Network is Offline?

[fireb0lt]

Everytime I go to "Open Lounge" a message says "Network is Offline" and kicks me back to GT Life menu. Anyone else get this? I haven't been able to try online since release.

 

[las_cons]

same

 

[LJ]

you might have been signed out of PSN without notiving

 

[fireb0lt]

If anyone else is having this problem I fixed it by port forwarding on my router (even though everything else PS3 related works fine online). You will find details in the main menu manual online section.

 

[Vince_Fiero]

Over the week-end I kept getting: "Could not connect to server"

All the time I was on the internet and was accepting friends requests and seeing the online status of friends in XMB, but I was unable to get GT5 online.

Yesterday evening there was no issue anymore to connect.
However, in the same session I had to connect again, so I suspect that upgrade 1.02 also kicks you out when you are not on community for a while.