[FIXED] Failed To Connect After 6 Retries

[YagaRF]

I have been struggling with Gmod for the longest time not being able to connect to servers like I used to years ago until today where I finally found my long wanted solution.

Before explaning the issue I need to address something:
Bandwidth and Throughput are two different things in the networking world. Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that travel through a specified channel whereas Throughput is how much of that data actually does travel through the specified channel. So for example you could have a highway that supports 4 lanes of traffic but during the early morning only 2 of these lanes are taken up. 4 lanes would be the Bandwidth and 2 lanes taken up would be the current Throughput.

With that garbage out of the way here was my issue: Steam had the permissions needed to send me WAY to many packets of data at once when using the server browser within games. This means steam would hog up all the traffic on my network not allowing anything besides recieving server information, keeping me from joining servers. Going back to the highway example this is like trying to fit more cars on the highway at once than the highway can support, it becomes overloaded and cannot respond. Before testing the solution below you could open cmd and try pinging www.google.com or any other website while trying to join a gmod server and see if the ping is successful or not. If not then this might be your issue aswell. This can all be limited with one setting within the steam client.

The Solution: In the steam client go to the upper left hand side and click "Steam" and then "Settings". After this go into "In-Game" on the left hand side of the new window and at the very bottom you will see an option called "In-Game server browser: Max pings / minute". By default this should be set to 5000. Change this down to 1000, while this will make your server browser load significantly slower it will fix the issue if your issue was the same as mine.

Hopfully this fixes your issues and if so please share with others who may be experiencing the same issue!

[Smile]

thank you i hope this works because me and my friend had the same problem and we would spend literally hours on trying to fix the issue. And thank you for the informational background on why this might not be working.

[knotts]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this actually worked. Thank you so much

[YagaRF]

Originally posted by Rolph Zaggler:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this actually worked. Thank you so much

Awesome!

[El (DOMADO)]

Gracias

[Arboulbir]

always working in 2021 THANKS

[YagaRF]

Originally posted by Arboulbir:

always working in 2021 THANKS

So glad my post from 2018 could still help you in 2021!

[SharkInside]

For me, unfortunately it doesn't work

[Maxourss]

YESSSSD THX YESSSSDD IT WORKED

[YagaRF]

Originally posted by CC Max U.T.O.P.I.A:

YESSSSD THX YESSSSDD IT WORKED

Glad I could help 3 years later haha

[Karman211]

It didn't work for me but thanks anyways.

[MasterPasha]

Didnt work for me D:. but cheers.

[A14_Eagle]

didnt work for me but strangely enough i only have the issue with one server, every other server works

[libmysql]

+clientport 27015

[76561199054451574]

doesnt work

[UnstoppableGiant]

didn't work for me