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Old 19-02-2008, 12:39 PM   #37
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Re: Trouble With PS3 CONNECTING TO BT HOME HUB

Hi Mitchnufc

If you can't access your hub settings then you have a real problem. If you haven't already then I suggest resetting your homehub. If you still can't access your hub settings after that then perhaps BT can restore your hub remotely.
Assuming you are able to get to your homehub settings, there are a couple of possible reasons why you might be online with a PS3 but no longer able to connect with your desktop pc:
- You may have assigned a manual IP to the ps3, and if you have turned off the DHCP function of your home hub (see: Configuration>IP Addresses on the hub) the hub might be trying, and failing, to assign the same IP to the desktop pc if it was the same as the Ps3's IP the last time it was connected. If you make sure that DHCP is turned on, and go to Configuration>Devices and check that the ps2 and the PC don't have the same IP.

It's odd that you have assigned the ps3 a fixed IP at the same time that you lose the ability to connect to the home hub - make sure that you didn't give the Ps3 the same IP as the one the Hub needs to use (192.168.1.254). If you have then change that IP on the Ps3 to something different - something outside the range of ports used by the homehub for DHCP (See: Configuration>IPaddresses and look under the heading 'DHCP Pools' - as long as you select an IP that is something like 192.168.1 at the start, and the last number isn't inside that DHCP pool range you should be ok.) Then reboot the hub and you should get be able to get to your hub settings again (if that's what the problem was to begin with...)

If they don't have the same IP, then perhaps you have turned on WEP security for your hub but not given the key to your desktop pc yet?

hope something in there helps.

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