I cant seem to stay on certain ns servers for more than 30 seconds at a time at which point i freeze, and the server goes to "not responding" for about anothr 30 seconds or so. the server does not go down because their are other people playing on it while timed out from it or whatever.

66.228.121.108:27015 is one of em, the 3.1 g4b2s is another one ive experienced the same problem with.
their might be more but it seems teh majority of ns server(as in 90%) are fine for me.

anyone have any idea what it might be?

edit: ive found out at least a few others who are experiencing the exact same problem with the exact same servers, and crashing at exactly the same time, as well as observing the server "come back up" at exactly the same time. so the problem is not just isolated to me.

please help this is annoying.

edit2: ok it seems to have fixed itself after i kept finding person after person with the exact same problem. probly was some sort of steam update thing that kept screwing up until it decided to work(yay steam)

I am experiencing the exact same problem. Steam updated itself and restarted, then IMMEDIATELY after that the same thing began happening to me. It's also strange because other people experiencing the problem, will time out at the EXACT same time as me.

Same problem, and it started directly after tonight's STEAM update. So its probably something Valve did to us.