I've been assisting my friend in a project for a few days, no issues whatsoever. Today, while I'm out somewhere, I open up a Surface tablet and try to connect to his WIP. Instead of connecting, it just sits idle with this "Connecting to IP ADDRESS with password." prompt. I tell him the internet is probably different, and wait until I get home. There, I go on my desktop computer (The Surface is now at someone else's house), and try to connect, believing it will have no issues.
But then, I'm presented with the same thing.
I have had this issue before on his other servers, many times in the past. It wouldn't go away sometimes, either. It'd be a week, or a few days before I try again out of curiosity, and it actually works. But right now, I'd really like to be there.
His location compared to mine is pretty far, if that effects anything. Alaska & Pennsylvania.