Tiscali stops all Sony PS3 owners playing Call of Duty 4 (COD4) Online
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: January 29, 2008 | 51 Comments
Its hard to know where to start with this issue, simply put Tiscali are stopping all Sony PS3 owners playing Call of Duty 4 Online at certain times (mostly the whole evening up to 12 midnight).
I first looked into this when I could not connect to games on my Playstation 3 and got “error 33” with Call of Duty 4, and also having many other connection problems in the game.
After a little research I found out I was not the only one with these problems and even more amazingly nearly everyone was a Tiscali or Pipex (owned by Tiscali) customer.
I have read all 41 pages on a Tiscali forum, which shows many of the ISP’s users moving away to another broadband provider and getting their Mac codes.
It looks like the issue is COD4 uses P2P to find games and Tiscali are blocking this at certain times…they are going to lose thousands of their customers over this if its not fixed fast.
The reason this has affected so many people is because COD4 is not the only game using P2P when gaming and lots of gamers playing other games are affected. You can read all 41+ pages here on Tiscali’s forum and there are many other sites with thousands of other gamers complaining.
Now we are left with the questions:
Are Tiscali legally allowed to block gamers from playing games online?
Will they ever bother to fix it if they are allowed?
Leave a comment below if you have been affected by this Tiscali problem, also tell us what games system you are using and what game.
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i know they block ports in the evening cause i do torrents. as for sony and cod4 doing a p2p thing when playn games,shoulda got a xbox 360 cause i never had any problems with xbox 360 and tiscali.been with tiscali for three years now,if i werent moving to oz i would most likely switch in the future tho.
I’m with Toucan and have the issue
They allow p2p and gaming outside of there peak hours something like 6-11pm but unfortunately thats the time i’d often want to use it rendering there broadband rubbish as even stuff like PSN is really unreliable.
I have migrated away from their poor network, it slows to a crawl after 6pm, hopefully my next provider is better.
I had the same problem with Pipex,Traffic managment they call it !! whitch means they can & will restrict your ports at peek times, it seems most of the bigger isp’s use it,sucks really you pay for a service ! what difference should it make using ps3 or pc for gaming.I changed to Idnet(no traffic managment) f*ck Pipex and all those traffic managed isp’s.
Really it’s kinda not the IP’s fault(Tiscali and the sort), well except from what I’ve heard that they do traffic management because if they didn’t they would get charged more by those they hire the lines from, namely BT and Virgin.
Which is rubbish, just tell them your not happy with their service and fell like your not getting what you paid for and that you are seriously thinking of backing out of there company, that usually gets there ass in gear.
something has to be done about this. COD4, is the highest played game on PS3 (pretty positive about this).
This was the final straw for me, had endless problems with tiscali over the last few months. They don’t seem to care, I called them up to cancel, said i had a cheaper option elsewhere. They offered me a cheaper rate, so I then said i wasn’t happy about the ps3 thing. They had no comeback to this, so said they’d send the mac code within 5 days, so I’m off to O2, £7.50 a month
to the chubby one
too bad your on a one year contract! tiscali have (censored) you just like all their other customers including me formally
Ok, I have a strongly sourced rumour that Tiscali broadband are going to change their name YET AGAIN this time to TESTICLE broadband, simply because they suck !! Good Move Tiscali.. Shares will go down the toilet, excuse the PUN!!
i play cod 4 online on the x360 but this is totally unfair 4 the customers who purchased the game nd console….seeing as they PAY 4 THE SHITTY TISCALI SERVICE!!!!!!!! Just change company…….simple
I’m with BT and I have the same problems. Maybe it’s all the companies fault. I think all ps3 users should threaten to stop using their phone lines. It is also probably the game developers fault for not thinking of this, why is xbox different?