Having problems with your Steam install taking forever to log in, updating incredibly slowly (5kb/s), or just refusing to let you do either? I've had this problem on two computers now and the reason for it just became apparent. They're both machines that had a single hard drive until a small SSD was installed for the OS, meaning that Steam had to be moved to the secondary drive.
Open up Regedit and search for "x86)\Steam", then carefully delete or update every entry. I'm not sure why exactly, but this hanging seems to be caused by old registry entries pointing to where Steam no longer exists. Removing them causes Steam to update normally and let you log in. I suspect that the default behaviour when it can't find config or cache files is to try to contact default servers, which aren't nearby, which would account for the slowness, although I can't imagine it would cause failure to be able to log in. Who knows.
Either way - try that for a fix. I've done this on two machines now and it's fixed both instantly.
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