PS3 + Netgear + Virgin (Cable) ISP + online...

Danny_1983

Evening All...

So i bought a 80GB PS3 at the weekend and have hooked it up to my wireless at home. Everything is fine, can play online games on everything apart from GTA IV. Two of my friends have a 40 and 60gb PS3 and they can send invites online and play in the same game fine. But, when they send me a invite it hangs and then throws me out, giving me various strange errors such as "unable to join a game you were kicked from" etc.

So i have had a quick google and this is what i have changed...

PS3 now has manual IP of 192.168.1.100. I can set a constant ping to it fine even when i am kicked from a game so it dosnt look like a internal LAN issue. I have created a DMZ on my netgear router and pointed it at the IP of the playstation. Dosnt seem to have changed. Settings on the PS3 are NAT type 2. All of the above are recommended from what i have found online.

So....does anyone else have any simliar problems?!

Mishra

Did you try hooking it up via a cable instead of wireless and test it out?

billyr

I had the same problem with Call of Duty 4. It turned out just to be that I didn't have the same map pack installed as my friends.

Edited to add. Failing that, on your router settings there should be an option to place a device in a DMZ. Add your PS3 to the DMZ to ensure that its definately not a port problem your having.

billyr

Danny_1983 wrote:

I have created a DMZ on my netgear router and pointed it at the IP of the playstation.

Looks like you beat me to that one. I really should read more carefully.