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    BF4 displays "-" instead of ping

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      scurrier
      last edited by

      Did you try looking into static ports?
      https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=6042.0

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        Marc05
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        Last time I dealt with this issue, it had to do with port forwarding. Make sure that you add the necessary game executables (not just bf4.exe) to your PC Firewall, and make sure that port-forwarding is set up correctly on pfSense.

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          autotalon
          last edited by

          Just wanted to reply that the issue has something to do with one of the hardware offloading settings.  I'm testing to figure out which one for sure is.

          EDIT: It's "Hardware TCP Segmentation Offload".  The other two work fine.

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          • KOMK
            KOM
            last edited by

            EDIT: It's "Hardware TCP Segmentation Offload".  The other two work fine.

            Which version of pfSense are you using?  This setting is disabled by default.

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              doktornotor Banned
              last edited by

              @KOM:

              This setting is disabled by default.

              … for a damn good reason.

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                autotalon
                last edited by

                @doktornotor:

                @KOM:

                This setting is disabled by default.

                … for a damn good reason.

                Latest version usually.

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                • KOMK
                  KOM
                  last edited by

                  So did you enable this feature??  It's disabled by default, like I said.  How did it become active?  I hope you weren't just clicking on things and hoping.

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                    Cargo
                    last edited by

                    So, what was a decision? Or you didn't solve the problem?

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                      Navok
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                      The ingame ping value is determined by calling/"pinging" battlelog.battlefield.com via Port80/443

                      Had the same problem on our 400+ people Lan Party. Firewall was set up with TrafficShaping/QOS optimized for gaming. Even they could play without any lags, the ingame PING shows something with 1000ms and above and player get kicked for high ping after a while. Later we discovered that the client doesn't use ICMP to discover the ping. Instead the ping was high because port 80/443 was "punished" in traffic shaping/QOS. After prioritize battlelog.battlefield.com in QOS/TS the pings was good again.

                      Hope this helps.

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                        Patrix87
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                        @Navok:

                        The ingame ping value is determined by calling/"pinging" battlelog.battlefield.com via Port80/443

                        Had the same problem on our 400+ people Lan Party. Firewall was set up with TrafficShaping/QOS optimized for gaming. Even they could play without any lags, the ingame PING shows something with 1000ms and above and player get kicked for high ping after a while. Later we discovered that the client doesn't use ICMP to discover the ping. Instead the ping was high because port 80/443 was "punished" in traffic shaping/QOS. After prioritize battlelog.battlefield.com in QOS/TS the pings was good again.

                        Hope this helps.

                        Hi, would you mind explaining how you did that ?

                        Thanks !

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