So for a while now I've been hosting from my own machine a SRCDS server (specifically Team Fortress 2). My IP and port can be seen by everyone (it is port forwarded correctly) it can be pinged by everyone. However, some players in TF2 cannot connect to the server.
I've been doing a lot of troubleshooting myself and found a very unstable "fix"; each player that CAN'T join must change their clientport manually in order to get in the server. Thing is, other players with the default 27005 clientport can connect just fine.
The players that CAN'T join can ping the server just fine, so my ports are forwarded correctly since the world can see my IP. However, they can't connect to the server. They get the famous Connection failed after 4 retries, as if they couldn't even see my IP in the first place, which they can.
So I don't know what could be causing this. It's been 2 weeks since this started and this is still happening. Anyone else has this problem? Anyone knows anything about this?
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