PS3 (Overweight version) and wireless connection

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Evenin' all,

My step-son is going wappy as there are persistent problems maintaining a wireless connection on his PS3 for any length of time. Same not an issue for the family laptops. Has anyone else experienced this and/or any suggestions/remedies, other than going down what will be an insanely long ethernet connection??!!

Any info gratefully received.

Cheers,

Dudders

 

[matengawhat]

whats he doing when the connections lost - is he playing games online with age restrictions and he has put his dob in and its automatically kicking him out?

 

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

Doesn't appear to be an issue re dob etc. Connection sometimes goes in middle of a game, but more common problem is having a w/less connection one day and not being able to achieve that the next.

We did a Google last night and it seems that this is quite a common problem, with, as I had suspected, fingers being pointed as to the quality (or otherwise) of the wireless components in the PS3.

Cheers

Dudders

 

[Ravey Gravey Davy]

Dudders:

Evenin' all,

My step-son is going wappy as there are persistent problems maintaining a wireless connection on his PS3 for any length of time. Same not an issue for the family laptops. Has anyone else experienced this and/or any suggestions/remedies, other than going down what will be an insanely long ethernet connection??!!

Any info gratefully received.

Cheers,

Dudders

Try these or similar-saves on ripping the place apart to put cable in.

 

[fido87456]

The wireless in the PS3 does seem to be quite pants, only since a certain firmware release though according to some forums. Anyway, I solved the problems I had streaming video to my PS3 by using my squeezebox (classic) as a wireless bridge. So my squeezebox picks up the wireless signal, and a short ethernet cable (1m) runs from the squeezebox to the PS3. This solved the problems I was having with streaming video also proved to me that it was the PS3 that is the problem and not my wireless signal!

Obviously if you don't have a squeezebox that isn't going to work for you though. so I'd recommend a couple of homeplugs, I've got 2 of the 85Meg ones from solwise and they work very well. Much easier than installing huge lengths of ethernet.