No Ping in games 02/Tesco Mobile Broadband

Nobodybutme · 28-03-2014 11:32PM #1

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.

lmimmfn · 29-03-2014 11:54AM

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?

Nobodybutme · 29-03-2014 12:28PM

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)

31-03-2014 12:14AM

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

Nobodybutme · 31-03-2014 10:42AM

Karsini, thanks for clearing that up.

No Ping in games 02/Tesco Mobile Broadband

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