[FourthDoc]

Hi all

Well, it seems my solution was short-lived. Over time things deteriorated for no good reason - at first only some elements of web pages stopped loading up, then I found that my user and friend logo's wouldn't load (even though I was supposedly still on the PS network) and the logo's in the playstation store wouldn't load, even though the text for the downloads would... Some days it would be better than others, but yesterday I tweaked the IP to see what would happen and it got better, and then even worse.

In short, I'm convinced that the PS3's wireless functionality is seriously lacking. Ok, I do have a BTHomeHub, but I have a laptop, a PC, a mobile phone and an Xbox connected to it without ANY of these problems... So, I think it's the PS3.

To prove the point, I solved my problems in 3 minutes yesterday by buying a ethernet-over-power adaptor. I plugged one unit into a socket near the router, the other next to the ps3, hooked up the network cables and that was it: the store loads, the web works, the PS Network behaves properly. Even the dreaded Media connectivity works (and because it's 200mbps wired technology it streams High def video to the ps3 from the PC without any of the bandwidth problems of wireless) - and no, the media server doesn't crash or affect anything else - which means that the problems other people have had with that (loads of people recommend switching it off to solve wireless connection issues) are nothing to do with the media server but yet more associated problems with the wireless connectivity of the PS3 (it's as though wireless + media server = confused traffic to the router.)

Anyway, that was it - all in all, if you have a ps3 I'd save yourself months of frustration and tweaking network settings and buy an ethernet-over-powerline adaptor set.

cheers
Fourthdoc

PS: I still used the same fixed-IP and manual dns settings as I was using with wireless - it worked right away so I didn't change it.