This may not solve the problem for everyone, but it did for me and others. You need to open some ports on your router:įor people with a BeBox (a Speedtouh 780 WL I think, so it should work for similar Speedtouches, like those with BT internet) you can simply log into the router (at ), go to Toolbox -> Game & Application Sharing -> Assign a game or application to a local network device -> Half-life 2. Fortunately the fix is fairly straightforward.
Reason:” … connection to server lost… this steam ID is already in use… And I saw a lot of “Disconnected from server. Trying to rejoin would give me a “This Steam ID is in use on the server”, while my friends saw many “ BertieB(1)Â has connected”. I’m sure I even got a kill after being disconnected. Sometimes I would only get to “retrieving server info” or “sending client data”, and sometimes I could play for as long as 30 or more seconds before I got ghostbusted (yes, netrek jargon). A second later I would get the red “Connection to server lost. The problem was that most of the time I would get into the game, take a few steps, then it would freeze. Also, for all the spies out there: FYI I am a medic – please call for me sometime eh?)Īnyway, I had been playing for a while, but had developed a problem connecting to servers. (7 to go! One of them is ‘Family Practice’, so I need some more Steam friends to deploy an ubercharge on, hint hint. I blame Valve for releasing the medic achievements recently. Even though I have exams coming up, I still manage to squeeze in the odd round or ten of Team Fortress 2.
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