Quintinon (1/7/2007)

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Hello, noticed this post and I signed up to the forums just so I could answer this one question ...

I used to have this problem a while back and after MONTHS of searching ... I found the solution.

Since your on a wireless connection WINDOWS XP has a service that stops the communication every 2-3 mins for a few seconds to update the list, to fix this you need to do the following.

Click start menu.
Click control panel.
If it comes up in a format with 6-10 objects near the side should be an option that says switch to classic view.
Then click on administrative tools.
From there click on services.
Scroll down to the bottom and right click on Wireless Zero Configuration. This is the program that refreshes the list every few minutes. Click STOP.
If you find your internet has stopped and wont work, a restart will always work, or you can reenable this option.
NOTE: It only stops it till you tell it to start again or you restart.

Have a nice day guys, and it would be lovely is someone sticked this post because it is very hard to find this info.

I originally found it in the steam help database after a few months(it was a recent addition).