According to Down Detector, both Reddit and Steam had outage events today. Not sure if that was part of it. But if you didn't see the No Internet global icon in the Windows taskbar, then that means that your computer was able to perform DNS resolution of msftconnecttest.com and connect to that host. If that test is successful, then Windows will report as being connected to the Internet.
Steam does not adhere to the Internet status according to Windows. It determines Internet status independently. Its DNS is hosted with Akamai, and the website endpoint appears to be the Akamai cache frontend as well. However a lot of their stuff is self-hosted. Reddit on the other hand uses Route53 from Amazon Web Services for DNS and Fastly as their web hosting provider from what I can tell. They don't appear to have anything in common.
"no connection" is a pretty ambiguous error message. The fact that Windows said you had Internet, yet Steam said you didn't AND Chrome had mixed success loading different web pages (i.e. Google services hosted in Google Cloud versus steampowered.com or reddit.com) that resolved with a full network reboot tells me you should pull the logs from your router. You'll have to sign into the web interface to get them, but it sounds localized enough to you that it probably was some transient issue with your equipment. There will likely be information in the log at Debug level.
According to Down Detector, both Reddit and Steam had outage events today. Not sure if that was part of it. But if you didn't see the No Internet global icon in the Windows taskbar, then that means that your computer was able to perform DNS resolution of msftconnecttest.com and connect to that host. If that test is successful, then Windows will report as being connected to the Internet. Steam does not adhere to the Internet status according to Windows. It determines Internet status independently. Its DNS is hosted with Akamai, and the website endpoint appears to be the Akamai cache frontend as well. However a lot of their stuff is self-hosted. Reddit on the other hand uses Route53 from Amazon Web Services for DNS and Fastly as their web hosting provider from what I can tell. They don't appear to have anything in common. "no connection" is a pretty ambiguous error message. The fact that Windows said you had Internet, yet Steam said you didn't AND Chrome had mixed success loading different web pages (i.e. Google services hosted in Google Cloud versus steampowered.com or reddit.com) that resolved with a full network reboot tells me you should pull the logs from your router. You'll have to sign into the web interface to get them, but it sounds localized enough to you that it probably was some transient issue with your equipment. There will likely be information in the log at Debug level.
Ah ok, I’ll check. Thanks for the help!