To Make Steam Work

[smilodon]

Except where you're wrong obviously

[JB]

Right i'm seriously fecked off with steam now as i aint had a decent game of cs in about 2 weeks.  All i'm getting is the 'check your internet connection' message time and time again.  Has anyone had this message and managed to get rid of it?  Has anyone had any success with solving any of steam's problems?

Please let the rest of us know.

Btw.  Ayia Napa is 1 seriously good place to go on holiday, be you young, old, single or married.

[Anonymous]

it seems to happen when the server you are tryin to authenticate with is is either down or overloaded. I think it is a case of keep trying

[A Twig]

http://forum.deadmen.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3082

If you ahve probs signing in...  
Worked for me I kept getting master server failure until I logged in one afternoon bot 3pm, been great since then

[JB]

I read somewhere that steam were limiting connection's to their server's by the i.p.  I.e, letting those with lower ip's connect first and blocking those with higher ip's, then slowly highering the low ip limit so eventually everyone will be able to use it.  It's some kinda way of limiting the number of people overloading the system.  Sounds like total BS to me, but i'm damned if i can find again where i read it.