PS3 SF4 owners PLEASE READ THIS! (NAT settings in post 21)

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You can delete those images now from imageshack.

To answer your question about the password: Yes, that is your login/password for your “internet”. So, your userID is whatever ends in "@att.net" in that screen shot, and your password is whatever your mom told you, assuming that is the correct password.

Turns out that you have the same firmware that I do on my modem. WRITE and KEEP THE USERID AND PASSWORD INFORMATION, YOU WILL NEED IT LATER TO CONFIGURE YOUR Netgear router

Before we start I need to confirm some things. When you log into your Netgear router, do you see a menu option called “Basic Settings” under “Setup”? If you do, click on that link. You will see some questions like this:

Does Your Internet Connection Require A Login?
Login
Password

If you do then we are good to go.

OK, first thing to do is set your modem (192.168.1.254) to “Bridge” mode. To do this, follow the instructions here:

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/15817

Your internet connection will drop. This is OK, because we have not reconfigured the router yet. That’s next.

Next step, go into your Netgear router. Under the “Basic Settings” where it says “Does Your Internet Connection Require A Login?” Answer Yes to this question. On that same page you’ll see something called “Login”. This is where you will enter in your User ID. On that same page, you’ll see a place to enter in your password to access your internet services. Put your password in there.

Then click the “Test” button. If it is successful, everything should work, and your computers should pick up their wireless internet connections. Click the Apply button next.

If everything does not check out ok, you can reset your modem back to the default settings. There should be a little recessed push button on the back of the modem device that says “Reset”, you’ll need a pin or something to push it in for 5-10 seconds (when you do this, you will have to reenter in your UserID and Password to access the internet on your modem). You will also have to log back into your Netgear router and answer no to the “Does Your Internet Connection Require A Login?” and click Apply.

Hope this helps.

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Okay, let me ask you a few questions mekkanic - In the tutorial it says that after I set it in bridge mode I will be unable to access the 2210’s interface. Is that going to be a problem later? Because other members of my family use this same PC, and I don’t wanna piss them off. Also, the PC is plugged directly into the router, is this going to affect it in any way?

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I cannot access my modem’s interface after setting it in bridge mode, but I don’t need to, because everything I need to control, I do from my router. It shouldn’t affect your other family members IF they are acessing the wireless router to connect to the internet and are not wire plugged directly into the modem to connect to the internet.

Whether it is wired or wireless, your router should still be able to handle the PPPoE duties.

If for some strange reason it doesn’t work, you can always press and hold that “Reset” button for 10 seconds on the modem to reset it back to the original settings, and then go back into your Netgear router and answer “No” to that “Does Your Internet Connection Require A Login?” question and click apply.

Another note: After doing the bridge connection setting deal, you might need to re-enter in your WPA-Key security password that everyone uses to access your wireless connection. This is not required for wired connections.

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It’s gotten to the point where I can barely play anymore. I constantly disconnect between rounds. I have NAT2 settings by default. I’m using a wireless router. It says my connection is strong. I’m not downloading or anything. Is there anything else I need to be looking at?

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Okay, so now that I’ve followed the instructions from your last post, what is left to do? Will the bridge mode allow me set up a static IP, forward ports, etc.? And if so, what exactly should I adjust in your opinion?

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So, your modem is in bridge mode right now? If so, you can forward ports in your Netgear router. I forgot the menu options on the Netgear interface, I’ll have to get back to you when I get home.

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Yes, it is in bridge mode. I’m just kinda waiting on you for further instructions, so I don’t mess anything up.

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if you DMZ then there’s no point of PF. folks just need to set it to the right IP.:yawn:

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ok, you can put your PS3 in your DMZ from your Netgear router. To do this, you go under “WAN Setup” under the “Advanced” menu option. You should see a check box called “Default DMZ server”. Check this box and put in the IP Address of your PS3. No need to set up ports to forward.

No harm in doing that.

After doing this, hopefully you’ll see NAT2 when you test your internet connection on your PS3 (Assuming you put your modem in bridge mode and set up the PPPoE information on your Netgear router correctly).

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I set up the PS3’s IP as the default DMZ server on my router, and now I’m failing to get an internet connection when I run the connection test on my PS3. This is assuming that when I’m setting up my internet that I should select ‘PPPoE’ under ‘IP Address Settings’ and input the appropriate information.

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Hmm…ok I have to ask a series of questions…

  1. Are your computers linking up to your wireless network?

  2. If they are, have you tried removing the PS3 from the DMZ on your router and seeing if that clears up your problem with getting a wireless connection to your PS3?

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I’m sorry, but I don’t understand your first question. However, I tried removing the PS3 from the DMZ and now I have NAT Type 2 for whatever reason. I still have some questions though, like does the signal strength affect the speed of your online play? Because the strength is only 17-20%. And how should I configure the IP Address Settings…Manual or PPPoE?

