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RDM

RDM

RDM

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Took the plunge finally and got a PS3 to add to my collection of hardware. Mainly for Wipeout HD and Little Big Planet when they come out and to use as a BD player.

However, did I choose the wrong day to buy one or is the PSN always this poor? Upgrade to the new firmware took 3 hours on an 8Mbs line to download, I have barely been able to stay connected, dowloading demos, the Guitar Hero 3 update or pretty much anything else has been extremely slow.

Is it always this bad or is PSN just having an off day?
 
I updated FW from 2.17 to 2.20 earlier yesterday afternoon and noticed no problems. Took about 5mins to download.

Is the PS3 connected via wifi or ethernet as the latter is preferable.
 
WiFi unfortunately, no cables down to the living room. 360 and Wii connections are fine but the PS3 connection is incredibly poor even though the signal strength is near on 100%. This is not a good start to my PS3 experience...
 
I would say it's more of an issue with your wifi/router setup as I have heard of this problem before. I think that maybe rp2000 or someone else will be able to give you advice on how to sort it ;)
 
Did you put the PS3 in the Demilitarized Zone on the router, in other words, does it bypass the firewall?

Lately the PSN has been great, I have a 12mbit line and last thursday I downloaded 1GB of demo's in 15 minutes from the US PSN
 
Aye, probably need to do some faffing with router settings etc. It connects, it just doesn't have any speed at all. Web browsing is slow and I get dropped from the PSN on a regular basis.
 
RDM said:
Aye, probably need to do some faffing with router settings etc. It connects, it just doesn't have any speed at all. Web browsing is slow and I get dropped from the PSN on a regular basis.
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Dude your probably running at nat type 3 atm, usually this is because UPnP isn't being picked up properly, you'll need to assign a static IP to your PS3 and open the following ports on your router for that IP address,

TCP Ports 80, 443, 5223.

UDP Ports 3478, 3479, 3658.

Worked for me a treat, I'm now running at nat type 2 and no drop-outs over wireless.
 
Unfortunately I am running at Nat type 2 according to the status. I'll assign a reserved IP address and open those ports anyway and see if that helps.

So far PSN is not as user friendly as Live though.
 
Ive never had any network probelms with my PS3 connected via wireless .....it just worked and never had to mess around with it and it took me about 5 mins to dl the latest update.
 
I doubt the NAT type would have any real effect on the actual speed your getting from PSN - its only really going to affect you ability to host online games.

If your having trouble staying connected it sounds like something between the PS3 and your wireless setup isn't happy - I'd try connecting by cable as you'll then be able to confirm if its your wireless or something else.

PSN is 'slow' for me on my VM 20mbit broadband, but not 3 hours to download firmware slow :p I probably get about 200-400kb/s download speed off the PS Store.
 
andshrew said:
PSN is 'slow' for me on my VM 20mbit broadband, but not 3 hours to download firmware slow :p I probably get about 200-400kb/s download speed off the PS Store.
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That is indeed slow, most of the time the PSN is nearly maxing out my 12mbit connection (1.5MB/sec)

A few months ago I did get slow connection speeds on update days and stopping downloads but lately it is just as fast on update days.
 
im on 8meg vm cable and use homeplugs to get it to my ps3 as wi-fi was not cutting it for me ,it now seems very stable and takes about 4-5mins to download firmware and movie trailers about 5-10mins
 
andshrew said:
If your having trouble staying connected it sounds like something between the PS3 and your wireless setup isn't happy - I'd try connecting by cable as you'll then be able to confirm if its your wireless or something else.
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Was hoping to avoid that, but it looks like I may need to try it. Looks like I need 10m of CAT5e and power drill this evening. I know it shouldn't, but I suppose it is possible that either the Wii or 360 are interferring in some way? Though I am normally getting between 90 and 100% signal strength on the PS3 status page, it just wont stay connected and takes ages to download anything (Update, Guitar Hero 3 update, Lemmings). Also having issues using it to add to the wallet, but that could be an incorrectly input CC.

All in all, having a bit of a mare of a time.
 
RDM said:
Was hoping to avoid that, but it looks like I may need to try it. Looks like I need 10m of CAT5e and power drill this evening. I know it shouldn't, but I suppose it is possible that either the Wii or 360 are interferring in some way? Though I am normally getting between 90 and 100% signal strength on the PS3 status page, it just wont stay connected and takes ages to download anything (Update, Guitar Hero 3 update, Lemmings). Also having issues using it to add to the wallet, but that could be an incorrectly input CC.

All in all, having a bit of a mare of a time.
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what about trying homeplugs ?
 
lowrider007 said:
Dude your probably running at nat type 3 atm, usually this is because UPnP isn't being picked up properly, you'll need to assign a static IP to your PS3 and open the following ports on your router for that IP address,

TCP Ports 80, 443, 5223.

UDP Ports 3478, 3479, 3658.

Worked for me a treat, I'm now running at nat type 2 and no drop-outs over wireless.
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NEVER EVER FORWARD PORT 80, 443 to any machine on your network unless you are running a HTTP or and SSL server (neither of which the PS3 is running).

You only need the UDP ports on that list forwarding (trust me, I have them forwarded). I need to check that list as it should only be port 3658 (I think).

Either way it won't affect your download speed, just didn't want to see people forwarding the wrong ports and leaving their machine(s) open to hacks/vulnerabilities.

I believe the last user who had this problem had VM investigate and it turned out to be an incompatibility with one of the modems they supply (He got them to provide their other brand modem and his problems disappeared).


rp2000
 
beachBOYken said:
yep agree there i only foward the following :

UDP Ports 3478, 3479, 3658 and 3660
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I think the confusion/misinformation comes from this page:

http://www.orpheusinternet.co.uk/support/ps3/index.html

people are forwarding the OUTGOING ports, which on most peoples routers are already allowed else they would not be able to browse the web!!).

In actual fact you only need 3658 (I only ever see hits for that port on my router). I know 3659&3660 improves connectivity for Motorstorm specifically (I tested this at launch). I have 3478-3479 as well, which should be needed, but I never see any hits for.


rp2000
 
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