Problems with PS3 and my Router

[ImBob]

Looking to see if anyone out there can help me with this.

Every single time I turn on my PS3 it knocks everything else in the house off the connection to my router. Most of the time after about a minute every thing else just reconnects with out a problem. But occasionally I have to go and unplug the router and the modem in order for everything to connect back up. The other devices I have that get disconnected are a Wii, PC, laptop, and a cell phone.

Any ideas?

[ScourDX]

It depends on router signal. Some cheap router can accept few wireless connection. If you have more device, it will cause disruption to other device.

[Lanzo]

My ps3 does the same thing. I have a switch with an 360, pc, wii, and ps3 all wired, but when I turn my ps3 on everything stops working in my room. My router is a linksys wrt54g and my switch is also a linksys. I haven't found a way to fix it, but I don't really play ps3 that much so I just keep it offline anyway. I def. think its a problem on the ps3's side because nothing else does it.

[DeputyMoniker]

My ps3 does the same thing. I have a switch with an 360, pc, wii, and ps3 all wired, but when I turn my ps3 on everything stops working in my room. My router is a linksys wrt54g and my switch is also a linksys. I haven't found a way to fix it, but I don't really play ps3 that much so I just keep it offline anyway. I def. think its a problem on the ps3's side because nothing else does it.

That's an excellent router. If you haven't done so already, try flashing it with the Tomato firmware and let me know if that solves it.

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

Imbob, what model of router are you using?

[Sonicwolf]

Disable uPnP. That's the solution when I and many others have encountered this problem.

[megasdkirby]

That's an excellent router. If you haven't done so already, try flashing it with the Tomato firmware and let me know if that solves it.

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

This. Though instead of Tomato, I am using DD-WRT and have not had an issue since.

[portnoyd]

This. Though instead of Tomato, I am using DD-WRT and have not had an issue since.

Yeah, DD-WRT is the shit. I'd use that considering you already own the DD-WRT gold standard router.

I kinda have the same problem with my PS3. When you boot up your PS3, leave the controller plugged into the system. I found that my wireless controller will choke my wireless signal in my house down to dial-up level. This shouldn't be happening, but as I've read, I paid $600 for a system with one of the worst wireless adapters you can imagine.

[Lucifersam1]

Honestly, I read a ton of posts, etc., on this matter. I disabled/changed a bunch of stuff on my router. Did some port forwarding. Nothing worked. What I eventually did was take another wireless router I had, turned it into a wireless bridge (via instructions on the web), and hooked my PS3, 360, and Plasma up to it. I use a wired connection on each of those devices to the bridge, and then that bridge connects (wirelessly) to my main wireless router. Kinda round about, but I already had the extra router, and it was a cheap way to get my 360 and TV to be wireless while fixing that pesky PS3 problem.

Maybe you can try something like that?

Looking to see if anyone out there can help me with this.

Every single time I turn on my PS3 it knocks everything else in the house off the connection to my router. Most of the time after about a minute every thing else just reconnects with out a problem. But occasionally I have to go and unplug the router and the modem in order for everything to connect back up. The other devices I have that get disconnected are a Wii, PC, laptop, and a cell phone.

Any ideas?

[xfrumx]

I have the WRT54G Linksys router and when I turned off media sharing on the PS3 it fixed the problem. When I do wanna connect I turn off the wireless on my computer I am connecting to turn on media servers then turn on the computer wireless after 30 seconds or so. I don't have as many problems trying to connect to PSN. I think it is my computer or router maybe the settings on them but I have tried forwarding and anything I could find.

I have the original 60GB PS3 if that makes a difference. I have hooked it up at friends houses and used friends who have had the same PS3 on their own setups and never seem to have problems so I have come to think it is my Linksys or PC.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Routers are such a fickle bit of technology. I'm always amused when I go to Micro Center and see the MASSIVE amount of refurbished routers for sale there. It's nice that they sell them in that state for a low price, but it's also wildly indicative of how fragile the damn things are.

At my previous apartment where I know for a fact that the power was improperly grounded (and probably subject to every single bit of unconditioned electrical spikes that ran down the line) I would go through a router a year. They would simply "fail" in terms of being able to handle any type of data transfer, WiFi, wired or otherwise. The only thing I could trace the cause back to was the power line frying them.

The building was very very old and there wasn't anything I could do about it.

There was also a pretty frequent occurrence of in-house brown outs due to really bad load balancing on the circuit breakers ... and if there's one thing that sensitive electronics can't survive long-term it's a brown out.

In my current condo which seems to have very clean grounded electricity I've had much less problems with general/complete router failure.

While I would look into the condition of the electricity at your place (check the grounding at the very least) ... I would consider the age/overall functionality of your router.

Has it weathered several years of frequent use? Is it in a place where it could overheat? To the best of your knowledge has it lived through any brown-outs?

None of those things may solve the conundrum of JUST a PS3 causing your router to bump everything else off ... but it may be something to keep in mind.

If the problem only occurs when the PS3 powers up and tries to get on the network, maybe the router is bumping everything because the PS3 is trying to re-connect with a static IP address that's already registered to another active device on the network.

Did you do the easy network setup on your PS3? Is it assigned to an automatically assigned IP or a static one?

I would also recommend turning off the media server feature on the PS3, as great as it is it's pretty aggressive in trying to look for every single bit of media on the network, and if you're network firewalls and device firewalls aren't open to that kind of activity it could make a big mess every time you power on.

I would also try some of the firmware update suggestions that other users have supplied. They may be able to juggle the traffic better than the stock-standard Linksys firmware.

[Cornelius]

The factory firmware on those WRT-54G routers is utter garbage. Like the others have said, put tomato or ddwrt on there. You owe it to yourself to do this. And while it sounds a little scary at first, it is really incredibly simple and when you are done you'll be thinking "that's it?"

[portnoyd]

Honestly, I read a ton of posts, etc., on this matter. I disabled/changed a bunch of stuff on my router. Did some port forwarding. Nothing worked. What I eventually did was take another wireless router I had, turned it into a wireless bridge (via instructions on the web), and hooked my PS3, 360, and Plasma up to it. I use a wired connection on each of those devices to the bridge, and then that bridge connects (wirelessly) to my main wireless router. Kinda round about, but I already had the extra router, and it was a cheap way to get my 360 and TV to be wireless while fixing that pesky PS3 problem.

I do this with my 360 and HTPC. I would do it with my PS3 if I had another one to spare and I didn't have the free solution of plugging my controller in.

The factory firmware on those WRT-54G routers is utter garbage. Like the others have said, put tomato or ddwrt on there. You owe it to yourself to do this. And while it sounds a little scary at first, it is really incredibly simple and when you are done you'll be thinking "that's it?"

This. Two weekends ago, I DD-WRT'd two WAPs with no problem at all. I spent the most time trying to access the control panel for the WAPs (at 192.168.2.254? The hell.). The only rub is that version of Belkin WAP requires you to initiate the firmware update within one second of powering it up. Random!