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Glad you are getting Nat Type 2 …cool deal. When I first did it, I got NAT Type 2 as well without setting up my ports to forward(which is what you will want to do next, I’ll tell you how…). Since putting your PS3 in DMZ is causing issues, we will have to do the “port forwarding” thingie.

What I was meaning to ask in my first question was are your PCs able to get on the internet. It was a troubleshooting question, but based on your latest reply it seems that you are getting an internet connection with your PS3.

To answer your first question, that is a very weak signal strength. When I game online my signal strength is around 90-95%. I don’t know what strength you will need to be at to get moderate performance. If your signal strength is weak, you might wanna try and move your router closer, your PS3 closer, or go wired if you can.

To answer your second question, you would want to choose “manual”, since PPPoE is handled by your router now. You can pick an IP address to assign. Refer to this post on how to do this:

http://www.pregamelobby.com/forum/62506-post1.html. This guy has a Linksys router so the interface to configure port forwarding is different than yours because you have a Netgear router. Read this post before you do anything. It also contains information on what else to enter in for your DNS entries for your PS3.

First thing to do is assign your IP address/DNS addresses to your PS3 . After you assign your PS3 an IP address, WRITE it down, you will need it to configure “port forwarding” on your router.

Here’s how to configure your Netgear router for port forwarding:

If you go under the “Advanced” options menu on the left of your Netgear interface, you should
see something that says “Port Forwarding / Port Triggering”. Click that. You’ll see a screen that has the following options:

“Please select the service type”

you should also see buttons that say “Edit Service” , “Delete Service” and “Add Custom Service”. Click on “Add Custom Service”. You should then see a list of stuff to enter in:

Service Name
Service Type
Starting Port
Ending Port
Server IP Address

For Service Name you can type in whatever name you want. (PS31 or whatever)
For Service Type, you can select TCP, UDP, or TCP/UDP.
You Starting port and ending ports are where you will put the individual ports to forward.
The Server IP Address will be the IP Address of your PS3 (The one you wrote down). Every time you add an entry, you’ll have to click the “Apply” button.

You’ll do 2 entries for TCP which is for starting and ending port 80, and starting and ending port 443.
You’ll do 1 entry for TCP/UDP which is for starting and ending port 5223.
You’ll do 2 entries for UDP which is for starting port 3478 and ending port 3479, and starting and ending port 3658.

So when you get done you will have a list of 5 entries with 6 ports forwarded.

Let me know what happens.:rock:

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You’ll have to set up your PS3 to obtain ip configurations automatically, according to the error message you are getting on your modem.

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If I did go wired would I have 100% signal strength at all times? The only reason this is an issue is because our home PC is connected to the router and is several rooms away from my room with the PS3. ;/

I’ve actually followed this tutorial before, so I know how to do most of this already. However, I have a few questions. First of all, where exactly to I obtain the necessary DNS Addresses? I can’t find that information in the post at all, and when I check the settings they are identical to that of my Default Router for whatever reason. The reason I ask is that after assigning the PS3 a new IP address, the internet connection test fails and says that it is a “DNS error”. Second, aside from just deciding on a particular IP for my PS3…ex: 10.0.0.XX is there any other steps I need to take? For example, on the router end? Also, when forwarding all of those ports, is it necessary to add a Server IP Address to the list of services as well?

Besides that, I’ll go ahead and follow the steps anyway just for the hell of it.

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Signal strength as it is referred to on the PS3 is for wireless connections. But to put it simply, yes you will always have 100% connection regardless because it is a hard wired connection. :bgrin: Since you are hard-wired, your signal strength will
never go down.

Pretty easy to get the DNS settings:bgrin:

Try this. Change your PS3 to obtain IP address automatically. After you have done this, you should be able to look at your internet connection settings on your PS3 and see what the PS3 has for the Primary and Secondary DNS entries, as well as the IP Address assigned. Write those down, and then change it back to obtain an IP address manually on your PS3, and just enter those values in that you wrote down when you go through the steps to enter in the IP address, and the 2 DNS entries.

You shouldn’t have to do anything else on the router end, other than make sure that you forwarded the right ports and have entered in the PS3’s IP address as the machine to have the ports forwarded to.

Hope that this doesn’t sound too confusing. Hopefully this works for ya.

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I’m getting to the same issue you are.

I’ve played on a wireless connection for a year with no problems. My connection is strong, no background downloads,…but my SF4 matches have started to lag like crazy.

Any input or help on this?

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Okay, so after I’ve obtained the DNS entries, there is literally nothing I can do to improve my connection besides moving the router closer to my PS3?

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They sell range boosters or something like that to help boost the signal of your wireless router, but I haven’t messed with them. If your router has antennas, I’ve heard of people literally wrap their antennas with aluminum foil to boost the signal…lol…

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lol, i thought i had to when i first bought it, so i did when it first came up when i put the disc in ^^;