connection woes on PS3

jas72

jas72

jas72

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Ok I had it hardwired to my router.

Decided to move the kids room and so far don't have the time/energy to run the cable to the new router location so I'm wireless for the moment.

I had the PS3 running wireless for months beforehand.

Now I'm getting really strange effects.

Last week when I went to network connections and test settings it can find the router but cannot give me an IP address (WEP key is correct and everthing is setup like before) no matter what I do I don't get an IP address.

So I give up yesterday I switched it on to watch a dvd i found it had auto signed in to PSN (GREAT!) however, I could not get any webpages to display and the PSstore was very slow. Whilst watching DVD I got a message that media server was now discoed then that I'd lost a network connection. The rest of the night nothing :(

Now I suppose you are shouting router problem but no. I can access the net easily from my PSP whilst sitting on my Sofa which is further away from the router than the PS3 by a good 4 meters I also have a laptop in the room which connects perfectly using wireless G to the router the problem seems to be my PS3 but it's only started since I moved from wired to wireless. It worked great beforehand.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (of course the most obvious would be to rewire it :p ) but perhaps someone has read of this prob elsewhere and can give some tips?
 
Sounds like bog standard wireless interference to me. Want to try broadcasting on a different channel.
 
still the same error? ie cant find ip address?

reset router?
move router/ps3 to very close to each other (to narrow down possible causes)
change broadcast channel of router?
make sure there is NOTHING which could cause interference in signal nearby

mine would occasionally not sign in with same error as well

i went into admin controls on router, faffed about with it and its sorted :D
 
thanks for replies.

It was working again last night could login to psstore but not buy anything protocol error.

Strange thing is that it used to work great on my router before I went wired. Seems like one of the patches has created bugs or something.

I think I'll just get myself a bit dirty and hard wire it again.

If it were all the time it's easy to fix but it's intermittent and sometimes it finds media server sometimes it doesn't I think most likely is that the wifi connection on the PS3 isn't strong enough (yet my PSP works perfect) :S
 
I get the idea that the Wifi connection/card in the PS3 isn't a good with reception as other cards, I think I looked at the connection when I first connected my PS3 wireless and it was/is also worse than a laptop with a wireless card at the same distance.

Last week I copied a 8475GB file from my PC to the PS3 wireless and it took 90 minutes which is only ~12.5mbps which is poor if the maximum is 54mbps and the PS3 is within 4 metres of the router without a wall inbetween them.

Have you tried to put the PS3 in the DMZ of the router?
 
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