Since the past month, many people and the Steam community, in general, had been struggling with a few uncomfortable problems with its connection. Users that assure that Steam is not opening tried to solve this error in several unorthodox ways like retrying their connection or just using the offline mode but they didn’t have any results.
So in this article, you will learn the most reliable ways to solve the Steam connection error once you have it. Anyways, if you belong to this community or you just want to solve this issue; keep reading.
How to solve the Network issue on Steam?
As you read, users from all around the world that have the same error tried to solve this issue almost desperately, especially the ones from Singapore and Hong Kong where the connection managers of Steam are not fully online at the moment so if you managed to connect, it was just luck.
You will probably see an advice that says that you could not connect to Steam network which usually appears when your attemp to log in to your account is failed. When you this error runs to you, the very first thing that you can do is to restart your device (In this case your computer). An easy reset can fastly clear all the software bugs, driver problems and restart your network in general, which can probably fix your Steam not connecting Error.
But what if that doesn’t work either? You can always try to follow the next steps:
In this case, you can change the UDP (original Internet protocol) to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which is more reliable and faster.
First of all, if the “could not connect to the Steam network” error runs to you, you can try changing your network properties. Here is how to do it:
Step 1. Press right-click on Steam shortcut and select Properties.
Step 2. Go to the Shortcut tab right in the propierties window
Step 3. Add –TCP to the end in the target text box. The entire text line should be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe -TCP.
And then, just try again to launch your steam client and see if the Steam connection error is still appearing.
In addition, if the problem persists you can always try to check if your Internet connection works as normal or not. Or just reinstalling your Steam Client after deleting its files.
