying to maintain thos connections to each of the 1000 servers, even though you only want one. A refresh then overloads your router / ntl (I assume you have a cable modem not STB). It's to do with the upstream path. Somehow you need to reduce the number of connections steam makes / maintains.

and BTW you may wish to consider ugrade to M$ Win XP 2. Won't solve this problem, but it's always sensible IMO to run fully patched software.

19-02-2005, 14:52	#2
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Router blocks all new connections. Difficult to say, but it's possible that your system is trying to make too many simultaneous connections. Many who uses P2P software see this issue. Somehow, it may be that your steam search program (I have never tried it so don't know) is making connections and trying to maintain thos connections to each of the 1000 servers, even though you only want one. A refresh then overloads your router / ntl (I assume you have a cable modem not STB). It's to do with the upstream path. Somehow you need to reduce the number of connections steam makes / maintains. and BTW you may wish to consider ugrade to M$ Win XP 2. Won't solve this problem, but it's always sensible IMO to run fully patched software.