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My downloads from Steam stop every few minutes,

It sounds like a problem with Steam or your internet connection. Does your
whole internet stop working, or just the Steam client?

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"ubudeco" <ubudeco@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dustin Harper" <dharper@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:701614CD-C017-43B8-95B0-E1014C47E49E@xxxxxx Happens with me sometime too, I just right click on the steam icon in your
toolbar, Click Exit then start the program again and it'll continue from
where it left off.

Could be the Steam servers, could be your ISP. Some [assy] ISPs will drop
long downloads. It's a network timing thing, and usually not intentional.
Update your router Firmware, whenever I used to get that problem updating
the firmware usually fixed a lot of those problems. Good luck.

-A.

It is only Steam that stops and my Internet connection keeps going. I have
had no other problems downloading.

Why not contact their support and find out what is going on? If your
Internet connection continues to function otherwise, guess where the problem
is happening?
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"ubudeco" <ubudeco@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"ubudeco" <ubudeco@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:30EEFE8E-6B48-4D6B-A531-0320CFA918D3@xxxxxx What I said before still holds true, restart steam, should fix the problem.
Just because Steam fails and no other Internet applications fail does not
elliminate your ISP or router as the problem.

Example, I used to play EverQuest a lot, when I first got a router I would
get disconnected every 8 minutes, like clockwork. I did some exploring,
turns out my ISPs TTL (Time Til Latency, I believe) was too low, and after 8
minutes the connection to the game "reset" causing me to disconnect. I could
connect again, but obivously a game where you can play for hours at a time,
having this issue really sucked.

Friend suggested I update my router firmware. I didn't know that could be
done at the time, but found an update at linksys.com, and it fixed the
problem, or the router was able to deal with whatever the ISP was doing that
caused me to disconnect.

Games on the Internet are really weird. I mean the Internet was NOT
designed with gaming in mind. The fact that it works at all is a result of
brute force coding and the fact that the internet network has these massive
data backbones that can move tons of data really quickly.

Like I said, update your firmware and your system drivers, talk to your ISP,
or just restart Steam when it disconnects.

-A.