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Opening server browser or hosting game freezing Internet. Solution inside.

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I ran in to this issue and managed to resolve it. I figured I'd post a thread so it'd be archived for the next person to experience it.

When opening the server browser without filters or trying to host a game, my Internet would completely drop out. Existing connections to things like Mumble would stay live but any new connections couldn't be made.

Turns out it was the server browser essentially flooding out my system.

The fix was to limit the bandwidth available to the Steam server browser with a registry key.

In regedit browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam and create a String Value key named CafeRate with a value between 3000 and 10000.

Details can be found here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4487-YUOC-6922

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