well i figured it out you cant use capitol letters in rcon :/ hope this helps someone else otherwise sorry for the wasted thread!

Not wasted at all :)

Do you mean that your password can't contain upercase letters??
Or are you saying that rcon commands can't be typen in upercase letters?

If it is the second, then on a *nix system it is quite normal. If it is the first then we need to look at it.

;)

well I think I was mistaken. It seems that it wasn't uppercase letters it was that I needed to enable the encryption. I changed my rcon_password to lowercase and switched that CVAR at the same time, which is where I got the false conclusion. I tried to get rcon working on the all around server, and merely changed my password to lowercase, and it still didn't work. I then looked at the pwd.cfg and noticed that I hadn't enabled the encryption and bingo it worked. I have not tried caps letters again however but I believe that they should work and that was not the problem.

Yes, encryption between client and server must match for RCON to work correctly.
I think there is nothing wrong with caps or not :)

Glad you figured it out.