PS3 Online help

[khevolution]

hi after recently getting a PS3 250gb, I've been enjoying many hours gaming offline, but now I wanted to take the experience online. now before I get any further I must say I do have an 360 and I am connected to Xbox live (khevolution if anybody wants to add me)

now onto the problem where my PS3 is situated, is in my living room, so this means I cannot use a ethernet cable to connect it up unlike my xbox which is in the same room as my router

now last night I tried hooking it all up and I thought I cracked it as I was able to surf the web on it (albeit very slowly), but when trying to play a game I was asked if I wanted to download an available update. so I clicked yes and waited for it to download and then about 5 mins later it disconnected

this happened to me a few times now on pretty much every game I got, and I never had this problem with the wireless connection on my Xbox, so i'm guessing i'm missing something set wise

Can anybody give me any helpful hints on how to hook my PS3 up to my router, and make it a bit more stable?



PS this thread wasn't intended to start a flame war on how one console is better then the other, as i see most of the threads heading these days

[Dare2Fail]

It sounds like a really odd problem you are having as I would have expected it to either work or not work, rather than working but with a really slow download speed.

Is the PS3 located in the same location as the XBox? Maybe the location is in a signal blank spot and as a result it isn't making a strong connection to the router.

I know this will sound like a daft question, but it couldn't have been that someone else in the house was online last night and downloading a lot of data, could it? This could have eaten up your bandwidth and as a result there wouldn't have been much left for the PS3 to use.

The only problems I've had with the PS3 online was a few months back when an update reset the connection details, but that resulted in me getting no connection online at all.

[Dave^]

When I first got my PS3 I had it wireless...

And like you, every time I tried to update the games (GT5P & Everybody's Golf) it would go so far, then disconnect...

Keep at it... although the progress bar doesn't show this, but it is picking up from where it left off... It took bleeding ages and a dozen attempts to do the updates of those two games... but eventually it worked...

The following week I put my Modem and Router behind the TV and used wireless for the PC instead...

The wireless for the PS3 is one of the early/crap/slow versions... if you want to play online at a reasonable rate, get it wired up (even if it's only a temporary cable running round the entire house, it's much better then wireless).

HTH

[khevolution]

yeah i have heard that it does work a lot better wired, but at the moment this is not possible

i don't think its a router blank spot as when I can get online and view the signal strength its usually hanging around the 65% mark


Im thinking it could have something to do with router settings? but this is where I come to a dead end as im not really sure what im doing

[Bullett]

I can stream video and audio to my PS3 over wireless (and it's release 60gb version too).
I did have a few problems initially, what I did find improved the connectivity reliability for the DLNA/server connection was to set the PS3 to a fixed IP address and set the router to issue the same IP to the PS3 via MAC filtering.

You might also want to consider you security levels on wireless. I don't run any encryption (I do MAC filter and hide the SSID though).

[khevolution]

how do I go about setting a static IP for both my PS3 and through my router

[FellowPazzini]

Not really looked at this link but it should give you an idea. I have the PC, Laptop, PSP & PS3 all setas static IP's. If you are going to do it that way your best setting it up for all devices running through the router so you have no conficts.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6900374...

You'll have to find out the Mac address so if your unsure how to do that then google is god. At the LAN Setup within the router settings this is where you allocate your IP's. It should look something like this...

Your router IP will probably be 192.168.1.1

Address Res # / IP Address / Device Name / MAC Address
1 / 192.168.1.2 / KITCHEN-PC / 00:1C:C0:16:08:74
2 / 192.168.1.3 / PS3 / 00:1F:H7:38:BB:74

For me I use the PS3 set as the DMZ Server in WAN Setup page, this should allow all traffic from your PS to & from with no problems so you shouldn't have to find out what ports to forward for the playstation. Not the easiest way to go about thinigs if your not too familiar with it or haven't got a nerdy friend to help out.

The above person is right though, there's seems to be something else wrong if it's disconnecting on you. I'm no expert so sorry if I've got somethings wrong there.

Oh & PS3 is for winners only as it's usually the kids that like the Xbox

EDIT: Sorry about the table, I can't get to show properly so I hope you can understand it.

