Fwastration!

If you remember in our last post, I was singing the praises of Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat. The day after I posted that, "it" hit the fan. As near as I can tell, the issues began with PunkBuster. If you are not familiar with that program, PB is an anti-cheating program that runs with many online multi-player computer games. The problems began when I would fire up CofD4 multi-player, I would get into a game and within 30 to 45 seconds, PB would kick me out. Frustrating.
I went to the PB website and installed the latest update to PB. Now, when I go to the multi-player server screen... nothing! Not one single game would show up. Firmly believing that not everyone in the world gave up on CofD4 at the same moment, I went to my router's manufacturer's website to download a firmware update. That killed my entire home network.
It took a week and lots of trial and error to get the home network back up and running. The network is up, but still no multi-player games for CofD4. That means I get to take back all of the cool things I said about CofD4. With no multi-player, the game is a very quick First Person Shooter.
As for playing games online, very few multi-player games are showing up for Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike. My head is telling me that I'm having a firewall issue, but I disabled the firewall for a few minutes and had the same minuscule results. It looks like it's back to Peggle for me.