Same problem :/

True ,it didnt use to be like this in the past .Maybe too many users nowdays ?

its just matnece on the server srry cant spell that good

Someone is probably confusing those red cables for Twizzlers.
And the past few months have been particularly disconnecty... I would only expect that only at the very beginnings of steam events.
Anyway, I'm sure its not the client code, but that their servers are overloaded. Would be nice to have 10Million online, but only 5.5M can get online at one time I guess.
Anyway, sometimes you can even see this on the steam support page graph...
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
I can see two extreme dips for yesterday and before, but nothing at this exact moment.
(Just had two disconnects...)

If it were maintenance it would be at the same time each day.
This seems to be something completely other...

Deff not maintenance they have put messages up before now, its not game spacific as Homefront is the same
This is naff and just before a new Game is to be launched Not good

just F+cking steam again ,nothing new ,time to change games ,maybe BF3 and give origin a chance

The same, the service went down three times today, don't even remember how many times during the last month.

Its getting ridiculous, Get right to end of a game then friends goes down taking game with it. An Explanation would be nice, happened all last night and now at peak time in UK????????

Originally posted by ¯SGC¯ Asgard:

just F+cking steam again ,nothing new ,time to change games ,maybe BF3 and give origin a chance

Steam in its maintenance state is still better than origin.

Same problems here. Community and TF2 item server keep going up and down.

Guessing their hardware/servers are pushing capacity or just running on outdated. Like most companies, they maybe holding off on upgrading until the bitter end. Hope it gets resolved though.. One of the reasons I liked steam in the past (aside from the deals) was the fact that it was hardly noticeable as it was always so stable.

Originally posted by {A4F}Northerndj:

Deff not maintenance they have put messages up before now, its not game spacific as Homefront is the same
This is naff and just before a new Game is to be launched Not good

It was maintenance:

We are currently performing some maintenance on networking equipment on the Steam backend. This is not expected to cause any downtime, but in the event of an unforeseen problem, we're working on it.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=33304318&postcount=535

Nice of them to tell us on a anouncment instead they post
Not very good customer service

Your post doesn't make sense.
They told us Steam was going down. Usually they post in advance, but because they didn't expect something to go wrong they posted later than usual.
Don't get your knickers in a twist over something so minor.