Rogean does ... "clever" networking stuff with the server.
It's outside my area of expertise, so I can't be more specific than that, but keep in mind that not only does he have to deal with making a 20+ year old game work (and load as quickly as possible) for thousands of players ... but then on top of that he has to deal with psychopaths like Green Grocer who attack the servers using DDOS or other measures (which means Rogean then has to take certain countermeasures to protect the servers).
You essentially have two options to deal with "Rogean's cleverness" (which, again, is very much necessary). Option A) find the thread (it's not that old) where they talk about how to debug your router settings to fix things. Option B) get a VPN: it costs $5 a month, let's you download bit torrent files without anyone knowing, and it solves most people's networking problems on P99.
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