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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Got my MAC code today from Tiscali!!!! The contract ends end of Feb, sod them! I’m sure their in breach of their contract by port blocking, etc. Going to try IDnet, anyone know any bad points with them?
WHAT ABOUT TIME WARNER ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING ON THAT
I work in the broadband industry and I can confirm that Tiscali ( and eventually there sister companies ) all use data streaming, this allows them to do traffic shaping alot easier than shall we say other broadband providers. The idea is so that the bandwidth is not hogged. What they fail to fully understand is that online play for COD4 uses less than 60mb an hour and if you play on average 4 hours per day that still works out less than 7GB per month. Most companies traffic shape ( and this is on extreme conditions and after several warning letters ) if you exceed more than 9.2GB per week then your usage is capped. Tiscali have major issues identifying what P2P is being used i.e the difference between bit torrent downloading and online gaming. I remember there was a mass protest regarding the World of Warcraft and eventually they released a patch to resolve the issue. I would swtich providers to either BT or Sky where online gaming is very relaxed ( within reason ).
WOW Giga, ya at least the PS3 can handle all the players online….You tards pay to play online and still your Breakbox-Please-Fix-Me can’t handle it. HAHAHAH, ya you are so funny, you should be a comedian.
I didn’t look through all the comments on this page, but does anyone know if it will affect Xbox 360 users?
Considering I will have to pay for my online gaming. :/
i am with pipex and i am movin to talk talk. is there anything wrong with them.
What like you COMMODORE ??HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Virgin media is upgrading 4mb accounts to 10mb for free now!
I always play COD4 at night because that’s the only time I’m free and I ony get disconnected from the internet like once or twice a week. I play COD4 with 10 of my friends every night till 2 or 3 in the morning and PSN works perfectly fine. If this site is trying to screw up ps3, it’s not going to work. Whoever made this article is an amateur loL no offence. I know someone eventually will call me a Sony fanboy but I’m not sorry, I own all three consoles.
I’m with BT and have this aswell so I don’t think it’s just tiscali. I read that there was a problem because of an update on the ps3 that seemed to affect this game, apparently there’s a way to get rid of it