A reason I'm glad only two of my games are steam...

Worked, had to enable tethering on my desire, me and the gf are sharing my phones edge signal right now! Also found that edge is only 4 times slower than our wifi wired connection!
 
It seems that steam is a bit temperamental when it chooses to play certain games in offline mode. When playing Deux Ex HR the other week, it would sometimes start the game up no probs without an internet connection, then other times it would throw up the error messages about not being online. It does seem you have to have an active internet connection the first time you start up steam, then you can choose offline mode, or restart steam without a connection. I guess if you rebooted your pc, it would throw up the error message again until you get a connection.

Stats and achievements on Deus Ex still worked even when the dongle was disconnected. Steam just updated them when it sensed a connection.
 
Nate--IRL-- said:
The trick to getting steam to work of line is to Temporarily Disable your NIC, then switch to Offline mode and re-enable your NIC.

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Why? Why should I be doing a workaround on behalf of a company which is supplying half a service? One game I had (IIRC it was the otherwise useless Loki) had a better on-line DRM: you could play it for up to about five days without an on-line check, then it would stop working.


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Don't forget that, disregarding sales, you also get to pay more for the privilege! I'll take discs every time. ;)
 
Andrew_McP said:
I have a cheap 3 dongle for emergency use. If my broadband goes down I just load £10 on the dongle and carry on as normal.
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This tbh.

All the features that Steam offers far outweight the 0.000001% of downtime I've had on my connection. Use of a dongle for those times makes it more so.

Glad I don't live in the sticks on a stone-age caveman connection. :p
 
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Up until last Saturday i have been without Internet for 3 weeks as some phone engineer managed to disconnect me by mistake.

In that time i had no issues with steam in off-line mode and i didn't need to be connected to the net to enter off-line mode.
 
Rroff said:
Yah, but pretty much everything else works and my tethering pack is supposed to be "pure" internet without port blocking. Didn't bother to try tunnelling as the connection was so slow it wasn't worth the hassle - so slow I think steam thought it was losing connection and timing out.
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I'd be extremely surprised if Steam thought it was losing connection and timing out. Given that I've seen Steam working on 56k connections and I've in the past managed to get a connection over GPRS, I would suggest that it's far more likely to be caused by the port/routing restrictions I mentioned above.
 
i cant get on at all now, im tethered again and now all it says is 'connecting steam user account<username>' and just crashes, no more steam linked games for me if i can help it! damn countryside! back to some old red alert i think!
 
Final8y said:
In that time i had no issues with steam in off-line mode and i didn't need to be connected to the net to enter off-line mode.
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This for me. The only issues I've ever had are different save games for online vs off with a lot of titles, and DLC not being available e.g. no cerberus network stuff for Mass Effect 2.
 
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JTrickle said:
This for me. The only issues I've ever had are different save games for online vs off with a lot of titles, and DLC not being available e.g. no cerberus network stuff for Mass Effect 2.
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I was playing Mass Effect 1 most of the time when my line was down and steam had no problems logging in tethered to my mobile on T Mobile network.
 
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