Connection lost - cant connect afterwards to the same server

[gamefrek22]

Im having recently an unlucky time with getting disconnects on NI servers. Sometimes i can stay for 3 hours on a server but then get disconnected on the next after 5 mins (and cant rejoin because "someone else is using your character already).

And i think, im not the only one encountering this problem.

[Sargent Q]

The unable to reconnect issue is because of the fact that your character has not actually left the game yet.  And do you have any issues with your internet?

[gamefrek22]

My internet is fine. Im playing competetiv TF2 at other days and have 0 timeouts and connection issues. Im even checking that with a net_graph command.

[Soviet]

back when macros were still allowed i used to have the exact same issue. for some reason, every time i turned off any macro i'd get disconnected from the server.