cds84
07-05-2011, 13:30
Hello.
Recently, i attempted to play a multi-player PC game with a friend of mine, also on vigin media living approximately one mile from myself.
The game has no online dedicated servers, to a direct connection must be established. Needless to say, we had no luck!
After some investigating, it seems that the only possible problem is at virgin media's end.. perhaps intentional blocking ?
I'm 99.99% certain my setup is correct, i went completely overkill on the pc / router settings trying to make this work.
Both windows PC had the firewall disabled.
Both routers had DMZ enabled for the PC's IP.
Both routers had icmp echo ( aka WAN PING ) enabled.
Still... no luck connecting.
At this point, I was blaming the game.. i had never used it for private matches over the internet before.
But i know from experience it works fine on LAN.
SO.. the next logical step was to bring these PC's onto the same LAN using PTP VPN.
This produced an even stranger error... windows was reporting that the remote host was not responding.
SOOO... in a last desperate act, we attempted to ping each-other.
all attempts at a ping, from either direction all timed out...
But what is VERY strange, is that we can ping eath other just fine over our 3G t-mobile wireless dongles!!!
So... to summarise..
VIRGIN-MEDIA BROADBAND -> ping -> google.com works fine!
VIRGIN-MEDIA BOARDBAND -> ping -> VIRGIN-MEDIA BOARDBAND TIMEOUT!!
T-MOBILE 3G -> ping google.com works fine.
T-MOBILE 3G -> ping VIRGIN-MEDIA BOARDBAND works fine!!
My Media centre PC runs a http web server that allows me to schedule recordings while im away... this connects fine for me from my 3G internet, and from my works BT-INTERNET connection. so i know that my internet connection isnt behind any form of NAT.
I wonder... is it just virgin media customers living close together suffering this problem ? is it a fault at virgin media's end ?
Or is it deliberately blocking us ???
Years ago,,, back when it was NTLworld i used to occasionally run a dedicated quake server from my place, and my friends living all on the same street, same service provider could connect without issue.
If any of you virgin media guys could try to ping me and post results and approximate location i would be grateful. i will leave WAN ping enabled for just today ( sat 7th may 2011 )
ping shovelsoft.homeip.net
I live in the Bestwood area of Nottingham.
THANKS!
Recently, i attempted to play a multi-player PC game with a friend of mine, also on vigin media living approximately one mile from myself.
The game has no online dedicated servers, to a direct connection must be established. Needless to say, we had no luck!
After some investigating, it seems that the only possible problem is at virgin media's end.. perhaps intentional blocking ?
I'm 99.99% certain my setup is correct, i went completely overkill on the pc / router settings trying to make this work.
Both windows PC had the firewall disabled.
Both routers had DMZ enabled for the PC's IP.
Both routers had icmp echo ( aka WAN PING ) enabled.
Still... no luck connecting.
At this point, I was blaming the game.. i had never used it for private matches over the internet before.
But i know from experience it works fine on LAN.
SO.. the next logical step was to bring these PC's onto the same LAN using PTP VPN.
This produced an even stranger error... windows was reporting that the remote host was not responding.
SOOO... in a last desperate act, we attempted to ping each-other.
all attempts at a ping, from either direction all timed out...
But what is VERY strange, is that we can ping eath other just fine over our 3G t-mobile wireless dongles!!!
So... to summarise..
VIRGIN-MEDIA BROADBAND -> ping -> google.com works fine!
VIRGIN-MEDIA BOARDBAND -> ping -> VIRGIN-MEDIA BOARDBAND TIMEOUT!!
T-MOBILE 3G -> ping google.com works fine.
T-MOBILE 3G -> ping VIRGIN-MEDIA BOARDBAND works fine!!
My Media centre PC runs a http web server that allows me to schedule recordings while im away... this connects fine for me from my 3G internet, and from my works BT-INTERNET connection. so i know that my internet connection isnt behind any form of NAT.
I wonder... is it just virgin media customers living close together suffering this problem ? is it a fault at virgin media's end ?
Or is it deliberately blocking us ???
Years ago,,, back when it was NTLworld i used to occasionally run a dedicated quake server from my place, and my friends living all on the same street, same service provider could connect without issue.
If any of you virgin media guys could try to ping me and post results and approximate location i would be grateful. i will leave WAN ping enabled for just today ( sat 7th may 2011 )
ping shovelsoft.homeip.net
I live in the Bestwood area of Nottingham.
THANKS!