oh man, now it says internet connection failed=( dns error of some sort. but i can sign in to my psn account. what seems to be the problem? can you send me a detailed how-to with if you were using a modem like mine?

hey bro my dns is already okay. but still getting nat3.is my use of a switch hub the reason why its nat3?is it possible to get a wireless router and connect to the hub?the modem is in another room and the only way i can get internet into my room is using hub. i am asking this as i can't buy a wireless router without first checking if it works because in my country routers are still expensive. its like this: ROOM1 has my PC and the modem,i used hub in ROOM1 and connected a utp cable from ROOM1 to ROOM2(ROOM2 is where my PS3 is located.)both rooms are separated by walls. I can't put the router in ROOM1 because the signal cant penetrate the wall. so i am thinking of getting a wireless router(assuming ill get nat2 by doing that) and put the wireless router in ROOM2, in turn the wireless router will be connected via utp cable to the hub in ROOM1? i hope you can picture it out thanks a lot!!

so what you are saying is ill replace the hub with a router?and connect a utp cable from my ps3 to the router?PS3-router-modem?my modem is a prolink adsl modem/router, is it okay for double router?wont i still get nat 3 because it is being double firewalled?

thanks bro!!ill try it out.you have been very helpful thanks=)

Is this thread still open? Well...I finally got my PS3...best buy ever!! But before going with my internet issues I have one question.
I got my Internet service from my cable operator...they installed a modem with an Ethernet out-cable which goes to my computer...Does this cable go to the PS3? I already tried but failed miserably...I read the threads and tonight I'm going manual with everything but my problem might be that this cable is not even the right one. To me it doesn't make sense to plug a router to my modem...Which info should I take from my PC and the network settings? I'm gonna do the switch off modem thing...thanx for your time.

I am using a wired connection directly from the wall from my apartment internet service provider. i have enterred all the information manually but i am continually getting the successful obtaining of ip adress but a failed internet connection with the error 80028E06. I have read all the previous posts but none have really told me how to deal with this problem with a direct wired connection with no router involved. What do i do?

im using a wired connection and i keep getting the dns Error 80710102
i put everything in manually and tried resetting the modem but it still wont work. Please help!!

Alright, normally I wouldn't bother anyone with my issues with the PS3, but recently it's been extremely bothersome. When I'm at home I can mess with the router, and change the IP address to match with the PS3, or I change the WEP key and the PS3 connection will run smoothly. However, since I've gone back to college, I've managed to connect online and sign into the playstation network, but I cannot connect to any of the Multiplayer features of the games. Usually it just takes forever and acts like its loading the multiplayer, or kicks me off the PS3 network with an error message.

Method:Custom
Connection:Wired
Network Device:Auto-Detect
IP Address Setting:Manual (All numbers correct)
MTU:Automatic
Proxy Server: Do not use
UPnP: Not available

I'm not sure if its something with UPnP. Also, I don't have a router, just a ethernet cable that connects to a switch then to the ethernet jack in the wall.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, a lot of the times, the NAT type fails, or I get the error 80710102 when it does try to load up multiplayer

Thank you very much, I'm just sad I will never get to play CoD MW2 online ;;

As I have read a great portion of the blogs from this site which have helped various connection issues I hope my questions won't disappoint. Since purchasing a PS3 I have been unable to receive any wired or wireless connections. I have tried to reconfigure my router to the specifications in this blog for both wired and wireless connections. I have turned off my router and modem for 2 minutes, removed all cables from computer, waited until the router and modem dropped the internet protocol. I hooked up the cables to from the PS3 directly to the modem. After this process I still can't access the internet or playstation store.

Next I hooked the wireless router back up and I manually inputed the Ip address, subnet mask, default gateway, Primary and secondary DNS. I opened up the following ports
* TCP Ports: 80, 443, 5223, and 10070 - 10080
* UDP Ports: 3478, 3479, 3658, 10070, and 50100
I also added the DHCP client list for the ps3 for both IP and MAC. Next I added a firewall access rule for the PS3's mac address. As far as I can tell I have done everything both wired and wirelessly for the PS3 to work, but so far no joy. Any suggestions you have for both wired or wireless would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance

Hi, quick question. I got a ps3 yesterday, set it up, and I'm using a wireless router modem for my internet. I get the 'connection timed out' message whenever i try to test my connection, so i cant get any system updates, let alone game updates, can't go on the psn, cant get an account, nothing. the really stupid thing is, i can use the web browser fine. I'm watching a youtube video on my ps3 right now as i type this. Its just really frustrating cause I don't see why it's not working when it really should. Any help would be greatly appreciated. And just a side note, where my ps3 is set up, I can't actually physically use a wired connection, I can't move the ps3 or anything, so that's not an option.

ok I read through the port forwarding guide, but when it came to actually changing those settings in the router settings, I couldn't find many, if any of them. I'm using a D-link DSL-G604T wireless ADSL router, and it looks completely different to the pictures in the port forwarding guide. There's a DHCP settings tab but that looks completely different and has completely different options to that, and there's no port forwarding tab at all. Sorry, this probably seems really stupid of me but its completely different. I could probably try posting a screenie if it would help. Don't know if it would though.

ok this is kinda frustrating, because I don't actually have that page. I looked in the actual physical manual for the router that it came with, and it said the default IP address was 10.1.1.1. So I used that address, it sent me to a settings menu type thing similar to the one pictured in that manual, but slightly different (minus the setup tab up the top, and completely missing any port forwarding tab/s down the left side in any of the top tabs). I tried getting to the IP address in that manual (192.168.1.1), and the page simply wouldn't load/I got "internet explorer cannot display the webpage" message. For some reason the page I can get at with the router settings looks very similar but has less options, and a distinct lack of anything even resembling port forwarding. It's really quite frustrating when I've got contradicting information about the same stupid router lol.