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10 years ago

Cannot connect to EA server through University Internet

Hi! I have a PS4 and Battlefield 1. I recently moved to university, and brought my game and console with me. I have managed to connect my console to the University internet (internet is called ...

battlefield 1

EA_Barry

Community Manager

10 years ago

@Uare2noob

Provide the following port info to your Network Administrator and ask nicely if those could be opened for you, then make up some plausible reason why playing BF1 is vital to your education 😉

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/opening-tcp-or-udp-ports-for-connection-issues

Anonymous
8 years ago
I can only connect to local servers (US East) but there are only ever European servers online since the game is old. Would asking my university to open ports fix this problem or is the internet just not good enough?
- iluminatethesky
  Legend
  8 years ago
  Hey @-DG-ISSpaniel,
  I suggest trying the following Connection steps:
  https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/connection-troubleshooting-basic/
  If need be, asking to open the suggested Ports for Battlefield 1 would work as well.
  Here are the steps:
  https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/opening-tcp-or-udp-ports-for-connection-issues/
  Hope this helps.
  
  Thanks 🙂
- Ourumov13
  Legend
  8 years ago
  @-DG-ISSpaniel
  
  I´m locking this thread because necroposting is not allowed, it is almost 2 years old.
  
  Please create your own topic if the advice @iluminatethesky gave you did not work.
  
  Thank you 🙂