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12/27/2014 4:42:58 PM
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Setting your MTU lower means your console sends out smaller pieces of data more frequently. By everyone doing this you are flooding PSN with traffic and contributing to a DDoS without even realizing it.
[b]PSN Status is, as of 11:41 AM EST, now offline yet again and probably because of this MTU nonsense.[/b]
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[quote]Setting your MTU lower means your console sends out smaller pieces of data more frequently. By everyone doing this you are flooding PSN with traffic and contributing to a DDoS without even realizing it. [b]PSN Status is, as of 11:41 AM EST, now offline yet again and probably because of this MTU nonsense.[/b][/quote]
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Not true, smaller packets are better than larger packets. That's why when DOS'ing first began from command line you would increase the packet sizes.. Its easier for a server to work through small amounts of data than vast amounts of data.
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But you're sending smaller amounts of data faster. And if everyone is doing this it works similar to a ddos because the server is getting overloaded with information. Still, I doubt this will have that much of an impact. It's not a huge difference and I don't think many will be doing it.
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Not better if smaller packets are being sent by up to over 1 million hosts and last I checked Sony has sold an estimated 110 Million consoles since launch. Granted not all would connect at the same time but a very sizable percentage of that 110 million will. Its not just that they are smaller, they also transmit more frequently because the smaller PDU has less data. You gain improved connectivity at the cost of more traffic.
