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No Ping in games 02/Tesco Mobile Broadband

  • 29-03-2014 12:32am
    #1
    Nobodybutme
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭


    Hi, I hope this is the right place to post:
    I just switched to Tesco mobile broadband today to try it out.
    In Battlefield 4 (on PC) no pings show either in the Battlelog loadout/multiplayer menu or in-game.
    Also the 'recommended servers' do not load and seem constantly stuck in a downloading loop.

    I'm using the exact same Huawei E5220 wireless dongle that my Meteor sim card would show pings with earlier today.
    I used to have the same no ping issue with o2 (and Tesco is using o2 I believe) so is this just an o2 'thing' or is there any way to make pings show up at all?

    I tried temporarily turning off my firewall to see if that was blocking anything but no change.





    Thanks in advance.
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  • #2
    lmimmfn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    ICMP is blocked either on the dongle or on the ISP side, open a dos shell and run ping boards.is
    What does it show?

    Ignoring idiots who comment "far right" because they don't even know what it means



  • #3
    Nobodybutme
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭Nobodybutme


    Hi, thanks for the reply.
    I pinged boards.ie and this is the result:
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.

    Ping statistics for 89.234.66.108:
    Packets: sent = 4, Received =0. Lost = 4 (100% loss)


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I believe Tesco block ICMP traffic. I can't use ping apps on my phone via 3G either.


  • #5
    Nobodybutme
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭Nobodybutme


    Karsini, thanks for clearing that up.


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