Steam doesn't like tethering?

Gti

Gti

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I've got The One Plan on Three which gives me all you can eat data and allows tethering but steam refuses to work.
I can enter my password but then it says "password not recognised or problem with connection".

Is Three blocking the connection or steam? Googling turns up threads where people get blocked because their plans don't allow tethering but this isn't the case here.
Would i have to use some sort of VPN to connect? I won't have home broadband until i move into my new place and was hoping this would tide me over.

Steam wasn't set to offline mode i can't even play the games in my library :mad:
 
Disable your network connections LAN/Wifi/3G, restart steam and it'll offer to go into offline mode as it can't find any adapters to use.

This use to work fine for me, give it a try :)

Tethering is always very hit and miss, it can be down to your provider more than Steam to be fair.
 
T-Mobile, Orange and EE can be very difficult to connect to steam on occasion too during peak periods from personal experience. Recommend you use VPN or tunneling your connection in some way.
 
My friend uses 3 for tethering on both his xbox and my PC when I take it round fwiw. It works fine.

He's got 'all you can eat data' and they still charge him for tethering... :rolleyes:
 
Not quite sure what happened. I was checking my windows firewall settings to see if i had blocked it somehow, did not touch anything as it all seemed to be in order so i tried steam again and after it updated it let me in.

God knows how but thanks for the help anyway guys.
 
I've had problems with Steam on mobile connections seems to be a mixture of some networks blocking some functionality it needs and on some networks some issues with latency where steam authentication times out too soon - sometimes it will work after a couple of attempts or so and/or moving somewhere with a better signal.
 
Uncle Petey said:
My friend uses 3 for tethering on both his xbox and my PC when I take it round fwiw. It works fine. He's got 'all you can eat data' and they still charge him for tethering... :rolleyes:
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Yeah they will do this as they see tethering as an extra add-on service, for which they charge extra. "All you can eat data", is meant to apply to the phone only as the volume of data downloaded on a phone, is usually a LOT less than if you connected the phone to your PC. Tethering is usually blocked if you connect to 3 via the PC, and visit a website. However the tethering block usually only works on Windoze.

If I connect whilst using Linux, I'm not tether blocked.

I'm fairly sure I've used Steam whilst connected to 3.
 
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