PSN connection problems (12/24)

Adjusting MTU worked for me as well. Since I was curious, I went back and tried to log on with default after succesfully getting on with the changed MTU settings and it did not work, so it's definitely benefitted by changing MTU settings.

For those that are on, are you able to search for other users? I was able to play fine, but searching by user name was not working for me at all.
 
Jest Chillin said:
It apparently has to do with packet sizes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit

What I find interesting in this wiki article is this section, though I won't feign to completely understand it.



Though it's be said by others (that clearly understand this better than I do) that adjusting the MTU to 147X is such a small adjustment that it shouldn't really have much of an effect anyways. So.. /shrug
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Edit: removed rushed bad analogy! Just think of MTU as maximum packet size but it doesn't mean you must send that big. Its likely that login packets are well under maximum so this fix is odd (even though it definitely works!)
 
I haven't being able to log into psn since noon christmas day. Still getting the "terminated" NW-31194-8. message. Guess ill try the MTU thing in awhile. This is ridiculous though, like unexceptionable(edit Unacceptable!) levels of ridiculousness, specially if the attack has long stopped.
 
My PS4 was finally able to connect last night. Which is a good thing because I was dying to update my trophies from finishing Dragon Age: Inquisition side areas over the last few days!
 
Lord of Castamere said:
Last night I was able to get in, create a Japanese account, and download 2 demos. Today? Nothing... ):
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Yeah, I managed to get signed in last night for a bit, but I sill could not play any games online. However, today, it's back to being completely busted the same way since Xmas Eve night. Meanwhile, my Xbox One is still up and running after just being spotty Xmas afternoon and night.
 
nothing. still nothing. i managed to connect a couple days ago and said "well, that's that." put it to sleep and went to lunch.

i haven't connected since.
 
Chabbles said:
I haven't being able to log into psn since noon christmas day. Still getting the "terminated" NW-31194-8. message. Guess ill try the MTU thing in awhile. This is ridiculous though, like unexceptionable(edit Unacceptable!) levels of ridiculousness, specially if the attack has long stopped.
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I truly hope Sony took this opportunity to improve/upgrade its network security. This is the time to do it.

I was able to long in this morning (US), but I just went back to FC4 single-player. This whole XBL/PSN downtime got me into some single-player gaming which I'd neglected.
 
So this is as good of place as any to ask this question. New PS4 owner here. I know PSN has been having issues, so I don't know if it's more to do with that or whatever, but... are the messages always so fucking slow at sending and receiving? I'll get a notification that I have a message, but it just sits there refreshing for what feels like 1-2 minutes until I actually get it. And sometimes the message gets stuck on 97% when I'm sending for like 30s, too. It's really stupid if this is how it normally because the PS3 messaging system was a lot faster.

Also, is there no way to have notifications when you get messages in a chat party? It did this on the PS3, but nope, not here. To be honest, I'm not really all that impressed with the PS4 as far as options and features goes. My brother and his wife had a baby over the holidays, and I took some video of it. I tried to play it on the PS4 but nope, it wouldn't play a MP4 file. I had to use the PS3 to do that. Like wtf?
 
SoraanTribal said:
So this is as good of place as any to ask this question. New PS4 owner here. I know PSN has been having issues, so I don't know if it's more to do with that or whatever, but... are the messages always so fucking slow at sending and receiving? I'll get a notification that I have a message, but it just sits there refreshing for what feels like 1-2 minutes until I actually get it. And sometimes the message gets stuck on 97% when I'm sending for like 30s, too. It's really stupid if this is how it normally because the PS3 messaging system was a lot faster.

Also, is there no way to have notifications when you get messages in a chat party? It did this on the PS3, but nope, not here. To be honest, I'm not really all that impressed with the PS4 as far as options and features goes. My brother and his wife had a baby over the holidays, and I took some video of it. I tried to play it on the PS4 but nope, it wouldn't play a MP4 file. I had to use the PS3 to do that. Like wtf?
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Yeah, I kind of would like an answer for this too if anyone has one.
 
