Help with Port Forwarding!

[ColinTaylor]

Sorry BENBOBBY, I'm with Virgin Media so I don't know about BT. But I will say that it would be extremely unlikely BT are blocking those ports.

What I can say is that I have played quite a few online games (CoD, driving games, etc) over the years on the PC, PS3 and PS4. All have worked without problem and without requiring any manual port forwarding. Only UPnP is required.

The timeout on your ping result is normal. Pings are ICMP packets and not all routers respond to them. The only thing you are interested in is the response from the final destination. In fact your pings to that server are better than mine...

C:\Users\Colin>tracert 176.57.184.85

Tracing route to 176.57.184.85 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    11 ms     8 ms     9 ms  brig-core-2a-xe-111-0.network.virginmedia.net [80.3.67.73]
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5    14 ms    18 ms    29 ms  brnt-bb-1c-ae1-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.102]
  6    13 ms    18 ms    12 ms  m686-mp2.cvx1-b.lis.dial.ntli.net [62.254.42.174]
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9    33 ms    50 ms    53 ms  uk-lon01b-rd1-ae12-0.aorta.net [84.116.130.14]
10    35 ms    30 ms    31 ms  de-fra01b-ri2-ae29-0.aorta.net [84.116.134.162]
11    32 ms    31 ms    33 ms  213.46.177.34
12    42 ms    33 ms    40 ms  link11.ociris.com [80.95.152.210]
13    32 ms    31 ms    31 ms  176.57.184.85

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Colin>ping 176.57.184.85

Pinging 176.57.184.85 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 176.57.184.85: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=116
Reply from 176.57.184.85: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=116
Reply from 176.57.184.85: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=116
Reply from 176.57.184.85: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=116

Ping statistics for 176.57.184.85:
  Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
  Minimum = 29ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 32ms

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