QUOTE (Worthless @ Sep 25 2011, 09:42 PM)

Steam
What is the deal with it being some people on Respawn have zero problems connecting while others can't even login? Happens everytime and it's random.
I have seen that, most of the people who tend to have problems is usually related to out of date steam clients. I had a few auth problems myself but I used my 3G Tether to do the auth and then swapped back to the LAN connection to play. Every event I've attended, Valve tends to release updates on the day. The admin team have worked hard (see the LAN FTP with backups of the latest steam games so that if you own it legit in steam it will allow you to insta-update.
Hope this helps, but steam will always be a problem if Valve continues to roll out updates on their Friday which happens to be Respawn Saturday (needs less timezones to avoid)