SoraanTribal said:
So this is as good of place as any to ask this question. New PS4 owner here. I know PSN has been having issues, so I don't know if it's more to do with that or whatever, but... are the messages always so fucking slow at sending and receiving? I'll get a notification that I have a message, but it just sits there refreshing for what feels like 1-2 minutes until I actually get it. And sometimes the message gets stuck on 97% when I'm sending for like 30s, too. It's really stupid if this is how it normally because the PS3 messaging system was a lot faster.
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The PS4 message system worked fine until around Destiny's launch or Destiny's Beta (I can't remember which). Undoubtedly they were unable to keep up with the Fall demand. I had no issues prior though so hopefully they get it back on track soon.
 
SoraanTribal said:
So this is as good of place as any to ask this question. New PS4 owner here. I know PSN has been having issues, so I don't know if it's more to do with that or whatever, but... are the messages always so fucking slow at sending and receiving? I'll get a notification that I have a message, but it just sits there refreshing for what feels like 1-2 minutes until I actually get it. And sometimes the message gets stuck on 97% when I'm sending for like 30s, too. It's really stupid if this is how it normally because the PS3 messaging system was a lot faster.

Also, is there no way to have notifications when you get messages in a chat party? It did this on the PS3, but nope, not here. To be honest, I'm not really all that impressed with the PS4 as far as options and features goes. My brother and his wife had a baby over the holidays, and I took some video of it. I tried to play it on the PS4 but nope, it wouldn't play a MP4 file. I had to use the PS3 to do that. Like wtf?
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I see a lot of people complain about the messages. It never happens to me ,my friends and have seen people post they haven't either so it doesn't happen everyone though.
 
Lord of Castamere said:
The PS4 message system worked fine until around Destiny's launch or Destiny's Beta (I can't remember which). Undoubtedly they were unable to keep up with the Fall demand. I had no issues prior though so hopefully they get it back on track soon.
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Hmm, hopefully it'll get back to how it was then.. preferably soon. :(

otakukidd said:
I see a lot of people complain about the messages. It never happens to me ,my friends and have seen people post they haven't either so it doesn't happen everyone though.
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Weird. I made sure I wasn't downloading anything, but it's still very very slow at updating for me.
 
Vita is up, and all suggestions for changes haven't worked for PS4. My pals were online and playing intermittently, but I haven't been able to connect since 12/24.

This kind of shit on my vacation.
 
Chabbles said:
I haven't being able to log into psn since noon christmas day. Still getting the "terminated" NW-31194-8. message. Guess ill try the MTU thing in awhile. This is ridiculous though, like unexceptionable(edit Unacceptable!) levels of ridiculousness, specially if the attack has long stopped.
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Exactly the same here, haven't been able to long into PSN on PS4 whatsoever since noon Christmas Day. I've even tried the MTU thing with no luck. UK here.

I hope Sony don't think they can just sweep this under the carpet, thinking we will all just forgive and forget. The customer deserves compensation for this.
 
Wasp said:
Exactly the same here, haven't been able to long into PSN on PS4 whatsoever since noon Christmas Day. I've even tried the MTU thing with no luck. UK here.

I hope Sony don't think they can just sweep this under the carpet, thinking we will all just forgive and forget. The customer deserves compensation for this.
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Not sure if that would be a good idea. It would encourage "hackers" to do more of this if they can get rewards for it.
 
SoraanTribal said:
So this is as good of place as any to ask this question. New PS4 owner here. I know PSN has been having issues, so I don't know if it's more to do with that or whatever, but... are the messages always so fucking slow at sending and receiving? I'll get a notification that I have a message, but it just sits there refreshing for what feels like 1-2 minutes until I actually get it. And sometimes the message gets stuck on 97% when I'm sending for like 30s, too. It's really stupid if this is how it normally because the PS3 messaging system was a lot faster.

