battlefield 4 ping kick
I keep getting kicked from servers from a "ping enforcer", I literally cannot play the game anymore because these ridiculous requirements.
I'm so sick of this happening, I just want to play the product I bought, I've enjoyed BF4 on console for years and yet when I migrate over to pc I get kicked by 12 year old admins that enforce ping requirements. This doesn't happen in BF1 or BF3 so what the hell is going on. I'm gonna try to brute force this out on my end tomorrow and see if there's any particular BS that is on my router causing this, not that I have any f-ing idea of what to look for in terms of fixes, but any help would be appreciated.
I have googled this problem to hell and back and people blame this on the ISP and router, but don't specify what is wrong or how to fix it.
Here's a video of it happening (https://clips.twitch.tv/GloriousHelpfulPangolinHassanChop) and a screenshot of my ping as it is right now in every single lobby, and also a screenshot of speedest.com showing my actual ping to a LA server, so I at least know its not intentionally hidden. The owner of my router does not want to do a DMZ because its "dangerous" to our network letting "hackers take our personal info" which I don't know what to believe there, plus my ISP is local and kind of * to be honest, but we don't have much of a choice in terms of ISP.
@thatlunchboxguyhello mate,
i see on the 1st screenshot that you have no ping shown, which some admins ban on purpose because some clever cheaters are using vpns to play, avoid bans and IP region locks.
I read your router owner doesn't understand what a DMZ is.....actually it's the SAFEST place between your lan and the net....this is the WHOLE purpose of the DMZ: maybe you can link a wikipedia page to your friend (fyi i'm a CISCO network admin)
Some large network resellers have set up a large MAN (metropolitan area network) which you do connect but resulting you being not fully exposed to the net: read YOU + XXX people => ISP "private" NETWORK IP class (MAN) => ISP FIREWALL/DNS filter/routing apparates => NET
normally you won't have that "firewall/DNS filter/packet routing from private lan to the net" or it's just a trasparent one which just "let" traffic go from you to the net and viceversa. If your ISP do have that "MAN and firewall/DNS filter(etc..)" you aren't completely visible to the net and other users like ping services used by punkbuster/heartbeat from EA server hence you get kicked.
Basically another cause more plausible it's "your" modem/router firewall and its routing made strict by the owner: closing certain port ranges and services, port triggering/natting of those ports BF needs being used and routed to other IPs on your lan, network shaping (QoS) which may sound the true cause of your problem
you can ping via command (start => cmd => ping ipaddress) if you know which ip has the server or just ping google.com and see how many hops you have before reaching the host.
use tracert: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/314868/how-to-use-tracert-to-troubleshoot-tcp-ip-problems-in-windows
sorry for the long post 🙂 and let me know if this solved your issue!!!!
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