Good day. So what usually happens is that on my ps3. I would be able to browse the internet but not sign in. On the computer store.playstation.com would say site not available and if i try to sign in to community.us.playstation.com it would say access denied.
Firstly I am connecting from a university internet. It is also important to note that this doesn't always happen. A few days I will be able to connect, another few days the error start. So today I was able to connect, so I decided to write this from now because I know it will stop working again in the near future and when it does, i wont be able to sign in to make this post.
So i have talked to two agents before about this:
So they ask me, am I able to sign in on a next network? The answer is yes, I tried using my phones internet as a hotspot and it actually work.
So now everyone believes the problem must be with the university network.
I have check with the network admins and they said they haven't changed any settings that would be causing that.
So I did a little research and have met up on persons with similar problems, and their reason was that "some how sony is blocking the ip address for the network maybe because they feel you are using a ip hider or a proxy and things aren't matching up, or maybe you are being hack, or even may something suspicious as been done on the network." I wasn't sure about the reason itself, but their solution was that I had to change the main mac address of my network that would force a public IP address change. Everyone who was able to do that fixed their problem. I am not able to do that because as I am on a university network, and network admins wouldn't allow that as it would affect the thousands of student that uses the network. I highlighted the thousands because my next question is: if anyone else was to be using a proxy or such and exposing it to playstation network, every one who uses a ps3 or ps4 on the network would be affected?
So before my network goes back down, what could be blocking my ip temporarily allowing me to not be able to:
1)sign into psn on ps3
2) sign into playstation.com on computer