Also, is there no way to have notifications when you get messages in a chat party? It did this on the PS3, but nope, not here. To be honest, I'm not really all that impressed with the PS4 as far as options and features goes. My brother and his wife had a baby over the holidays, and I took some video of it. I tried to play it on the PS4 but nope, it wouldn't play a MP4 file. I had to use the PS3 to do that. Like wtf?
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Not sure about the second question, but I've had problems with messages on my ps4 for the majority of the time I've had the system. Sometimes I get a msg from playstation that takes what feels like five minutes to load up. Hopefully the next system patch addresses this.
 
I've been up & running with no issues since yesterday evening. The MTU fix might take a few tries, but it should work eventually. For shits & giggles I just disconnected and setup a new connection changing the MTU setting back to the default 1500 and got the dreaded server error message from the past several days. Changed the MTU setting back to 1473 and I was on again immediately.
 
I played yesterday GTAOnline for the first time in like 3 days. Missed the snow :(
Can access Webstore too right now!

Region: EST - NY
Platform: PS4
No MTU fix needed.
 
US East - using MTU change I can get online, but party/voice times out or stops working randomly, or people can't connect/see each other, etc. So stuff is still quite FUBAR.
 
Pezus said:
Not sure if that would be a good idea. It would encourage "hackers" to do more of this if they can get rewards for it.
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But your assuming these "hackers" are even console gamers to begin with. How do you know their not PC elitists who hate console gaming ?. What real gamer would fuck shit up like this for millions of their fellow gamers in the hope of some free indie game, of knack, or some shit ??

I know as a paying customer i'd like, at the very least be comped the days the service has been down. on principle alone.

I think these guy do it for the attention, maybe their just sadistic in nature and like to watch the world burn, or maybe they expect to get job from this... but to do something like this in the hope of free stuff off sony/ms is silly, and no excuse for paying customers not to be reimbursed... this is some bs man, 4 days and counting.
 
Okay... Yesterday i bought the Driveclub Elements pack. The Driveclub servers were offline, but i could buy the pack.
Bought it, got an email that it was bought and payed for. But it's still locked... If i try to buy it again then it says i allready bought it.

Anyone knows how to fix this?

Edit: fixed thanx to Rushy!
 
MTU 1473 worked for me in San Francisco,but my FIFA 15 game is still fucked up...I had 169 players and it's now down to 59 and I don't have any rare gold players or any over a 81 rating. Wasted money,smh
 
dvdjamm said:
MTU 1473 worked for me in San Francisco,but my FIFA 15 game is still fucked up...I had 169 players and it's now down to 59 and I don't have any rare gold players or any over a 81 rating. Wasted money,smh
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Trying Madden 15 now (US) and it forced me re-agree to the licence agreement, and redo the opening scenario. All my skills trainer progress is gone.. MTU looks to be intact however.
 
Can't seem to login to PSN at all

It was working last night but just came back from work today and it won't let me log on to PSN. It seems its like a on and off thing.

When you look at Friends it says "cannot load" and when you go the PSN store the blue screen comes up like it want to load but eventually nothing happens.

Im in AUS btw
 
Just going to repost what I posted in the lizard squad thread here as it might be more appropriate (and may help others after I was locked out of psn since Christmas)...

Ok can finally login on ps4 and see the store, trophies, everything after changing my router settings mtu to 1454 (read that figure is best for pppoe connections somewhere although my default setting was previously 1492). Have left ps4 on auto.

I do wonder whether Sony will fix their system so people don't have to mess with their mtu settings (as it was before Christmas) or is this the way things are now. If it is the way things are they're going to have to start sending documentation and notices out everywhere including outlets that sell the ps4. That or release a firmware update that changes the way systems connect to psn, but for people to get that they'll have to allow people to get on the network again first.
 
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