Connecting to internet through PS3. HELP!!!

[PowerKop]

I'm trying to connect to the net via my 3 mobile wireless USB connection. I plug the USB into the USB slots at the front of the PS3, but when I search for the network my 3 connection doesn't come up.

Do i need an ethernet connection or something, or do I need to fiddle with the settings.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Forzaport]

As far as i know you can only connect via the inbuilt wireless or ethernet cable. I doubt your 3 dongle will work on the ps3, but i may be wrong. Good luck anyway.

 

[DonMania#5]

Yeah, i don't think that will work on the PS3.

 

[HBK619]

Yeah I've tried with mine, doesn't work.

 

[PowerKop]

Over on Whirlpool they all seem to think I can do it. Does anyone use an ethernet cable. Seems to be the solution

 

[ben_cats_fan]

Over on Whirlpool they all seem to think I can do it. Does anyone use an ethernet cable. Seems to be the solution

You cannot plug your wireless dongle into the PS3 & expect it to work. Just won't happen. In regards to the ethernet cable, I'm fairly sure you can plug your dongle into a laptop or set up your desktop near your ps3 & run the cable from the laptop/desktop into your ps3 via an ethernet cable.

 

[Abaddon]

above post is correct. you can use the USB connection into a latop/PC then with Ethernet connection or Wifi. You cannot connect directly using the USB port.

 

[ripitup27]

Unrelated to the internet, but why can't I plug my external in to the PS3 and browse the movie and music files...do they need to be a certain format?

 

[PowerKop]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think I will head to Dick Smiths to get an ethernet cable. Does anyone know whether online gaming will be a bit slower using an ethernet cable??

 

[ben_cats_fan]

Unrelated to the internet, but why can't I plug my external in to the PS3 and browse the movie and music files...do they need to be a certain format?

Click the Triangle button and i think it's display all. That should work.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think I will head to Dick Smiths to get an ethernet cable. Does anyone know whether online gaming will be a bit slower using an ethernet cable??

I should imagine so. Wireless 3G internet isn't terribly fast in my experience anyway.

 

[prosserd]

Unrelated to the internet, but why can't I plug my external in to the PS3 and browse the movie and music files...do they need to be a certain format?

Needs to be FAT32 formatted disk I believe.

MP3's & AVI's should then load OK

Not tried it myself though... but NTFS formatting on the disk won't work I think I read....

 

[Forzaport]

Needs to be FAT32 formatted disk I believe.

MP3's & AVI's should then load OK

Not tried it myself though... but NTFS formatting on the disk won't work I think I read....

Correct, PS3 only recognises FAT32. Hopefully one day it'll be compatible with NTFS.

 

[Abaddon]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think I will head to Dick Smiths to get an ethernet cable. Does anyone know whether online gaming will be a bit slower using an ethernet cable??

the bandwidth on a Cat 6 cable is 1Gbps, much faster than using Wifi.
The limiting factor will be the speed of your internet connection.

 

[PowerKop]

the bandwidth on a Cat 6 cable is 1Gbps, much faster than using Wifi.
The limiting factor will be the speed of your internet connection.

Yeah it's reasonably quick, around the 2000 mbps mark, so hopefully should be ok for online gaming with the ethernet cable

 

[DonMania#5]

Correct, PS3 only recognises FAT32. Hopefully one day it'll be compatible with NTFS.

You can convert your external from NTFS to FAT32.

 

[HBK619]

You can convert your external from NTFS to FAT32.

Can that be done without losing all the data on the HDD?

 

[Mr Eagle]

Can that be done without losing all the data on the HDD?

Yes, but it's not that simple (and I'm doing this off the top of my head so someone correct me if I've got this wrong).

If you've got 50%+ of the external disk free you could create a partition on the disk and format that partition to FAT32. A WinXP machine would then see two hard drives (one NTFS format, one FAT32 format), and you'd be able to copy the content from the NTFS partition over to the FAT32 partition.

(you could also do it with less than 50% free but the new partition wouldn't be big enough to fit all your data)

Of course the much easier option is to dump your data back on the main computer, format the external to FAT32 from scratch and then reload.

 

[HBK619]

Yes, but it's not that simple (and I'm doing this off the top of my head so someone correct me if I've got this wrong).

If you've got 50%+ of the external disk free you could create a partition on the disk and format that partition to FAT32. A WinXP machine would then see two hard drives (one NTFS format, one FAT32 format), and you'd be able to copy the content from the NTFS partition over to the FAT32 partition.

(you could also do it with less than 50% free but the new partition wouldn't be big enough to fit all your data)

Of course the much easier option is to dump your data back on the main computer, format the external to FAT32 from scratch and then reload

Sorry to be n00bing this thread up, but any idea how can I reformat it? Or do the partitioning format?

 

[Niximus]

Sorry to be n00bing this thread up, but any idea how can I reformat it? Or do the partitioning format?

I formatted an external HDD to use with my PS3. I found that with a pc you will need specific software to format an external drive as FAT32, for some reason formatting it through windows only allowed me NTFS.

There are options out there for software but the easiest solution I found was to hook it into my GF's Mac and format it in OSX which did FAT32 no problems.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Sorry to be n00bing this thread up, but any idea how can I reformat it? Or do the partitioning format?

Something like this might get you started...

http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246

Google will give you more.

 

[moral champion]

Hay, All telecom wireless modems will not connect to ethier xbox 360 or ps3 because they have a built in system preventing you from connecting them externel sources.

 

[Cotchin 9]

Hay, All telecom wireless modems will not connect to ethier xbox 360 or ps3 because they have a built in system preventing you from connecting them externel sources.

We already knew *******.