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Re: Online gaming

JoshLemmon
Visitor

Hi, im having a similar issue. I’ve recently changed to an EE 4G hub and it won’t let me run any games through the Blizzard Launcher on my PC. It just says ‘initialising’ and stays at 0%. However when I connect it to my old BT Wifi it runs the games with no problem.(I’ve still got 2 weeks left on that contract).

do you know what could be causing this and anything I can do to get around it?

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XRaySpeX
Grand Master
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@JoshLemmon : You are probably finding yourself up against a limitation of EE's mobile network. The EE mobile network uses Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) resulting in a double NAT, which games consoles often object to, which means you don't get your own public IP address but share it with other users. So you can't be uniquely id'ed on the Net & therefore your LAN cannot be addressed from outside for unsolicited accesses. This is unlike fixed BB. 

If this occurs there is nowt you can do to avoid it.

IMHO the EE mobile network is not really suitable for gaming.

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