• Cannot connect to servers
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Now I don't know if this is mainly a firewall problem. Everything was working fine the other day but I got home one day and I was unable to connect to any Steam game servers. I tried reinstalling Steam and restarting it. Unplugged router and plugged it back in. Restarted computer. Still no luck. My friend said it could be from a firewall of some sort but I never have mine on. The servers I try to join never respond. Like when I refresh the server list no servers show up and when I go to view a friends game it doesn't respond. Any info or help on this?
Did you port forward the ports you need?
[QUOTE=GunfighterJ;25047381]Did you port forward the ports you need?[/QUOTE] I am terrible at doing that. All attempts at doing it in the past have failed. Although I don't see why I would need to. Steam has been working fine ever since I got it.
port forwarding only forwards ports for one specific internal IP. If you reset your router, your internal IP will change and you will have to go to the port forwarding menu on your router and change it back to the internal IP that you are currently assigned. If that didn't make any sense and you need help. Let me know, and give the names of all the routers on your network.
I'm still a bit hazy on this but I went to my router site or whatever and turned off the firewall and rebooted the router from there.
He wouldn't need to forward ports if he's trying to connect to a server, only if he's hosting one. Try copying the IP and go to Command Prompt, type [code]ping <ip>[/code] with <ip> being that IP, and see if it goes through. Another thing you can try is using Google's DNS servers instead of your service provider's. They are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.6.6 You can use [url="http://www.mediacollege.com/computer/network/dns.html"]this guide[/url] for help if you wish, You only need to do step 1.
Whoops rate me bad reading. Didn't see that he was just playing.
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