Ps3 Wireless woes

Ewaf · 13 Jul 2011 at 23:39

Ok, I have recently moved to a new student house and I am having horrible problems with my PS3 wireless.

I can connect to the wireless fine, does the test, all fine 7mb down etc. But then I constantly get signed out with various error messages spewed at me, which I have googled to not much success. The wireless signal strength is 100% and the internet is virgin media.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Doing my nut.

EDIT: Error code seems to be 8002ad23.

Google returns nothing useful. Halp

will13 · 14 Jul 2011 at 00:16

I think your problem might be your ISP, my mate is with Virgin and as nothing but problems

Ewaf · 14 Jul 2011 at 00:29

But in my old house I had virgin. Granted it was 50mb optical fibre but, it was still virgin

will13 · 14 Jul 2011 at 02:04

Ewaf said:
But in my old house I had virgin. Granted it was 50mb optical fibre but, it was still virgin

Dunno then, have you tried a wired connection?

Ewaf · 14 Jul 2011 at 09:57

No not yet, don't have an ethernet cable long enough ;(

meths · 14 Jul 2011 at 10:16

I'm with Virgin and mine works fine.

Have you opened the relevant ports on your router?

Ewaf · 14 Jul 2011 at 11:42

Meths said:
I'm with Virgin and mine works fine.

Have you opened the relevant ports on your router?

Umm I haven't yet actually, I was going to try and put my PS3 in the DMZ. Would that be better?

UKDTweak · 14 Jul 2011 at 11:46

Have you tried using a different Wifi channel on your router, had similar issue with my PS3 and Wii, a different channel sorted them both out.

K1LLSW1TCH · 14 Jul 2011 at 11:56

Ewaf said:
But in my old house I had virgin. Granted it was 50mb optical fibre but, it was still virgin

Cable in the new house? Or ADSL?

Ewaf · 14 Jul 2011 at 12:07

Cable. And what do you mean Tweak? I don't want to switch channels really as I live with 5 others and dont wanna mess up all their devices.

K1LLSW1TCH · 14 Jul 2011 at 12:12

Ewaf said:
Cable. And what do you mean Tweak? I don't want to switch channels really as I live with 5 others and dont wanna mess up all their devices.

It's worth trying it just to see if it maintains a connection. If it does then you know what the problem is. When I worked for Virgin I hated it if I'd suggest something and I'd get someone on the other end saying they wouldn't do what I suggested because of X, Y and Z. It's like, why ask for help if you are unwilling to follow the suggestions.

Ewaf · 14 Jul 2011 at 12:31

K1LLSW1TCH said:
It's worth trying it just to see if it maintains a connection. If it does then you know what the problem is. When I worked for Virgin I hated it if I'd suggest something and I'd get someone on the other end saying they wouldn't do what I suggested because of X, Y and Z. It's like, why ask for help if you are unwilling to follow the suggestions.

But surely if I change channels it will mess up my 5 housemates laptops, ipads, PCs, phones, everything?

UKDTweak · 14 Jul 2011 at 12:42

The other devices should not be affected, unless any of them don't like the new channel you pick, it's trial and error I'm afraid.

If you have the means, laptop with wifi, iphone or android phone, you can get apps to scan for other signals near by and see if any of them conflict with your current setup channel, then simply try a channel further away from the ones you see in use...

K1LLSW1TCH · 14 Jul 2011 at 17:15

Ewaf said:
But surely if I change channels it will mess up my 5 housemates laptops, ipads, PCs, phones, everything?

Not necessarily. I changed the channel of my router previously and my phone still picks up the wireless network just fine. Like I said you're better off just trying these things and if they work you can go from there, if not there are other things to try but if you don't try you won't know...

Typing your error code into Google brings up all sorts of things by the way, so there's probably no definitive fix but people have had success with switching off the media sharing on the PS3 and also disabling uPNP if you want to try those things.

I just think you could be a little more grateful that someone had bothered to help. Instead of thanking them and just saying you'll try it (even if you won't) you took a different tone which seemed a little ungrateful.