Doug Jacobs

Is it really that difficult to run a reliable, enterprise level network?

Apparently for Sony it is...

Perhaps the should change what PSN stands for from 'Play Station Network'
to 'Plays Sometime Network.'

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It's not broken. It's...advanced.

GMAN

In article <TIadnS-9mKXuQSzQnZ2dnUVZ_s8AAAAA@posted.rawbandwidth>, Doug Jacobs <djacobs@rawbw.com> wrote:
>Is it really that difficult to run a reliable, enterprise level network?
>
>Apparently for Sony it is...
>
>Perhaps the should change what PSN stands for from 'Play Station Network'
>to 'Plays Sometime Network.'
>
Yest you never once badmnouthed the pay for use LIVE network that crashed
years ago.

TommoCubed

On 24/04/2011 21:35, GMAN wrote:
> In article<TIadnS-9mKXuQSzQnZ2dnUVZ_s8AAAAA@posted.rawbandwidth>, Doug Jacobs<djacobs@rawbw.com> wrote:
>> Is it really that difficult to run a reliable, enterprise level network?
>>
>> Apparently for Sony it is...
>>
>> Perhaps the should change what PSN stands for from 'Play Station Network'
>> to 'Plays Sometime Network.'
>>
> Yest you never once badmnouthed the pay for use LIVE network that crashed
> years ago.

You must admit the comms have been a shambles with this incident. Even
some corporate BS would have been more welcome than the spurious error
message I get when forced to try and log in on the games I'm playing at
the moment.

It's a free network so they've hardly let anyone down if they'd only be
a little more open about what is going on. Also, Sony don't block people
as homophobes for saying they come from Fort Gay )

http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2010/09...box-lives-fort

devilthorn

"TommoCubed" wrote in message news:ip2alj$ohc$1@news.albasani.net...

On 24/04/2011 21:35, GMAN wrote:
> In article<TIadnS-9mKXuQSzQnZ2dnUVZ_s8AAAAA@posted.rawbandwidth>, Doug
> Jacobs<djacobs@rawbw.com> wrote:
>>> Is it really that difficult to run a reliable, enterprise level network?
>>
>>> Apparently for Sony it is...
>>
>>> Perhaps the should change what PSN stands for from 'Play Station
>>> Network'
>> to 'Plays Sometime Network.'
>>
>> Yest you never once badmnouthed the pay for use LIVE network that crashed
>> years ago.

>You must admit the comms have been a shambles with this incident. Even some
>corporate BS would have been more welcome than the spurious error message I
>get when forced to try and log in on the games I'm playing at the moment.

>It's a free network so they've hardly let anyone down if they'd only be a
>little more open about what is going on.

Sony's corporate media director has been posting almost daily updates at
www.us.playstation.com on the blog there. it's already been indicated that
it was an "intrusion attack" of some sort that caused this issue, and they
are currently rebuilding the servers.

as for the original poster, he constantly complains about connection issues,
and yet pretty much every time he says his is down, my PS3 (and all of my
friends PS3's) are working just fine. I use my PS3 every single day since I
bought it over 4 years ago, and I can count on 3 fingers the number of times
I have not been able to connect to PSN (this includes this current
downtime.) the original poster just complains and usually has no clue what
he is talking about.

TommoCubed

On 25/04/2011 14:17, devilthorn wrote:
> on the blog there

What? on the blog there?

I tend to read blogs for chitter chatter, not daily contradictory
musings about where my credit card, email, challenge questions, and info
that would get a front door into identify theft may or may not be.

They have been an absolute disgrace over this. Not for being breached,
because gamers are savvy enough to know this is a daily cat and mouse
between players on both sides, but for being so defensive about
everything other than informing me there is some action that needs taking.

Not a troll, not anti Sony, just a very interested party to all this,
and extremely disappointed in the response and communications.