Now playing Call of Duty 4 is fantastic and going up the ranks is a fix, but to tell you truth it is beginning to annoy me, I am having major Playstation 3 Cod4 connection problems, playing this awesome game online is ok and works fine if I am playing other online gamers but soon as I want to invite friends the troubles begin.

At first I thought that it may be a Tiscali problem, yes I am with broadband supplier Tiscali and yes they have had serious problems in the past, the question is “Are they still having problems? Let me explain, as said above playing online gamers allows me to connect and play away but playing friends is a no go. Well I have found a way to get connections all the time when you have troubles, what I have found is a pain in the butt each time you have to do this, but hey at least you get connected to friends.

Right obviously go to the play online section within the game, then go and invite people on your friends list which sometimes works and sometimes does not, now when trying to connect to a friends a message now and then pops up on the screen saying “Unable to connect to host” which yes makes you want to throw the controller at the TV, well don’t because I have a solution (Pain in the ass solution but it works).

If you cannot connect to a friends game or indeed your friends cannot come into your game just quit the game and go onto the Playstation menu, then go to network settings, now some of us maybe wired and some are wireless, I can go wireless or wired, in my house I have a wireless router and a plug in the socket that allows me to get broadband connection through electricity.

Now when I have troubles this is what I do:

1. Quit the game and go to menu page
2. Go to network settings.
3. Dependant on what you are on, let’s say you are set up for wired connection, all you need to do is set it up for wireless connection.
4. Once this has been set up just go back to your game and it will connect you with friends.

Obviously if you have done the above and you play a few games and you do find yourself at some point not being able to connect to your friends game all you need to do is repeat the above in reverse, just go from wireless connection back to wired and hey presto bob is your uncle and you can play games again. Go on try it.

Now I would love to know if this is a fault with Call of Duty 4 or if it is a Tiscali problem. I will see what you have to say and I will go from there. At the end of the day all I want to do is play games. Please do answer all of this and send me your replies in the comment area provided below.

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