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BearShark

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So, for the past week, I've been unable to play TF2 or L4D2 because no servers will show up. If I try to get on by going to join a friend's game, I get an error message saying "Connection failed after X retries". I can play offline games just fine. I tried submitting the problem to Steam, but even their advice couldn't fix it. Has anyone else had this problem, and, if so, how did you end up fixing it?
 

DoPo

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OK, sounds like an issue on your end, more specifically, something is blocking the games from connecting. I'm guessing it's probably a firewall, do you have one? And if you don't, you still have the Windows Firewall. The fastest check you can do is when you open the game and try and find a game, or even better, try and join a game, just hit Alt+Tab and see if there is a popup saying something like "So and so blocked this application from connecting to the Internet, do you wish to unblock it" or something vaguely to that effect. One firewall I used was really infuriating, as it came up with this pop up but cleared it if you exit the game, so I went in there, couldn't connect, hit exit to check if things were working fine and missed the message. You can also try disabling Windows Firewall [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-za/windows/turn-windows-firewall-on-off#turn-windows-firewall-on-off=windows-7], I personally do it just to be safe (yeah...the irony). Just check to see if that fixes anything.

An alternative cause is likely to be your router, although, I don't know why this would crop up suddenly. There usually needs to be some changes made, say, getting a new router or mucking about with the settings of it.
 

SadisticFire

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DoPo said:
An alternative cause is likely to be your router, although, I don't know why this would crop up suddenly. There usually needs to be some changes made, say, getting a new router or mucking about with the settings of it.
What DoPo said is a frequent issue of mine due my router deciding it should block any ports quickly getting information, though I can't see an option to disable it, it believes it's a DoS which is annoying. Just waiting awhile for me usually makes it work.