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1. You probably need a crossed ethernet cable when you connect two devices directly, without a hub between them.

2. When you activate ICS (Internet Connection Sharing), the IP address of the ethernet interface of your computer is changed to 192.168.0.1 (Think I'm right, but double check). I don't thinkg you have any DHCP server on your computer, so you may need to manually enter IP address, subnet mask, gateway address and dns server addresses in your PS3. Use these settings:
- IP address: one number higher than the ethernet address of your computer.
- Subnet mask. Same as on the computers ethernet interface. (i.e. 255.255.255.0)
- Gateway IP. The ethernet address of your computer.
- DNS. Any working dns servers. Either look up what dns servers you get on your evdo connection, or use some public dns service. Google-dns, for instance, has 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Good luck

Computer and PS3 you need a Crossover Cable not a Straight Cable. If there is any distance between these two units you can insert a short Crossover and Cat5 Joiner to get the same effect without needing to waste money on long Crossover Cables. or you can follow the advice here and make your own Crossover Cable

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=3442&tag=content;leftCol

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Yes. It is a direct connection between the PC and the PS3
I will try the above steps and will check and will let you know
Thanks

I got a crossover cable but still does not seem to work

Now my PC and PS3 are detecting the ethernet cable

I have the cable running directly from the PC to the PS3.

A icon in the right hand bottom corner where the time is located shows the icon with the two computers and it says "local area connection, speed: 100 mbps, status: connected" (I have Windows Xp)

I have two icons in the network connections (If I go to start, control panel and then network connections)-
One says "MY ISP" and the second says "Local area connection"

When I went to "MY ISP"'s properties in network connections and then the advanced tab and clicked under Internet connection sharing "Allow other network users...." it did change the ethernet ip address to 192.168.0.1 and the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0" which I confirmed when I went to "Local Area Connection" icon properties in the network connections and double click on Internet protocol

But when I go to my PS3 menu - network settings and then click on internet connections settings and then ok, the icon on the PC on the right hand bottom corner immediately says "a network cable is unplugged".
Everytime I choose some settings it says "a network cable is unplugged" and then If I wait sometime it goes back to "Connected"
I finally came to the screen where it asks me to choose "Easy" or "Custom", waited for some time and then the icon on the PC said it was connected. But when I chose Easy it gave the same message again saying "a network cable is unplugged" and then it said checking network configuration, please wait and then it gave me a message saying "The attempt to obtain a Ip address timed out"

I tried the custom option

Here is what it asks me
Wired Connection or Wireless - I chose Wired Connection
Select the operation mode of the network device. In most cases, select auto-detect.
Auto detect or Manual settings

Method 1 - Here I selected auto-detected

It asks me Ip address setting
Automatic, Manual or PPPoE (Chose Automatic)

Set the DHCP Host name. In most cases the settings does not need to be changed
Do Not Set Or Set (Chose Do Not Set)

DNS setting
Automatic or Manual - Chose Automatic

MTU (Don't Know what that stands for)
Automatic or Manual - Chose Automatic

Proxy Server
Do not use or Use - Chose Do not use

UPnP
Enable or Disable - Chose Enable

Then it asked me to press the x button to save settings which I did

And then it said Save completed.

Gave me an option of "Test Connection"

Here on the PC it was showing Local Area Connection on the right hand bottom corner and it was connected

The moment I pressed test connection it again said "A network cable is unplugged" on the PC and the Checking Ip address on the PS3 failed

Method 2 - Here I selected manual settings after wired connection in the beginning

After selecting manual settings

first it asks me speed and duplex
options are Auto-detect, 10Base-T Half Duplex, 10Base-T Full Duplex, 100 base with the half and full and 1000 base with the half and full (Chose Auto Detect)

Ip address setting
Automatic, Manual, PPPoE (Chose Manual)

Here it asks me for
IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Router,
Primary DNS and Secondary DNS

Ip address I put one more than the ethernet ip address that is 192.168.0.2, Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0, for default router I put the ip address of the PPP adaptor (type cmd in run box and then type ipconfig and then get the ip address for the PPP adaptor which varies everytime I connect and disconnect), for primary and secondary dns I chose the one for open dns that is 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

Then MTU, Proxy Server, UPnP and then it asks me to save settings. (The same settings I chose as for method 1)

I save the settings and then test connection.
It says Obtain Ip address: Succeeded but the next line says Internet connection: Failed

And a message on the bottom says "An error occured during communication with the server. This is a DNS error (80710102)

Thanks in advance if anybody can help

I tried the network setup wizard but still does not connect

There are two icons on the right hand bottom corner. One is my internet connection which I get from my EVDO wireless USB modem and it connects once I use the software and able to browse the internet on the PC.

The other icon is the Local Area Connection. Where it says connected in the right hand bottom corner (PC to PS3). The moment I start configuring the PS3 starting from Internet connection settings menu, the moment I press the button to start the configuration. I get the message on my PC saying "a network cable is unplugged" and it happens everytime I try to choose to select something on the PS3. After a few seconds it goes back to connected

My desktop is not wireless. So I guess it is turned off. And I am trying to use the wired option in the PS3 so don't know if there is a way to turn off the wireless on the PS3

When I type cmd in the run box and then type ipconfig the PPP adaptor is my wireless USB EVDO modem. I get different IP addresses everytime I connnect or disconnect. I do not know how to make it static

Default gateway should be updated where? Is the Default router field?

Thanks

Do not know how
But what I did was uninstall the ethernet adaptor from my PC, uninstalled the EVDO modem software from the PC. Restarted the computer. Reinstalled the EVDO modem software.

Made the changes to the default router in PS3 to the one indicated by Tobif. Shut the PS3 down. And after sometime when I wanted to play the Heavy Rain disc it started saying that version 2.0 was available for Heavy rain and it started downloading the data. I have not checked everything but it seems to be connected.

Thanks for everybody's help

I tried playing Uncharted 2 online but it says the settings are not correct and I need to check the NAT type in Internet Connection Test

It seems that the PS3 is connected to the internet if I use the browser, able to download system and game updates, able to use playstation store

When I go to Internet Connection Test it does the same thing, it gives me an error saying ip address obtained but internet connection failed and on the PC it says network cable unplugged. Can someone please give me step by step instructions so I can start over?