AOL and Steam Created 18 years ago2006-02-21 13:56:10 UTC by Dr. Mapper

Right, my friend has a laptop. At his house, his internet is with steam.
When he brings it over here, it changes to NTL.
He is plugged into the internet and all that kinda thing, but steam wont work.
It wont even go into offline mode.
He can access the internet on it, but no steam

We turned off all his firewalls and protection, but the goods arn't working.

Any ideas?
Maybe steam still thinks that it's trying to connect to AOL dailup, instead of our NTL network (Which is broadban).

Don't post something useless like "Don't use AOL, it sucks".
I want help, don't diss AOL, I know it's crap.

Thanks, larry!

"Don't use AOL, it sucks".

You took the words right out of my mouth...anyhoo, to not be useless does everything else work? He can surf the net and all that? You didnt really say

One cannot help but complain about AOL...

Anywho. Are you behind some sort of router or hardware Firewall? If so, it may be preventing Steam from connecting.

If the nazi parental controls are enabled, it wont let you do anything. If thats the case, youre better off using tin cans and a string.

I already stated that He can use the internet, but no steam.

The filewall dosn't block it, because my steam works perfectly, he connected to my network. Which is on NTL, he used to be on AOL. Steam thinks it's still AOL.

I need to know how to change it.
No parent controls are on. We don't have a blocking system or whatnot.

AOL has done something screwey to his system then, steam isnt made to connect using a certain way, it looks for a way to connect and then uses it, AOL has somehow told his system that its the only way to go and steam somehow listened

The important thing is can he access the internet using IE?
Many system network settings are based on those.

My guess is the AOL CrapWare has changed some of the System settings. There's no real way to help you though, can I just ask, why is it so important for your "friend" to connect?

He comes round my house on the laptop, so we can connect to the network and play multiplayer.

I can Access the internet using IE.

ARG. I'll tell him to reinstall.