Brand-new PS3 is unbearably slow online!
Hi guys,
So, I took the plunge on Black Friday and managed to get myself a great deal on a PlayStation 3 via a promotion held by Amazon. The system arrived today, and I couldn't wait to get home and start playing with it!
To make a long story (somewhat) short, I've properly configured my AirPort Extreme 802.11n base station to assign a specific IP address to the PS3, and I've forwarded the correct TCP and UDP ports to the PS3 (going by the info found here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8266247� )
However, no matter how much tinkering I seem to do, everything to do with the wireless connection and the PS3 is just astonishingly slow. I'm on an 8-megabit Comcast cable line, so my broadband speed is pretty good, though you wouldn't know it to see the PS3 downloading an update! I'm currently installing the "Life With PlayStation" update (I want to play with Folding@home!), which is only 125 megs, and yet (at this rate) it's going to take 30-45 minutes just to download. Arrgh.
In fact, before I was able to really do anything with the PS3, it required me to download a major system update, which took 2.5 hours! Yikes!
My network is pretty normal - I've got my cable modem in my office, connected to a Hawking Broadband Booster (a nifty packet-prioritizing device that keeps my throughput almost lag-free) which runs into the AirPort Extreme. The whole setup is about 10 feet away from the PS3 (through a thin wall), and the PS3 reports a ~85% connection strength, so I don't think that's the issue. When I run the "Connection Test" on the PS3, everything goes through (except UPnP, which the AirPorts don't support), but my update and demo downloads are just terribly slow, even while other machines on my network (my MacBook Pro, Xbox 360, etc.) are able to rapidly download much larger files.
Any ideas or thoughts would be great - I'm getting pretty frustrated!
Thanks,
Huxley
So, I took the plunge on Black Friday and managed to get myself a great deal on a PlayStation 3 via a promotion held by Amazon. The system arrived today, and I couldn't wait to get home and start playing with it!
To make a long story (somewhat) short, I've properly configured my AirPort Extreme 802.11n base station to assign a specific IP address to the PS3, and I've forwarded the correct TCP and UDP ports to the PS3 (going by the info found here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8266247� )
However, no matter how much tinkering I seem to do, everything to do with the wireless connection and the PS3 is just astonishingly slow. I'm on an 8-megabit Comcast cable line, so my broadband speed is pretty good, though you wouldn't know it to see the PS3 downloading an update! I'm currently installing the "Life With PlayStation" update (I want to play with Folding@home!), which is only 125 megs, and yet (at this rate) it's going to take 30-45 minutes just to download. Arrgh.
In fact, before I was able to really do anything with the PS3, it required me to download a major system update, which took 2.5 hours! Yikes!
My network is pretty normal - I've got my cable modem in my office, connected to a Hawking Broadband Booster (a nifty packet-prioritizing device that keeps my throughput almost lag-free) which runs into the AirPort Extreme. The whole setup is about 10 feet away from the PS3 (through a thin wall), and the PS3 reports a ~85% connection strength, so I don't think that's the issue. When I run the "Connection Test" on the PS3, everything goes through (except UPnP, which the AirPorts don't support), but my update and demo downloads are just terribly slow, even while other machines on my network (my MacBook Pro, Xbox 360, etc.) are able to rapidly download much larger files.
Any ideas or thoughts would be great - I'm getting pretty frustrated!
Thanks,
Huxley
MacBook Pro 2.33 w/ 4GB RAM + 200GB 7200rpm HDD, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