Edited by FellowPazzini on Wednesday 10th February 17:31

Edited by FellowPazzini on Wednesday 10th February 17:32

Edited by FellowPazzini on Wednesday 10th February 17:33

[voyds9]

Move your mobile phone away from the router.

[khevolution]

FellowPazzini said:

Not really looked at this link but it should give you an idea. I have the PC, Laptop, PSP & PS3 all setas static IP's. If you are going to do it that way your best setting it up for all devices running through the router so you have no conficts.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6900374...

You'll have to find out the Mac address so if your unsure how to do that then google is god. At the LAN Setup within the router settings this is where you allocate your IP's. It should look something like this...

Your router IP will probably be 192.168.1.1

Address Res # / IP Address / Device Name / MAC Address
1 / 192.168.1.2 / KITCHEN-PC / 00:1C:C0:16:08:74
2 / 192.168.1.3 / PS3 / 00:1F:H7:38:BB:74

For me I use the PS3 set as the DMZ Server in WAN Setup page, this should allow all traffic from your PS to & from with no problems so you shouldn't have to find out what ports to forward for the playstation. Not the easiest way to go about thinigs if your not too familiar with it or haven't got a nerdy friend to help out.

The above person is right though, there's seems to be something else wrong if it's disconnecting on you. I'm no expert so sorry if I've got somethings wrong there.

Oh & PS3 is for winners only as it's usually the kids that like the Xbox

EDIT: Sorry about the table, I can't get to show properly so I hope you can understand it.

Cheers for the help I think I understand that, but unfortunately can't really get at the PS3 to test it out

just a quick question to make sure i do actually understand, does every device need a different Static IP number IE

PC : 198.162.2.1
Laptop: 198.162.2.2
Xbox: 198.162.2.3

ETC ETC

voyds9 said:

Move your mobile phone away from the router.

my phone is nowhere near my router. but what difference does that make?

[FellowPazzini]

Not too sure. I don't think you do but like I said it could save any confusion for the router & is probably just good practice. It's something you'll have to look into a bit more indepth unless someone here can answer that but your on the right track.

Errm Phone? not heard of that one either, the google god should be able to answer that.

[khevolution]

OT slighly, but its my own thread so im allowed

but everytime you mention Google God, i think of this http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/Scripture/Proof_G...

[Frederick]

When I had my PS3 running wireless, despite the fact it is no more than 2m away from the router, it also used to disconnect occasionally and take utterly forever to download updates. I bought it bundled with GT5:P and the initial firmware update, then GT5:P update to 1.01 (iirc) and a couple of other bits and bobs meant that from plugging it all together at about 6pm, I eventually got a race at about 9pm.

I've now got it wired and it seems to be a lot better. Maybe a solution (albeit a pretty extreme one) would be to get a cheap router to plug the PS3 into, locally - and use it as a wireless bridge to the other router. Either that or buy one of those Homeplug AC cable LAN thingies and hook it into the router that way.

[MondeoMan1981]

PS3 is sensitive to the kind of security settings on your wireless network.

I had WPA (is that right?) on my router when I first got my PS3, would never connect, couldnt get it set up.

After some googling, I changed with security to WEP and its been fine since.

[FellowPazzini]

khevolution said:

OT slighly, but its my own thread so im allowed

but everytime you mention Google God, i think of this http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/Scripture/Proof_G...

Iiiiii knew it!

WEP is apparantly the weakest security to be hacked of the bunch but I'm sure that'll be worth a try. Also if your still having problems then disabling the "Disable SPI Firewall" option is also an errrrrm option.

[khevolution]

cheers, well finally got round to having a look and I'll admit I fked it all up and couldn't even get online on my PC, and had no idea what I did, so took a deep breath and restored the router back to factory setting and, went through the whole process of setting everything up again (PS3 first of course) and now touch wood everything seems good, even got better signal strength (70%) still not sure what i've done, but it seems to work

[voyds9]

khevolution said:

voyds9 said:

Move your mobile phone away from the router.

my phone is nowhere near my router. but what difference does that make?

Causes intermittent loss of connection between router and PS3.

Not lost connection between the two since I've moved my mobile to other side of living room.

[khevolution]

i don't get how this would make any difference as I was lead to believe that routers signal was 2.4ghz, which is nothing like the signal given off from a mobile phone.


but its something to bear in mind if I encounter the problem again