Hello all,

Im playing Counter Strike with my friends and 2 of them can't see the server. The other time we had to connect them via ethernet.

But now that is not a possibility.

Any ideas?

I assume you mean you have created the LAN server yourself and your friends are trying to connect to it?

Usually when people can't see your LAN server, it's due to port issues and/or strict firewall and/or antivirus settings. Can be from both ends.

Back when I was hosting a local server, I had to forward these ports in my router: TCP 27014-27050 and UDP 1200, 3478, 4379-4380, 27000-27030.

Have in mind this was Counter-Strike: Source, and the other Counter-Strikes need other ports to function. I'll list them for you below.

CS 1.6
TCP 27020-27039 and UDP 1200, 27000-27015

CS:GO
TCP 27014-27050 UDP 3478, 4379-4380, 27000-27030

Feel free to PM me if you need help setting it up.

Did you create a server from the ingame menu as a listen?
Or did you download the dedicated server from steam?

If you downloaded the dedicated server, you must set it to local.


Make sure everyone is running the same version of Counter-Strike.
Make sure all the ports are open.
Open console; type 'sv_lan 0' (Counter-strike 1.5/Counter-Strike 1.6)

If they are unable to see your server; write STATUS in console and grab the IP from the server and have them connect to it through the console.