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[gimlet]

Have you looked at the ports setup on your router?   This page: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/configuring-router-and-firewall-ports  is what I found looking for battle.net port configs.  On most home networks, having one person change the port forwarding on the router works for THEIR pc, and blocks out everyone else on the network unless that service has a range of usable ports that can be apportioned among the users.

ED:  Rereading, the above link is kind of misleading if you don't read it carefully and look at the portforward.com link they give.  The info on that page is only part of the solution, you DO need to make sure your PC's firewall is letting those ports through.  But like I said, you also have to make sure the home network router/modem is also forwarding the needed ports to the right pc, so look here for the other part of the solution: http://portforward.com/games/

[Arx]

Well, I have done a little asking around, and Steam has been made to work on three separate PCs on this network; it's only mine that refuses to co-operate, so it's presumably not a ports issue.

The problem seems to extend to most programs that attempt to download more files when the installer runs, since Dropbox, Battle.net, and Steam are all broken.

Edit: I unbroked it, yay! Turns out there was one last setting buried somewhere that I would have sworn I'd turned off months ago.

[Thief^]

For future reference, what was the setting?

[Arx]

For future reference, what was the setting?

Proxy server setting left on in the LAN settings. I forgot about it because it'd been switched off everywhere else, I haven't had the proxy running for over a year now, and it hasn't caused any problems with anything significant until now.

[Thief^]

Ah yes, that would do it

[Akura]

I'm trying to roadmap some future upgrades to my PC. I'm seeing that RAM is more expensive than I thought, while hard drives are cheaper than I thought. I would not have expected to see a 1TB drive for under $100. Mind you, it has been years since I've had any amount of money to even consider this.

Generally, what should I work to upgrade first? Everything at once? I suppose the HDD should be first, since I've been using it since 2008-2009...

[gimlet]

What's your actual bottleneck?  Out of disk space,  graphics slowdowns on games, something else?

[Tellemurius]

I'm trying to roadmap some future upgrades to my PC. I'm seeing that RAM is more expensive than I thought, while hard drives are cheaper than I thought. I would not have expected to see a 1TB drive for under $100. Mind you, it has been years since I've had any amount of money to even consider this.

Generally, what should I work to upgrade first? Everything at once? I suppose the HDD should be first, since I've been using it since 2008-2009...

If you can't afford 2 sticks of ram maybe just go for one and get a 500gb hard drive. RAM should have matching sticks but its still going to work and 2gb is 2gb.

[Akura]

It's not that RAM was too expensive, just more than I anticipated. Actually maybe not, I think I paid ~$20-$25 for what I do have, and saw 8GB for $66.

What's your actual bottleneck?  Out of disk space,  graphics slowdowns on games, something else?

I suppose disk space is low, plus worries about the age of the hard drive. I've got 2GB RAM, a dual-core 3GHz processor, and a 1024MB graphics card. I don't know where to start.

[Aklyon]

Certainly could do with more ram there, if you have slots for it.

[BigD145]

You could do with more RAM if you're running a 64bit OS. Your HD is over 5 years old and it should probably be replaced now.

[Thief^]

What actually is the graphics card? "1024 MB" could be anything

[Akura]

What actually is the graphics card? "1024 MB" could be anything

nVidia GeForce 8400s.

[gimlet]

My philosophy:  only replace stuff that's making me curse, if the other stuff I can live with, save the money because it will (in general) buy an even better upgrade later.  Don't upgrade just for the sake of making some abstract number bigger.  So far, it only sounds like the disk drive size and age is really bothering you.   Don't just chuck the old drive immediately, keep it around as a backup - it's always handy to have some other boot media, although now USB sticks have made that a lot easier (IF you prepare in advance).

The other advantage to not doing unneeded piecemeal upgrades is that you will not be buying "old" technology that will likely not be usable when you upgrade the mainboard (ie obsolete RAM form factors).  Then ideally you can do a "big bang" where you can do at least mainboard,cpu and memory  at once.

[Thief^]

That graphics card is so old nVidia no longer support it with driver updates, and is pretty slow too. If you are playing any remotely recent games it will be slowing you down , and there will be some things it won't run at all (it's only a directx 10 card, some directx 11 stuff will run on it but not all)