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

  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

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