WTF IS THIS?! HELP

[creepybob]

WTF IS THIS PLEASE HELP!

[kelvinhall05]

Sounds like your parents got upset with you using the internet.

[creepybob]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Sounds like your parents got upset with you using the internet.

no, I am at a hotel.

[kelvinhall05]

1 minute ago, creepybob said:

no, I am at a hotel.

Still.

[creepybob]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Still.

dude seriously. 

[kelvinhall05]

1 minute ago, creepybob said:

dude seriously. 

I am being serious. Maybe the hotel blocked it, IDK. Do your parents have access to your laptop or whatever your using?

[Misinthe]

Hotel probably has steam banned so you don't take up all their bandwith.

[Glibber4]

@creepybobDownload any VPN or be a nice guy and spend ~5$ a month on a Tunnlebear subscription with one of LMG's affiliate links and support them. Even if youre not willing to pay tunnlebear is a good option though. Once you got your vpn running you should be able to run steam flawlessly again

[Misinthe]

4 minutes ago, Glibber4 said:

@creepybobDownload any VPN or be a nice guy and spend ~5$ a month on a Tunnlebear subscription with one of LMG's affiliate links and support them. Even if youre not willing to pay tunnlebear is a good option though. Once you got your vpn running you should be able to run steam flawlessly again

Every time I see Tunnelbear, I read it in Linus' voice and start chanting the rest... darn mind control!

[Maxinfamily]

6 hours ago, Miguel552 said:

Every time I see Tunnelbear, I read it in Linus' voice and start chanting the rest... darn mind control!

I thought I was thr only one he is brainwashing us (?)

6 hours ago, Glibber4 said:

@creepybobDownload any VPN or be a nice guy and spend ~5$ a month on a Tunnlebear subscription with one of LMG's affiliate links and support them. Even if youre not willing to pay tunnlebear is a good option though. Once you got your vpn running you should be able to run steam flawlessly again

There's another option, if you are not going to play online. Use you mobile's data to give your laptop an access point, connect to steam and play, or use the offline mode. This way youll only have to send a few packages.

 

(And yeah, It looks like they closed the ports that steam uses or restringed their IP).

[Misinthe]

6 hours ago, Maxinfamily said:

I thought I was thr only one he is brainwashing us (?)

Haha all advertising is brain washing, they make you get their product stuck in your head, so whenever you're in the market for the product you will go to theirs first.

6 hours ago, Maxinfamily said:

There's another option, if you are not going to play online. Use you mobile's data to give your laptop an access point, connect to steam and play, or use the offline mode. This way youll only have to send a few packages.

 

(And yeah, It looks like they closed the ports that steam uses or restringed their IP).

Be careful with this if you have limited data, make sure your computer doesn't have background process that use data, like updating Antivirus or something. 

[Maxinfamily]

2 minutes ago, Maxinfamily said:

There's another option, if you are not going to play online. Use you mobile's data to give your laptop an access point, connect to steam and play, or use the offline mode. This way youll only have to send a few packages.

 

(And yeah, It looks like they closed the ports that steam uses or restringed their IP).

Oh, I forgot to say that depending on your carries plan they might charge you, check It before using your mobile as an access point!

[TetraSky]

3 minutes ago, Miguel552 said:

Be careful with this if you have limited data, make sure your computer doesn't have background process that use data, like updating Antivirus or something. 

Well if it's just to start steam, after that he can switch it to Offline mode and disconnect from the internet.

[Maxinfamily]

6 hours ago, Miguel552 said:

Haha all advertising is brain washing, they make you get their product stuck in your head, so whenever you're in the market for the product you will go to theirs first.

Yep, thats true, but I like to think that Linus is a good person and only sponsors reliable and good products  :3

6 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Well if it's just to start steam, after that he can switch it to Offline mode and disconnect from the internet.

Theres something more. Depending on the brand of the mobile you can set a limit of data to the access point. You limit Ot to 5-10MB which a huge amount of data so you can make sure It connects to steam regarding the background process going on, or just, as they said, check all the apps who uses data and close them before connecting!

[Glibber4]

If hes on Windows 10 though, it will activate the option for clocked connections and thus reducing data usage by a good bit.

[Misinthe]

6 hours ago, Maxinfamily said:

Yep, thats true, but I like to think that Linus is a good person and only sponsors reliable and good products  :3

Haha not saying he isn't or the products are bad. I've bought many things because he recommends them. I was just saying how all advertising works

6 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Well if it's just to start steam, after that he can switch it to Offline mode and disconnect from the internet.

Isn't there an option that let's you start offline when you start steam and finds no connection? Like, it gives the error and below it says "start offline" I think. So he wouldn't need Internet to even start it for that.

6 hours ago, Glibber4 said:

If hes on Windows 10 though, it will activate the option for clocked connections and thus reducing data usage by a good bit.

Can you elaborate on this? Never heard of this clocked connections before.

[TetraSky]

1 minute ago, Miguel552 said:

Isn't there an option that let's you start offline when you start steam and finds no connection? Like, it gives the error and below it says "start offline" I think. So he wouldn't need Internet to even start it for that.

There is, but if it's still the way it was before, you would need to have manually put steam in Offline mode at least once, before being able to start it offline that way.

[Misinthe]

34 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

There is, but if it's still the way it was before, you would need to have manually put steam in Offline mode at least once, before being able to start it offline that way.

Will need to research, never really started steam offline.