"Establishing network connection to server" FAILED

[jhawk613]

I posted this in another thread, but it might be easier to piggyback off of this thread.

I've read some other threads. Started a thread over at Steam but got no assistance.

My CS 1.6 hangs when trying to join multiplayer games. I can load a local game and run around like an idiot by myself, but really that's only fun for about 47 minutes then I have to find something else to do.

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. I have a Linksys Wireless Router, but this computer is hard-wired directly into the router.

I was previously on Vista before my hard drive disappeared (which is why i'm on Windows 7 now) but I never had issues with Vista.

I've tried deleting ClientRegistry.blob and letting STEAM update but that didn't solve it. I searched for "Internet Download Manager" on my computer and as far as I can tell it does not exist on this computer. Also, there is no IEMonitor.exe running in the background that other threads seem to think causes the problem.

I've also read something about port forwarding, but admittedly I don't know how to do that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, this same problem occurs on CS Source, TF2 and TF Original. So I believe it is more of a STEAM issue than a particular game problem.

Thanks

Also, I can't find what the -tcp command does anywhere, so please explain what it should be/do before telling people to use it.

It's kind of sad that STEAM hasn't fixed this yet. Over 9,000 views on this thread alone seems to mean that a fair amount of people are having issues.