Comments on: TF2 – ‘Lost connection to server’ Solved

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By: TF2 Connection Problems Persist « Bertie Baggio's Wonderland

TF2 Connection Problems Persist « Bertie Baggio's Wonderland — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:07:17 +0000

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By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:15:33 +0000

Hey Chris, no need to apologise for the bump! This problem still affects loads of people in many Source games (eg Counter-Strike Source or Left4Dead[2]), so additional information is definitely helpful. Heck, I even still use this post when I need reminded of which ports it is!

Richard – aggravating but fingers crossed this’ll work. There is a separate issue that I noticed with my model – playing games like Left4Dead or anything that retrieves a huge serverlist crashes the router (opening too many connections / overheating?). Unfortunately my solution was to use the router as a bridge and let a WRT54GL running Tomato handle the grown-up stuff like opening connections and routing.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:39:13 +0000

Hey Guys,

Sorry to bump and old post ^^

But for those who don’t know how to open up ports on their router, there is a website called portforward (google it) This is a very useful site and has help on forwarding your ports for all routers and all games,

Check it out!

Chris.

By: richard padley

richard padley — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:59:17 +0000

This has been driving me mad – I only recently made the correlation between playing Team Fortress 2 and the old style BT Hub hub resetting.

I’ve logged calls with BT, done resets – nothing.

Finally – your post looks like the solution.

I’ve made the change….here’s hoping for more uninterrupted gibbin’

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:30:41 +0000

I have the TCP and UD etc assigned for HL2, but my speedtouchy piece of sh.. assigns TF2 a different set of numbers. I cannot seem to give all my Steam protocols the same number. And this does not really keep me from losing connection with HL2 in any case. I am getting three basic symptoms. Sometimes I can log in, usually after several tries of getting hung up on sending client information, sometimes I then lose connection, and sometimes it says Steam validation problems. All three of these seem similar, but at different points in logging on. The games work sometimes for some servers, but even these experience all of the above at different times. Really pissing.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:38:47 +0000

Good thing we got that 3 year old typo squashed

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:50:21 +0000

Jeroen, you are absolutely right.

What’s embarrassing is I noticed the typo when re-doing ports after my BeBox packed a mental. I could have sworn I updated it and left a comment to the fact. Guess I’m imagining things!

For what it’s worth, I’m now using my BeBox purely as a glorified modem in bridge mode in front of a Linksys WRT54GL running the Tomato firmware. Stability is much improved.

Cheers!

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:33:57 +0000

UDP 2700 â€“ 27015

2700 is that a typo not 27000 ?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:28:09 +0000

ty =) Looks like it might have solved my problem

Paul