{"id":1176,"date":"2010-07-05T02:24:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2010-07-05T13:47:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T20:47:29","slug":"steam-connection-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2010\/07\/steam-connection-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Connection Error (&#8220;you must first connect to the Internet&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>I was able to download and install Valve&#8217;s Steam client on my Windows 7 64-bit machine, but when I tried to run the client I would instantly receive this error:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Steam_ConnectionError.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Steam_ConnectionError.png 320w, https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Steam_ConnectionError-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<tt>Steam.exe (main exception):  To run Steam, you must first connect to the Internet<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tried changing port-forwarding rules in my router, and disabling the Windows firewall entirely.  In the end, the problem turned out to be PeerBlock, which is used in P2P networking.  PeerGuardian would cause the same problem, as would any software which performs network blocking functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than disable PeerBlock, I added Steam&#8217;s servers to PeerBlock&#8217;s allowed list.  To do this, open PeerBlock and, as Valve servers appear on the list, right click them and select &#8220;Allow x.x.x.x permanently&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PeerBlock_AddSteamServer.png\" alt=\"Adding a server to PeerBlock&#039;s list\" title=\"PeerBlock_AddSteamServer\" width=\"480\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PeerBlock_AddSteamServer.png 480w, https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PeerBlock_AddSteamServer-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Connections to Valve&#8217;s servers should appear in the TCP range of 27014 &#8211; 27050 and UDP 4380, and 27000 &#8211; 27030.  It appears that their servers are identified as &#8220;VALVE CORPORATION&#8221; or &#8220;Limelight Networks&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to download and install Valve&#8217;s Steam client on my Windows 7 64-bit machine, but when I tried to run the client I would instantly receive this error: Steam.exe (main exception): To run Steam, you must first connect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2010\/07\/steam-connection-error\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}