PS3 wireless settings

maxtweenie

I'm trying to connect a PS3 to a Netgear router on AOL. It's found and connected to the network but can't connect to the internet. Does anyone know which settings (DHCP, proxy etc) I need to use to connect? Thanks in advance.

GeoffX

I hope this helps:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/6369073-post12.html

maxtweenie

Thanks for trying GeoffX. I work with computers all day, and I'm no dumbo but I can't understand a word of that post lol. I've found a couple of other forums where people are having the same problem and there seem to be several scenarios that supposedly work but I've yet to find the right one. I've got a work laptop, a Wii, and an Archos that all connected to the net automatically. Why do Sony have to be so bloody difficult?

devon977

Did you try by selecting auto in the wireless setting?

GeoffX

Ah, I linked to a post rather than the whole thread:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/ps3/702463-ps3-aol-problems.html#post6369073

Some of the later posts expand on this topic.

aliEnRIK

Id guess you probably need to open some ports to allow it (Or put the PS3 on the 'default DMZ server)
To do any of this you need to log into the router which is probably with the following address ~
http://192.168.1.1

maxtweenie

Thanks for the comments and links so far. At the moment I have hard wired it to the router via the ethernet cable which works fine. No matter what settings I change on the router, or whatever set up I use on the PS3, I cannot get it to connect to the Network wirelessly. The problem is to do with the WEP / WPA security keys I think. When I look at the router config, it says I have WPA set, but shows my 13 digit WEP password? If I set the security on the PS3 as WPA, it can't connect to the Network at all. If I set it as WEP however, it connects to the Network but times out obtaining the IP address. I'm reluctant to alter the settings in case it !!!!!!s up my connection to my work laptop / VPN.

aliEnRIK

Whatever settings you use for your laptop will be fine to use on the PS3 so use them

Log into the router and (its hard to say which version of 'netgear router manager' you have so yours could be different) mines in WAN SETUP. Whatever the PS3 is logged in as I change the ip to it as the 'DEFAULT DMZ SERVER'. To make sure the ip never changes I also goto LAN SETUP and using the PS3s MAC ADDRESS I make sure its always 192.168.1.3

What this means is that everytime the PS3 connects it ALWAYS designates it the same ip (192.168.1.3) and I put that same ip as my default DMZ (meaning its outside the routers firewall)

maxtweenie

Thanks, I've tried this, but I have a different problem now. I can't connect my laptop to my work VPN as it can't resolve the domain name, and none of my devices can connect to sites like William Hill (I think it's something to do with FTP?)

aliEnRIK

odd ~ youve not changed anything which 'should' have affected the laptop
Only thing I can think of is your using the ip address which the laptop was using? That or youve changed something else?

Have you tried simply powering EVERYTHING off and on again? (let the router boot first)

maxtweenie

I've shut them off one by one, but not all at the same time. I'm going to shut everything off later after the boy's finished killing mutants on Resistance 2 (the PS3's connected via the ethernet at the moment.)

I set the PS3 static IP as 192.168.01.04, where the default gateway is 01, my laptop on the wireless network is currently 02, and the desktop on the ethernet connection is 03 so that shouldn't have caused it.

It's doing my head in now as I've obviously done something to the router settings. Work are going to try and repair the VPN connection, although I'm pretty sure it's connected somehow to the lack of FTP connection? The guy on our IT helpdesk said that the VPN experts are all "twenty something gaming geeks" so they may be able to sort out the PS3 at the same time lol.