LIZARD SQUAD is Back. Planning XBL Attack. "Biggest attack yet". [UP: XBL/PSN Down]

atpbx said:
Are some people still struggling with PSN?

I was back online around 10pm last night UK and playing with some Yanks no problem, it's been up all day today as well.
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Yeah,ive been fine all day here.

Finished installing Dragon Age and downloaded Sherlock Holmes (which is 8gb).

Did the MTU trick though.
 
Surely setting your MTU on your console only affects the traffic going to your router. The settings on your router will then come into effect for traffic going to the internet?
 
This is disappointing.

So, got my PS4 today. Tried to connect my PSN account and couldn't, for obvious reasons. Left it for a bit to deal with kids and usual house hold guff.

Came back again tonight, tried again - same issue. Read online about changing the MTU settings to 1473. Did that and managed to get onto the account setup (adjusting permissions and what not). Get right to the end of the setup, then I get an 'error occured during communication with the server' message and I need to go through the whole process again only to get the same error over and over.

I have a digital code for The Last of Us that I'm desperate to redeem and my xmas holidays are rapidly coming to an end. Just wish Sony would come out and give us some sort of time frame when things will be back to normal.
 
I have yet to change mine back to 1500
If I was not internet savy and visited various forums I would probably still be offline now possibly.

PSN worked like a champ all last night and today though, Messaging and Invites were top notch and no lag at all.

No complaints here
 
prwxv3 said:
what a bunch of fanboy assholes.
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Exactly what I said before. They're platform warriors taking console warz to the next level by fucking with other people's enjoyment.

Pieces of shit.

Edit: might as well add I've had full PSN access since last night. Managed to install my new HDD a little bit ago and I'm now re downloading all my games. Hope nothing else happens and everyone else is back to normal ASAP
 
A friend just passed me this. Don't know if true.

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kitch9 said:
Loads here saying it was up and perfect 24 hours after attack started, in this very thread.

Dreamers it appears
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Well, it has been working fine for me since the evening of Christmas. I haven't had a single problem. On PSN, I've been able to log in but the store has been flakey, often timing out before I can make a purchase. It is a bit better today as the day goes on at least.

Just my experience.
 
Ubersnug said:
By chance, are people suggesting that different MTU values give difference levels of success when connecting to PSN?
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I can't figure out why it should be the case but I definitely can't log in with the automatic default value of 1500.

Yesterday I got in by setting it to 1473, today similar (after setting it back to auto/1500 last night) although I actually transposed the last two numbers by accident so 1437 worked for me too.

Still nada at auto/1500. It doesn't make much sense to me.
 
ShinUltramanJ said:
Exactly what I said before. They're platform warriors taking console warz to the next level by fucking with other people's enjoyment.

Pieces of shit.
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The only people losing out are the consumers of xbone and ps4

Too many innocent victims in warfare these days, even of the console variety.

Unforgivable

3rd world issues
 
GhaleonEB said:
This worked for me. Kudos.

What the heck is MTU for the non-network savvy?
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So you want to log in easy then your router must send information in ONE part, not broken into 2 bits..

So MTU being the size of the file sent by your router....must be low enough to send info in 1 CHUNK.

But MTU = 1473 is only correct for 1 router, its wrong to put this in for everyone (but low enough to probably help).

MTU = header (28 bits) + data ( x bits)


For my router the max it can PING is 1472,. therefore my MTU = 1472+ 28 = 1492.

Yes I could use 1473 but it would be sending less information than I can and lower my Ps4 band width. This is silly.

Note : Everyone should have MTU between 1450 and 1500 with a decent internet.

The higher it is the more data is sent and better your Ps4 Upload / download, but if it goes too high for your router / Line you are connected to then it will be sent in 2 chunks.

This is bad and does not help your ping once MTU is too big,
 
Surely Lizard Squad is playing with Fire here. Can they go on at this pace without eventually getting busted? Eventually the FEDs will have to get involved.
 
Marvel said:
Had full access to XBL since the evening of the 25th.
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Haven't been quite that lucky myself, but XBL has been fully functional since early morning on the 26th, albeit a bit prone to random dropouts on the real-time updates of the friends list and the activity list to the right of the home screen since then. PSN allowed me onto the store starting about a day ago, thanks to the MTU change, but online play is a no-go regardless of games I try, granted I don't have all of the online-playable PS4 games at my disposal thanks to its secondary console status in my household.
 
Special C said:
Surely Lizard Squad is playing with Fire here. Can they go on at this pace without eventually getting busted? Eventually the FEDs will have to get involved.
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There is only so much the Feds can do when the crime is being committed from another country
 
prwxv3 said:
DDOS is not hacking you can't get sensitive information from DDOSing. Any company get get DDOSed easily (unless you have huge server farms like amazon, google, ect. where they can migrate traffic). MS have been able to migrate traffic much easier then Sony because they have azure. Sony dont that the luxury and for them to get something like azure to just combat DDOS would be a major waste. They should be improving PSN a ton but not for protection against DDOS.
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Why shouldn't they be investing to protect against ddos as a priority? This has happened twice in a few months and, if anything, will probably happen with greater frequency. What's a more important investment than making sure your customers don't lose service once a month for a day or two at a time?

Yeah it sucks they need to deal with it at all, but it's the reality at hand.
 
I've had at least 2 trophies that I should have unlocked today, not unlock.

Is this a known problem with this hack or with PSN downtime in general? I've not been around the PS4 since all this kicked off until today.
 
Just restarted my PS4 for the first time since Christmas after reading Sonys announcement that PSN is back online. I get a "the connection to the server has been terminated" message every time I try to log in. GG Sony, thanks for that.
 
Bumhead said:
I've had at least 2 trophies that I should have unlocked today, not unlock.

Is this a known problem with this hack or with PSN downtime in general? I've not been around the PS4 since all this kicked off until today.
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Not sure. I earned two TEW trophies while it was down, and when it came back up they appeared and had the correct times as well.
 
edgefusion said:
Just restarted my PS4 for the first time since Christmas after reading Sonys announcement that PSN is back online. I get a "the connection to the server has been terminated" message every time I try to log in. GG Sony, thanks for that.
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Same here. Same thing I was getting all last night. Sony's fixed nothing as far as my connection to their servers is concerned.
 
Ubersnug said:
Is this a US thing as I didn't come across anything inside my PS4 box about a free game?
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It's definitely a US thing. Not sure if it's also a Canadian/European promotion though. I bought one the other day for 329 bucks (price matched Walmart) for my nephew. He loved the gift until he learned that he wouldn't be using it for awhile. He still can't download the free game, but unlike me he can connect to PSN today.
 
Boke1879 said:
Probably offering it as a possible fix
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Yeah, hard to see that doing much though - and they're openly saying everything is fully operational, yet countless people are contesting that.

Count me in that, manual MTU works, but if I stick it back on automatic it doesn't work. Clearly something is still borked their end but they're denying it.
 
Was able to log in last night and now nothing. Seriously Sony. This shit is unacceptable. I honestly hope the gaming media BLASTS them tomorrow for their incompetence on getting their network up and running in a timely manner.
 
Boke1879 said:
Was able to log in last night and now nothing. Seriously Sony. This shit is unacceptable. I honestly hope the gaming media BLASTS them tomorrow for their incompetence on getting their network up and running in a timely manner.
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My only hope is that they 'took their time', and made sure they are restoring things properly. Taking time to check and audit things to make sure that thanks to the flood of data they didn't miss any actual breaches. DDoS can be a good cloak for that.
 
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