Posted this on Steam support forums but no response yet.

"Lately my Steam has been having issues, that had my internet not been working perfectly in every other application, I would have blamed on my connection. But the issue seems most likely to be with Steam.

Whenever I try to start up Steam, I usually have to retry my connection for upwards of 30 minutes before I can get it to successfully connect.

Then once in Steam, friends works fine, but no servers will show up on my server list. In game and not in game.

When servers do show up, I cannot get info on them, only a blank window. Same thing occurs when viewing games friends are in. If I spam the join button till it tries to connect, the connection just fails after the 4 retries.

Nothing firewall/program wise has changed since Steam last worked.

I have already forwarded all the necessary steam ports, and have port triggering setup. (Even though Steam worked without this before.) I have also tried searching the forums/FAQs, and tried all things listed on the connectivity FAQ and more.

Very weird situation. "

I hate Steam.

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Amfg a link!

me too, but its improved a lot since ive used it, as to your problem, sometimes servers wont show up for me either, but steam has never killed my internet

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It has not killed my internet. The only thing that doesn't properly use my internet is Steam when it tries to find servers/connect to games.

The LAN centre I go to has this kinda problem, you can log on fine no problem there, but when you connect to a server you can play for a whole match or maybe just 2minutes and it'll disconnect making you think the server has crashed, but I've connected to servers which i know are still running (Steamfriends ones) and it'll tell me that theres no server running, meaning I can't see the server anymore or connect to it. I will only be able to see it again once steam is restarted. Which again I will be disconnected after like 5minutes of playing, happens on all steam games. Properly annoying when your trying to play L4D with four people sitting next to you and you get disconnected from an online match.

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Eat crayons, poop rainbows!

probably just a problem with your psu

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You are now breathing manually.

Care to explain?

he's making fun of you.

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sf_skiff

i can't believe you cannot see that it is a problem with your psu

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You are now breathing manually.