Im having trouble with my online games list in TF2 now since going back to XP and doing a fresh install of all steam stuff a couple of weeks back,i can only get servers of a ping around 800 or over to show up and playing on them is a waste of time,i remember a while ago when i first got my new router (BT Home Hub) i had allow ports and i used the BT util for that,but it showed all the usual low ping servers in the list before i done that,and i could join the games,but i would disconnect in under a minute,the port forwarding thing solved all that.
Also a new thing i notice is after i try and play on a 900 ping server then quit out to steam,in my games list TF2 says "Syncing" for a few seconds then goes to normal "100% Ready".
Finally i downloaded and ran a PortChecker util and checked out the ports required by steam games and found a couple that report "Not Open",it all confuses me even more as all my Race/Evo/STCC works fine,just my TF2 is not useable just now,any help out there guys? .