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Sky Broadband no connection to PS3

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  • 30-09-2013 11:00pm
    #1
    Motivator
    Registered Users Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I've switched to Sky from Eircom & I cannot connect my PS3 to the WiFi. It is incredibly frustrating & after 5 or 6 calls to Sky I'm still no closer to a solution. I contacted Playstation who told me it is more than likely a problem with Sky blocking the ports for the Playstation. I rang sky back with codes that Playstation support gave me & the guy in Sky told me he couldn't change them but gave me the name of a website which shows me how. This leads me to believe this is the problem. The Playstation is picking up the WiFi no problem (49% signal strength) but it just won't connect as I keep getting a "no I.P address" problem.

    Has anyone encountered similar problems with Sky? If so, I would appreciate any information you might have on the issue & perhaps you may throw a possibly solution my way as I am unfamiliar with how to change the ports myself


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    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,298 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    Motivator wrote: »
    Hi, I've switched to Sky from Eircom & I cannot connect my PS3 to the WiFi. It is incredibly frustrating & after 5 or 6 calls to Sky I'm still no closer to a solution. I contacted Playstation who told me it is more than likely a problem with Sky blocking the ports for the Playstation. I rang sky back with codes that Playstation support gave me & the guy in Sky told me he couldn't change them but gave me the name of a website which shows me how. This leads me to believe this is the problem. The Playstation is picking up the WiFi no problem (49% signal strength) but it just won't connect as I keep getting a "no I.P address" problem.

    Has anyone encountered similar problems with Sky? If so, I would appreciate any information you might have on the issue & perhaps you may throw a possibly solution my way as I am unfamiliar with how to change the ports myself

    49% signal strength, why is your PS3 in a different county to the router...:p
    Why would you want to go online with that - I'd imagine the lag would be awful.
    Did you try connecting wired to see if there is a problem?

    That signal strength doesn't fill me with confidence at all.


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    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,781 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Are you actually connected to the wifi though?
    Try the browser and see if you can get onto a website.
    As Fingers suggested try it with a cable directly into the Sky broadband router.
    Low signal indeed.

    Ed


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