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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am DO NOT USE TALK=TALK they are even WORSE than Tiscali..TRUST me, they are nice and cheap BUT you pay for you get,,Helping you out friend :>)
Everyone should switch to sky broadband, its cheap and fast, i’ve had it for a year now and have not lost connection once, i can play any games online with my ps3
Its not just PS3’s and COD4 which are having the problem. odd spin you put on this.
Addman, thats who I’ve just migrated to (goes through tonight) so I’m glad to here that it works fine.
I used to have this problem with Tiscali as far back as 5 months ago. On one occassion speaking to their call centre in India or wherever they even confirmed ports were blocked and shaped at different time most between 6pm and midnight. Obviously being a online gamer I cancelled immediately and moved over to BT. Have not had one problem since and even now got Homehub (excellent router), Internet phone and free vision box (a HDD recorder). True BT is more expensive but suppose you get what you pay for really thats why Tiscali is £4.99 a month or whatever ridicolous price it is now.
If your a gamer or use P2P or download basically anything stay well clear of Tiscali and associated companies.
I had a problem at the start of the year with pipex, basically i could not connect to PSN at all from 5:30PM until 11PM, i dropped them an email stating i would stop using them, then a couple of days later i could connect again, although when playing COD4 i found i was being disconnected very rapidly, i could get into a game, but after two seconds or so i would be disconnected from PSN altogether.
Someone informed me to set the MTU on my BB router to 1400, whioch i have done, and so far have had no issues since doing so.
you get what you pay for. you pay nothing for that shabby PSN and obiously there are problems. or why isnt it a problem with XBL and Tiscali??
LOL, you fony boys crack me up, waiting beyong instead of jumping in, how “not smart”, LOL
my cod4 works great,all day and all night.loven it. p.s , WHERE THE HELL IS SOCOM 4 OR IS IT 5?
AND IT BETTER BE GOOD……………….
Has this been resolved as I’ve been playing ok all times of the day on COD4 and I’m with tscali. I have noticed my P2P downloads are always really slow takes a week to download a dvds worth.