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by askidmore

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I have a question for all you fellow techies out there. This is kind of an oddball question and I have searched other places and forums already. I have a Sony Playstation 3 and every time the lil bugger is powered on it literally hijacks my Linksys WRT54G router and kicks all the other connections offline. I have not been able to figure out whether this is a router issue or the PS3 causing this craziness. The PS3 is connecting wirelessly to the router and all my other hardware is hardwired directly to the router via cat5. Any one have any ideas?

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by navy moose

I seem to remember being able to put one port outside the firewall so the firewall won't interfere with it.

Do you have the latest firmware for the router? The current release is Linux based and is very customizable.

You might want to upgrade the wireless card driver and application to make sure you have the latest and greatest.

Other than these tips, I can't think of anything.

by askidmore

Yeah, thanks for the ideas. I have put it on it's own. I have the latest firmware and drivers for everything. I tried even putting it on DMZ and even tried QOS for everything to try and make it use limited bandwidth as compared to my wired devices like my pc and VOIP adapter. Still every time it powers on, it kicks all my other connections on the router offline for 10-30 secs. I will continue to bang my head against the wall on this one, perhaps a few bricks will break lol.

by sultansaadat

Try Updating the firmware, it will definitely help out because linksys wrt54g has problems with the stock fimrware.

by askidmore

I went to Linksys to try to do that already. Unfortunately for my revision, I am at work now so I am not sure which revision it is, either 4 or 5, does not have an updated firmware. I also tried looking for one of the custom firmwares out there too and all the ones I could find said not to use with my revision. I don't know, maybe I will have to trade this one in on a different revision. Perhaps I can find the original somewhere so I can flash a custom on it. Thanks for the help!

by adam333777

I would always have problems with my router before I made this one simple change. Change the gateway address from the default 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.2.1. It sounds crazy but my router used to always go offline somehow and would not work at all until I unplugged it and powered down my pc. It seems weird but I was just about to buy a new router till I tried this. May not help you with your PS3 but worth a shot.

by kler83

Most PS3 or play station has a static IP and most of the time it's 192.168.1.1 which happens to be the default ip address of most Linksys routers, unless changed manually. So if you happen to use to same IP address, they will create conflict and is the reason why you cannot get online. This is not only for ps3 but for some printers as well

by askidmore

My router was setup with a different IP when I installed it. Thanks for the comment though!

by paniczero

Did you ever get a resolution to this problem. I am seeing
the same issue, and it's a real pain.

Thanks for any help.

by askidmore

No, unfortunately, I have not been able to find a way around this wireless conundrum. I did find however, that it is ONLY the wireless. When the PS3 is hardwired to the router, this issue does not present itself. I will be sure to let you know if I figure this thing out.

by jhartdude

This doesn't help (other than to let you know you're not alone :), but I'm seeing the same thing: PS3 fires up, all wireless devices are promptly dropped

I've seen instances of this on several other forums -- you'd think a Linksys patch would be made available to address it.

I'll keep digging and shoot off a support ticket to Linksys.

Thanks,

Joe

by jhartdude

Good News!

While looking through the Linksys forums, I came across a post describing how to get around this problem. You need to disable the uPNP setting in the router. I gave this a shot and it seemed to take care of the problem (I'm not familiar with this setting, however, so I'm not sure if I need it for anything else).

Once logged into the WRT54G's "web console" page, you can find the uPNP checkbox on the Administration / Management page. Just mark it as 'Disabled'.

That solved my problem -- hope it helps you with yours!

- Joe

PS. While this seemed to do the trick, I still think a firmware upgrade from Linksys is in order so we don't have to disable any router features to make this work.

by askidmore

I am currently at work, so I can't test this, but I am reasonably sure that I have already tried it with and without UPNP. I will give it a try again when I get home and post and let you guys know if this is actually working. I am pretty certain that I have UPNP disabled though. It is worth a shot, I will give it a try and post an update.

Thanks!

by jhartdude

Definitely let us know if that doesn't work. It may be a combination of settings I have in the router that have fixed the problem. I just know that the only router setting I've changed in the past 6 months was to uncheck the uPNP checkbox.

Hope it works for ya.

Joe

by askidmore

Yes, I know this isn't helping, but hopefully one of us will find and answer. I have had several tickets fired off to Linksys for about 6 months now with nothing other than ONE canned response. I truly hope you have more luck.

by mayhem1969

disabling the media server on your PS3. I have read where that has solved the problem. Make sure UPnP is still selected.

by askidmore

I have not tried that and this is the first time I have heard it. I will give it a try. Thanks!

Oh, and as for the UPNP from the post earlier, that does not work.

by drkarchangel82

Having the same problem... any solutions found? I opened up some ports via linksys router and was able to connect for over an hour but was only using the chat room feature with some friends... once we decided to play COD4 I had to do an update for the game and my router started to do it's usual restart every 8-10 sec. After that I was unable to connect again to the playstation network other than the few seconds.

by drkarchangel82

After so many hours tonight.. omg! I disabled the uPnP option from the Linksys "Administration / Management" page, turned off router for about a minute, turned on router and **waited** couple of minutes for an internet connection through pc and then fired up my PS3(make sure console is completely off while messing with the router). Bam! Just like that the console was connected to the playstation network (PSN). So for you guys that are saying it doesn't work... it does! I restarted my ps3 a couple of times to test it and it's running smoothly through the PSN. If you want to know what other settings I had my ps3 at email me and I'll look into it. BUT FOR SURE SCRATCH OUT UPNP (whatever it does) FOR NOW!!!!!!!!

Thanks Jhartdude.. much props to you

by jhartdude

...doesn't sound like it's the fix for everyone, but it seems to work for some. I haven't had any issues since then.

Happy networking!

by askidmore

Sorry, I haven't replied back to this yet, but it was indeed the UPNP, but not on the router in my case. The PS3 automatically enables UPNP, but if you go through the manual setup of the connection in the PS3 it allows you to turn it off and now mine is operating perfectly! Thanks all for the assistance.

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