Joining Servers on Garry's Mod (steam)

humanvacuum1

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So whenever I try to join my friend on Gmod, the steam thing showing the server says "server not responding" every single time I try to join whatever server he is in. Whenever I google this problem, everybody else seems to have trouble joining their friends' private servers, but this happens to me even when he is on a public server. I've tried everything such as looking for the server in the list, refreshing the list of servers, and so on. He doesn't seem to have trouble joining me when I'm in a public server. Only when I try to join him. My game loads all sorts of servers just fine, except for whatever one he is in. Just wondering if anybody has any suggestions, could be something simple, I'm new to this game so any help would be appreciated.
 
Are you using a legacy browser? If so, I have never had your problem before.

Here's what you can do - your friend can copy the server's IP and send it to you. You put it in the console and join.
Is it by using the legacy browser or can you not join the same game at all?
 

humanvacuum1

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It's both... I hopped on legacy browser as well and clicked on friends tab and it shows me the IP address and everything, it's just when i click to join the box pops up with what I imagine would be the server information and it just says "server is not responding." I haven't tried the console thing, is that something I have to do while I'm already in a game? It just seems I can't join whatever game he is in, he can join the games that I am in.

Edit: Just tried connecting via the console, and it went to the loading screen as if it was going to connect, and then it said "failed to connect after 4 retries" or something like that.
 

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Well that's the thing, I can't see it at all. It's like I can't see the same servers. It's just inconvenient because when I hop on and he's on a good server I can't just join him, he has to quit and join whatever different server I join. It's not the end of the world, just seeing if anybody knows what the problem is