I have 30 - 40 % signal on my ps3 which is not that far away from the bt home hub thingy, what would be the easiest way of increasing this without moving ps3 or router? i have looked into repeaters but are these anygood?

what ps3 have you got. i have the 40gig version but can't seem to set up the wireless. not sure it's rigged up to accept it.

is there sometime large and metal in the way?
remeber wifi on 2.4ghz is only line of sight receive/ transmit?

something in the way will give you a week signal

we got a wifi booster once, it only worked with specific models of linksys routers (it was a linksys booster too)

If you want to get locost (and who doesn't?!) you can build a directional antenna for wifi out of a whiskey can, amongst other things.

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

I've built one.. but had a crap network card and haven't tried it again since I got a better one. hmm. Might try it again..

Try turning you aerial to 90 degrees i.e it faces left.

hth.

ive bought my kid a ps3 for xmas. i no you can play games online but how do you. do you just log on to a ps3 site and pick a game or do you have to load a game and play online with that game.
adam


soz to hijack

i have the 60 gb model, will try the free ideas first, you need to register your ps3 with the playstation network which is easy then once your playing games there will be the online options, happy gaming, oh you can access your pc through networks if you use windows media player 11 youtube has some helpfull vids! ( There is no metal in the way but a few walls, real ones! mmm )

Mac

[Edited on 29/12/07 by macspeedy]

This will sound daft, but a small change in positioning can make allot of difference

If not try a high gain indoor antenna on the home hub, they work well

i don't think you can change the antenna on the home hub can you? if you can, i'd be interested to do it!

Most of the cheap high-gain antennas on the market make little to no difference, decent antennas are expensive things.

As long as all of your wireless devices are on roughly the same horizontal level then you should keep the antenna upright, the major reception lobe is a flattened donut shape encircling the antenna. I don't know which way the antenna is oriented in the PS3 but try it on it's side and upright and see if one is any better. Walls really won't help either, particularly thick concrete ones like mine. Try and position things so that the signal path passes straight through any walls rather than at an angle, having to pass through at a steep angle can more than double the effective thickness of the obstruction.

With a bean tin and a bit of copper wire you can go from -95dB signal to > -80dB. That more than quadruples your range, well worth having (unless I've got my bels and my inverse squares wrong).

I've had experience with the bigger screw on ariels that you can pick up for around an ayrton senner and they worked really well.

Pat...

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Originally posted by Scoobylav
I was speaking to someone about this just the other day. Their solution was a system that uses your house wiring as a network, kind of gets rid of the wireless functionality but for a PS3 i guess this is ok.

How it works is that you get a unit that plugs into a socket that you then run a network cable from the router into, then near to the PS3 you have another that you wire a network cable from the PS3 to the unit.

Dont know how good they are or what they are called but hope this may help.

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Powerline ethernet adaptors

Very good idea



[Edited on 30-12-2007 by onzarob]

I'm not that up to speed on tech, what do these do, heres a run down on the setup, The wifi router is in a room diagonaly and along a bit, i have a pc in the same room as the ps3 (other end in a cupboard) the ps3 is at the other end the router is about 10 12 meteres from the ps3 the pc is connected by cable to the router, i do have a wifi dongle would it be worth trying this! to shorten the gap from ps3 to signal or would the pc to router link slow things ??

Thanks Mac