Connection Problem.

[estrides]

Okay, So, my brother came over with his PC. we were going to play Counter Strike Source. But, every time we try to join the same server it. One person gets in and then it says connection error. So it just wont work in general. BUT we can play in two different servers. We are using two seperate accounts, both legit. Why is this happenin?. Our PCs are plenty good enough to play the games. This is the first time this has happened.

I have DSL. Maybe thats why? I also have a router which we are playing on, Its both wired and wireless. We are using wired. Any reason for this?

Could it be a windows thing?

Any help is much appreciated.

~Estrides

 

[Stigmata]

I think this should work.

Both of you go to ..\Steam\steamapps\<your account name>\counter-strike source\cstrike\cfg, and open up config.cfg (wordpad works fine). Go down to the bottom of the file and create a new line (i.e. hit Enter at the end of the last line). Now YOU put the following on that line:

clientport 27005

And your BROTHER will put this on the last line of his config file:

clientport 27006

Then save the file. On the off chance that the program asks, choose not to save any formatting information.

CSS defaults to using port 27005 for communications between you and the server. If you have two clients running, they'll both try to connect through the same port, but for one of the clients it will already be in use, and unusable for said second client. By putting "clientport 27006" in one of the config files, it means one copy of CSS will default to using port 27006, meaning it will use a port that is more likely than not unused by any other program, and thus it should connect with no problem.

 

[giant384]

also it can mean that they have the same ip too if the DHCP doesnt send out different ips

 

[estrides]

Okay, if the first thing doesnt work, how would I go about fixing the second one?

 

[Stigmata]

The second thing shouldn't be a problem whatsoever. DHCP almost invariably gives your computers different internal IPs (IP addresses used only between your home computers and your router), because giving two local computers the same DHCP address can lead to a lot of general network problems, i.e. not being able to browse the internet properly.