EDIT to the previous post:
after taking screen snapshots with NetworkMiner showing packets exchanges in both directions, sent and received, I started having all sessions with "Sent: 0 packets", like this one on mpserver01.flightgear.org (serv01.endevour.de):
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IP: 217.78.131.44
MAC: Unknown
Hostname:
OS: Unknown
TTL: Unknown
Open TCP Ports:
Sent: 0 packets (0 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
Received: 1734 packets (1,199,928 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
192.168.1.101 [QUADW81D] (Windows) -> 217.78.131.44 : 1734 packets (1,199,928 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
UDP: 6000 -> 5000 : 1734 packets (1,199,928 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
I phoned the new ISP support (more than once actually, they tell me "try this" and we agree that I'd try and call again).
One of them had the idea of turning on the wifi part of their modem again (I preferred my router wifi as I can set the radio to minimum power and it's easier to switch off-on).
This makes ping possible...
Yes, bad enough: I had forgotten to mention I couldn't ping through the new provider optical fiber /coax connection... anyway through the old provider ADSL connection, even with firewall on and ping not possible, FlightGear works fine in multiplayer connection. No problem pinging now through the new provider connection as well as through the old provider ADSL connection, provided (*), with both, that I turn the Windows firewall off (I had tried a bunch of commands I got from the web to activate ICMP through this firewall with no success).
Yes, wifi ON or OFF has nothing to do with pinging over the ethernet connection of their modem, it looks like a bug in the modem firmware.
Otherwise, nothing else changed when connected with the new provider:
I have nobody in the pilots list, I see other aircrafts on
http://mpmap02.flightgear.org/ but not mine, NetworkMiner says "Sent 0 packets".
(*) Warning to anybody trying similar maneuvers: this NetworkMiner tool also shows me that whenever I lower the firewall, there's some exchange of files... mainly .cer files, certificates, I immediately unlinked Dropbox, and changed password through their web interface, I don't think I have any other piece of data potentially constituting an access key to anything "sensible", I never store passwords and I don't do homebanking on this machine, but anybody tweackling like this is warned.
EDIT: apparently a few packets are now passing through, but nothing changes (plugging the ADSL connection I have MP ok, otherwise: nobody in pilot list and my aircraft doesn't show up in the mpmap02 server. With both connections: FG echo test works fine, built-in terrasync works fine). This is a short session with mpserver02.flightgear.org through the optical fiber / coax connection giving me this problem:
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IP: 64.69.45.88
MAC: Unknown
Hostname: mpserver02.flightgear.org
OS: Unknown
TTL: 51 (distance: 13)
Open TCP Ports:
Sent: 59 packets (51,184 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
64.69.45.88 [mpserver02.flightgear.org] -> 192.168.1.101 (Windows) : 59 packets (51,184 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
UDP: 5000 -> 6000 : 59 packets (51,184 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
Received: 173 packets (169,196 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
192.168.1.101 (Windows) -> 64.69.45.88 [mpserver02.flightgear.org] : 196 packets (191,552 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
UDP: 6000 -> 5000 : 196 packets (191,552 Bytes), 0.00 % cleartext (0 of 0 Bytes)
Incoming sessions: 0
Outgoing sessions: 0
Well, I'm currently living in Argentina, I'd really like to sort this out because for work purposes I need the greater bandwidth and stability of the optical fiber connection (Fibertel Argentina) over the ADSL one with tendence to spare gateway bandwidth (Speedy/Telefónica Argentina), but I'd really like to maintain the possibility to fly in MP, I have the honor to have given some contribution (tests and a few ideas for features) to Icetail, aka Nikolai, the
brilliant developer of my favorite aircraft, the JA37 Viggen, and part of it requires meeting another JA37 and other aircrafts in MP.
Please, is anybody successfully connecting in MultiPlayer through Fibertel Argentina?EDIT: one openminded guy of Fibertel tech support called the next support level in, I received a call in less than one hour, the person updated this modem firmware remotely, yet he recognized it's still behaving strangely, so they're coming in two days bringing one or more simpler modems to test (I don't need their modem to have wifi radio).
For anybody possibly having or going to have a similar issue: the modem is Motorola SBG901.
It calls my attention, however, that anything else is working fine now, the built-in Terrasync and FGCom work fine as before, Skype, Hangouts, even Jamulus which needs to ping servers, even with the Windows 8.1 firewall on ("general failure" is the normal result of pinging through this firewall even running cmd as admin). The only thing which isn't working is the MultiPlayer connection in FlightGear, even now that I can ping mpservers and get their reply. MultiPlayer is ok just plugging into the ADSL connection....