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How to fix Sony PS3 Call of Duty 4 connection problems

By: Daniel Chubb | June 28, 2008 | 19 Comments

Call of Duty 4 connection problems

PS3 Daily have given a personal account of their experiences with Call of Duty 4 and the connection problems you get, they have wrote a detailed post about how they love the game but also have nothing but connection problems on the Sony PS3. The good news is they have found a way to fix this after presuming it to be a Tiscali problem.

While we know that many other COD4 gamers on the Tiscali broadband service have also reported this P2P problem, it must be true that Tiscali has some part to play or they would not have thousands of gamers complaining in their forums. The main problem is not with finding a game with people you do not know in COD4, but it seems to come from connecting to friends. As a Playstation 3 owner on BT, I have also seen this problem with certain friends but others seem to connect just fine.

Have you had any trouble connecting to your friends in Call of Duty 4 on the Sony PS3 or Xbox 360?

PS3 Daily is unsure if Tiscali still have the P2P problem as they said, “Are they still having problems? Let me explain, as said above playing online gamers allows me to connect and play away but playing friends is a no go. Well I have found a way to get connections all the time when you have troubles”. If they are able to get connected by changing a setting then surely it cannot be their ISP or can it?

The way they have found to get connected to friends in COD 4 seems very annoying and something I personally would not have fun doing, surely there is a better way. Maybe changing ISP’s could help. Visit PS3 Daily and see how they found a way to get connected and also let us know if you have any problems inviting friends for a game.

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  • GAME-HERO

    connection problems??? wtf there’s no conections problems, this artical is bogus!

  • http://www1.epinions.com/content_5157331076 Superdynamite

    I have 50hrs+ clocked on CoD4, PS3. I’ve never had a connection problem.

    This article is flame.

  • http://www1.epinions.com/content_5157331076 Superdynamite

    FYI: If the host (random player) disconnects, the game drops.

    There’s you connection problem.

  • Daniel

    Well, I have played for over 130 hours and have seen many problems inviting friends into a game, nothing to-do with a player hosting a game and leaving. This is with getting error 33 or errors connecting when inviting friends and connecting to friends. COD4 works with P2P and some ISp’s do not know the difference between gaming P2P and other types.

  • Mav

    It’s got nothing to do with ISPs knowing the difference between Gaming or P2P. I think you will find they know quite a bit about the subject. This is more to do with ISPs traffic managing P2P (and or torrents). This is a wide spread practice amongst ISPs. Then along comes a games mfr that decides to use a restricted traffic type and hey presto, everyone has a problem. I see two solutions:
    1) ISPs stop managing P2P
    2) Games mfrs let ISPs know in advance what protocol and ports their traffic will use.
    Sadly I can’t see either happening, but you never know :o )

  • V

    this is true espically if ur on tiscali, it was fine at first but then i couldnt log on at peak times, one reason is the fact that call of duty 4 multplayer uses p2p technology for their online gaming,

  • WazOOka

    Umm….how do i get an account for COD4 online for PS3….how much is it????

  • jay ripper

    I’ve had nothing but problems trying to connect with my friends. I cant even pull my friend into my party under my name in my party list, and have only been pulled into another persons party under their name once. Im about to smash my ps3, Call of duty 4, and my headset. The only reason I bought all of them and got an online accoount was to play with my friend online!

  • Luke Kuykendall

    Yeah Playstation Network has alot of problems with their connection status in games like Call of Duty 4 & 5. I myslef have experienced these problems. I currently am subscribed to a digital cable service with their internet gold package. I have had a number of problems with the wi-fi signal especially recently over the last couple months. Even when I have a router directly next to my PS3 I maximize a 3 bar connection status with lag. I tried using a straight ethernet cable out of my router into my PS3 and had the same results 2-3 bars connection status. Playstation needs to fix their upgrade the quality of their network and start charging monthly fees.

  • slapurself

    Luke, I completely agree with the monthly fee ideas… it is too expensive to run servers and PSN is falling behind on that. They simply dont have enough space for everyone unlike xbox360.. they have WIIIICKED servers because they charge people… u get what u pay for :)

    Best solution: CHARGE ANNUAL FEE!!!!!!

  • GAME-HERO

    Go ahead a pay $50.00 dollars for a annual fee with all those BS advertisments and while your at it pay for another “fricken bricked” 360 because your red ring warranty is OVER! I’m surprised u bots can even hear COD with all that NOISE coming from your disc drive…

  • Z

    First thing that happens when I log into the online multiplayer on COD is I get a connection error. Then I may or may not be able to invite friends, even those that have worked fine countless times before. There seems to be no consistancy in these connection errors that I can tell.

    These are connection errors when building a party of friends, not in-game or finding a game. It really urks me, since so many of my friends and I bought this game to play online as a team.

  • RAP2k8

    for all people saying there in no connection problem, there is. me and many of my friends had it!! and its annoying as hell, we can sometimes connect to each other or eachother’s host but sometimes we just cant…. sometimes it works wen we make someone else host and invite the other person, VERY ANNOYING

  • paulpursell

    not one problem how about all u name it sometimes i get to keep my headshots and sometimes get to play online i have embarq 5 gig and still lag and get nasty comments if they charge it better work mabe a new xbox owner paul pursell ps3 fix it or lose us i have had one good connection and its not my pc works fine dsl said its ps3 server not them feed up

  • greatfall

    when i clik on sheach game he writ downloding game settin afther i choice team dedmach and he cant going on a game??he serach all time.. help me plz

  • goodfella44

    having same problem … after game selection keeps getting stuck on down loading game settings

  • Harvey Feltersnatch

    On MW2 I get 4 bars all the time. I recently put COD4 MW in and I had 2 bars in most cases and 3 bars once in a while. I pay for faster internet and I still get two bars. I've never had any trouble connecting with friends though. Why is the connection shit?

  • sheron

    same here

  • zaga

    i got to the point of having to restar my ps3 at least once every hour some days