It just seems more and more problems have been deriving out of Infinity Ward’s decision to neglect dedicated server support and their last minute plan P2P announcement with IW.net.

Gamers has been complaining that IW.net leads to threats from termination from their ISPs for “running servers on their home connection” and “excessive file sharing through peer to peer connections.” I am by no means an ISP security expert but I believe you have got to spend a whole lot of time playing to bring up that red flag.

Several gamers have been downgraded to dial-up or spend hectic phone conversations explaining the dilemma to their ISPs, some even faced higher phone bill charges. IW.net forces a good portion of MW2 players to violate the terms of most ISP providers as you can see here. I am curious, any of our readers have this issue yet?

I received a letter from time-warner cable which I would type out but it would take me 20 minutes. the letter basically says that they think I have a virus thats sending/receiving information.”when computers that are connected to the network become infected with viruses and other intrusions, serious problems can arise, such as degradation of network performance and he infection of other users” It directs to link for virus removal. I can assure you I do not have a virus as I did a fresh install of windows 7 the day before mw2 came out. I dont open any emails, and really the only thing I do on that computer is play games. Its my gaming computer, I use my laptop for everything else and I know 100% I do not have a virus nor have I had.

They say “We ask you to bear in mind that continued violations of the road runner acceptable use policy can result in suspension or even termination of your road runner account”

This is complete and utter bull crap. Thanks Infinity Ward/Activision for nearly getting my internet shutoff. Im done with this game.

Source: http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=203408#p3226134

I got a call from my ISP saying this:

Dear Customer

It has come to our attention that you are running servers on your home connection.

While this is not allowed, we inform you that measurements can be taken when continuos usage.

We regret to inform you that hosting servers at your home connection is not allowed, we have special packages for server connections.

Now this is translated from my native language, I had to call up my ISP and tell them the problem.

This is a serious problem, IW is just using your computer to host the games.

I work as a network admin myself and had to explain myself to my ISP why this is happening.

Most of the times i’m leaving games that i’m hosting because i don’t want my connection to be used as gameserver.

IW fails to see that UPnP and a open NAT is dangerous to your network.

Source: http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=203272 (Deleted topic)

Yeah now peoples internet bills are coming in, everyone is getting things like this. My friend got stuck with a $40 addition to his internet bill. Hes since deleted his game and wont touch it again because its not hardly worth that type of expense

Source: http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=203408#p3226180

i’ve already gotten a mail from my isp telling me they are reducing my 20 meg line to dial up speed for the next month for “excessive file sharing through peer to peer connections” and i will be cut off if i persist.

tried telling them that its a pc game thats causing it, their reply is pc games do not use p2p

Source: http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=203408#p3226954

Source: Multiple Infinity Ward Forums via Modernwarfail2

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