I have had my Playstation 3 for a week now and im having continuing problems getting a stable connection to the Playstation Network, basically either i get `Connection Timeout` or i login to PSN only to be booted a few moments later, However i can browse the internet Fine, I just cannot enter the Playstation store or play online games. I have a linksys AG241v2 router with two computers + PS3 running from it.

I have assigned the playstation 3 to a static Ip address, and then in the router assigned that ip address to DMZ as suggested in your forums, however this does not help with the time outs or disconnections.

I have also tried Port forwarding the PSN ports within the router as well, all to no effect.

I have tried Disabling UPnP, within the router and on the ps3 as i am led to believe Ps3 and linksys routers are incompatiable, however all to no effect.

Typically when i Test the internet connection on the ps3 i get this

Ip Adresss - Successfull
Internet connection - succesfull
Playstation network - failed.

on occasion it says this

Ip Address - successfull
Internet connection - Successful
Playstation Network - Successful
UPnP - Disabled
Nat Type - Type 2

However if i try to log onto the PS network it fails with a time out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as im tearing my hair out.

Si

Sorry i should have been more clear, the ports are not forwarded at the same time as the DMZ.

Just to clarify, i`ve assigned my ps3 into dmz, via the dmz setting in the router, dhcp is disabled in the router as my other computers are assigned using a static ip address as i have ports that are open for each and require them to have the same ip address when the computer starts.

Pc 1 = 192.168.1.2 (single port forward assigned)
pc 2 = 192.168.1.3 (single port forward assigned)
ps3 = 192.168.1.100 (DMZ assigned)

would this confuse the router? *it confuses me sometimes *

Firewall is on on the router, you think turning this off may be worth a try. If so that would leave my puters pretty open, could you suggest a decent firewall if the hardware ones disabled?

Kind regards
si

Not to worry mate, it appears to be behaving itself,i reflashed the firmware and reseted the hell out of it, looks like its working as i`ve had no time outs so far and its been fine for 24 hours so i presume all is well.

Thanks for your time though.

Sorry to re-open this thread, but my problems have started again i have identfyed the problem though, when ever i use utorrent it messes with the Router and the PSN network fails to connect, when you turn utorrent off the problem remains and no amount of reseting the router gets PSN working again.

It really is rather strange.

Aside from just not using utorrent is there anything you can suggest? I`m thinking that Utorrent just floods the ports on the router confusing the PS3, but i`m not sure how to correct this.

Thanks for your time

Thanks for replying. I`ve tried forwarded a specific port for utorrent, however it still has the problem. As the PS3 is in the DMZ could Port Forwarding a specific port somehow Priorize Utorrent rather than DMZ. And is there a specific port range you could recommend which is out of the PSN port range.

I will give another client a go and see what happens. For legit reasons of course

Cheers.