So every had that problem where everything is connected to the internet, but steam says it cannot connect?
Sorry Mac users this was written for windows.
Follow these steps
- Close all instances of steam (double check task manager), wait about 30sec then reopen steam.
- Still not working? Close all instances of steam once again.
- open command prompt under administrator.
- type the follow commands
- netsh winsock reset catalog
- netsh int ip reset reset.log
- reopen steam if it says it cannot connect click retry.
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