Cannot make remote connection with PyMySQL (pymysql.err.InternalError: Packet sequence number wrong)

Question

update: Problem solved, solution posted below

I am new to the process of making remote database connections, but it seems that there tends not to be

Answer 1

While the port 2083 is used by the host, each database uses the default port 3306 in this case.

When tested with 3306, access was denied until I added the denied IP to the host "access" list in Remote MySQL on cPanel.