Opeth
They are the only two platforms that I can't connect to for some strange Lebanon ISP related reason, I have tried on multiple OSes and multiple places and I'm 100% sure it's an ISP issue. I've contacted them but that obviously yielded no results, does anyone have experience with this?
nuclearcat
PSN and sony are insane. Lately they detect "hacking" attempts and at same time doesn't collaborate about this issues with ISPs, effectively banning their own users.
Their "detection" is proven to be wrong, because once we put their smart tv only on account with dedicated ip and after while they banned this ip and detected "hacking" attempts.
About steam - as isp consultant i never had issues or complaints from any of my clients. Probably it might be issue with some ISPs who doesnt care at all about spamming and security of their network.
anayman_k7
A funny incident related to PSN happened with me 3 months ago in Germany, I was staying at my wife student dorm, she got an Internet ban from the university because of PSN reported that our IP address did some illegitimate access to their network, the funny thing that we only have our phones and a windows notebook! No playstation! A weird incident that wasn't clear till today. I suspected that some attackers with spoofed IPs maybe did that attack, and because Lebanese internet companies place a lot of users under few IPs, any infected PC that has an agent can be used to DDOS attack PSN will result in a ban for the whole IP address, and if your IP was blacklisted it will be blacklisted on other services also.
elchebib
I guess its an issue mainly with IPs. Putting a lot of users under a single IP risks these users of being banned for security reasons. Lebanese ISPs distribute IP addresses this way unfortunately and its something that not only may affect your access to the network but it can also affect the quality of the connection.
I used to have so many problems with opening up NAT and the problem boiled down to the private/public IP address that lebanese ISP use to distribute these addresses.
Years ago, I spent an hour on the phone with an IDM support guy who seems to know what he was doing. And after giving me a public IP address, my NAT was open and online gaming was much smoother (faster at finding lobbies and connecting). Unfortunately, this requires a so-called SOHO connection which is expensive.